Off-Broadway Review: “The Light Years” at Playwrights Horizons
“You are not simply an electrician, you are illuminating the world!” claims one of the six characters in “The Light Years,” a pleasant, but less than fulfilling concoction now playing at Playwrights...
View ArticleBroadway News: “Hamilton” and the Rockefeller Foundation Welcome 1,300...
It was exhilarating watching thirteen hundred students from New York City public schools gather on Wednesday March 15th at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway for the continuation of an...
View ArticleBroadway Review: Roundabout’s “The Price” at the American Airlines Theater
The cast of four in Arthur Miller’s “The Price” is filled with glitter: Mark Ruffalo, who has shone primarily on film; Tony Shaloub, who has won and been nominated for awards in multiple mediums;...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Chess Match No. 5” at Abingdon Theatre Company’s June...
Now, we don’t want to say, “Where do we come in?” or, “Where do we go out?” Because we would like, I think not to leave, but to stay here, now that we’re here. – He There is nothing like watching...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Sundown, Yellow Moon” at the McGinn/Cazale (WP Theater)
At sundown, when objects lose their precise “black-and-white” identity, the yellow moon begins to assume the role of providing “light.” Moonlight is far more forgiving than sunlight – it is the light...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Bated Breath Theatre Company’s “Beneath the Gavel” at...
When one visits an art museum and stands in front of a painting – let us say Jeff Koons’s “Woman in Tub” – one reacts in one of perhaps three ways: the visitor “likes, just likes it” and snaps a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The View UpStairs” at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at...
“Forty years ago this place was a fabulously tacky gay bar with a life-sized cardboard cutout of nude Burt Reynolds hanging from the ceiling. It was a church. There was live music and dancing,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Picnic and Come Back, Little Sheba: William Inge in...
“Picnic and Come Back, Little Sheba: William Inge in Repertory” at Transport Group Theatre Company at the Gym at Judson leaves one longing for more William Inge and more Transport Group – perhaps a...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Sweat” Evaporates Quickly at Studio 54
“Sweat,” currently running on Broadway at Studio 54, seems to be a play about not what it is assumed to be about. It is not about post-election politics. It is not about the history of factory closings...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Glass Menagerie” at the Belasco Theatre
“The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams’ 1944 memory play, seems to have just left our stage … or is that my own memory playing games? In fact, Cherry Jones took on the iconic role of Amanda...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Miss Saigon” at the Broadway Theatre
The 2017 Broadway revival of “Miss Saigon” raises rich and deep enduring questions. Based on Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,” the mammoth musical has enjoyed decades of success – as has...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Emperor Jones” at Irish Repertory Theatre
“Ain’t a man’s talkin’ big what makes him big-long as he makes folks believe it? [Sure], I talks large when I ain’t got nothin’ to back it up, but I ain’t talkin’ wild just [the] same. I knows I kin...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Church & State” at New World Stages
Following the inauguration of the forty-fifth President of the United States, not a day goes by without listening to Members of Congress – from both sides of the aisle – airing their points of view on...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Daniel’s Husband” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre
“The thing was, I was really good at it. And I loved it. I just loved being able to . . . I don’t know . . . make someone more comfortable. Make some of their pain go away. And it wasn’t just because...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Gambler’s Guide to Dying” Grapples with Universal...
“And yet we have been here. And yet we remain. We remain in the genes of our children, everything we build and destroy, the people we touch, songs we sing, the stories we tell and leave behind. We echo...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Play That Goes Wrong” at the Lyceum Theatre
During the April 2, 2000 matinee performance of Julie Taymor’s “Green Bird” at the Cort Theatre, a flying wall accidently struck actor Reg. E. Cathey during a set change in the dark. This unexpected...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Angel and Echoes” Raises Enduring Questions at 59E59...
“For this is my connection, the community of humanity.” – Shamira in “Echoes” Afghanistan. Syria. Syrian refugees. Jihadism. Expansionism. Colonialism. Afghanistan. Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Which of...
View ArticlePreview: “The Hairdresser” Grapples with Realism at The Rossi Salon
Tony-nominated Patricia (Louise Lasser) is not buried up to her waist in sand like Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s 1961 “Happy Days. But the character does prattle on – as Winnie did to her husband Willie –...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Indecent” Shatters the Comfort of Safety at the Cort Theatre
Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” could not have opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre at a more auspicious time. During an increasingly frenzied discussion about what is and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Roundabout” at 59E59 Theaters
Traffic flows continuously around the “island” which is the roundabout better known as the Drawing Room of Lord Kettlewell’s (Brian Protheroe) British country estate. Things are not going well for the...
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