Off-Broadway Review: “Seven Spots on the Sun” Grapples with Conscience at...
The brutality of war – any war – leaves its mark on the communities war leaves behind: on the land and on the people who inhabit the land. The soldiers in the fictional South American country featured...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau” at New York Theatre...
Playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau,” currently running in repertory at New York Theatre Workshop, are exquisitely crafted and skillfully performed explorations into the life...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Can You Forgive Her?” Flounders at the Vineyard Theatre
After presenting a season that included the engaging “This Day Forward” by Nicky Silver and the soaring “Kid Victory” by Greg Pierce and John Kander, the iconic Vineyard Theatre has chosen to present...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Six Degrees of Separation” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
With dramatic revivals, the question always becomes: is it too soon or is it too dated? Now, John Guare’s 1990 award- winning dark comedy, “Six Degrees of Separation,” has made its first return to...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Whirligig” at the Pershing Square Signature...
“And the wheel goes round and round./And the flame in our souls will never burn out./And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.” – Rosanne Cash, “Wheel” Under the brooding branches that overarch Derek...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Underground” at 59E59 Theaters
“And now here I am. Am I alone here? This is who we are. Isn’t this the fate of Generation Y (The Millennial Generation)?” – Claire When stepping onto or off from the underground (subway), riders are...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The End of Longing” at MCC Theater at the Lucille...
“The End of Longing,” now playing and extended by popular demand at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is yet another example of the evermore trending evidence that the use of star power will attract an...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Lesser America’s “In a Word” at Cherry Lane Theatre
If America – and the global community – has learned anything since January 20, 2017 it is the message that “words matter.” Words – spoken and left unspoken – play the central role in Lauren Yee’s “In a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Crusade of Connor Stephens” at the Jerry Orbach...
After a successful run at the 2016 Midtown International Theater Festival, “The Crusade of Connor Stephens” moves to the Off-Broadway stage at the Jerry Orbach Theater. There have been changes in this...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Bastard Jones” at the cell
There are numerous reasons to see “Bastard Jones,” the new musical now playing at the cell, but topping the list is to purely enjoy an evening of raucous fun. Vying for that acclaimed position would be...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Ice Factory Festival’s “Fernando” at New Ohio Theatre
Jamie Richards deftly directs Steven Haworth’s intriguing psychosexual farce “Fernando” at the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre. Mr. Haworth has written an engaging story about Zachariah Smythe...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Aran Islands” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s W. Scott...
At the suggestion of W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge visited the The Aran Islands (Inishmore, Inisheer, and Inishmaan) during a part of each year from 1898 until 1902. Yeats urged Synge to live...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “True North: A Concert of Canada” at the Pershing Square...
Soulpepper on 42nd Street, the ambitious month-long presentation by Canada’s highly acclaimed Soulpepper Theatre Company, features original productions of “Spoon River,” “Kim’s Convenience,” “Of Human...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Kim’s Convenience” at the Pershing Square Signature...
In a transformative eighty-five minutes, Appa (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) identifies “his story” in two very different ways. These diverse – and seemingly mutually exclusive stories – are the grit of Ins...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Of Human Bondage” at the Pershing Square Signature...
Soulpepper Theatre Company brings its Toronto production of “Of Human Bondage” to the Soulpepper on 42nd Festival. Vern Thiessen adapted W. Somerset Maugham’s novel for the stage – the first stage...
View ArticleReview: “Dylan Brody’s Driving Hollywood” at the PIT Underground
Until the time of reviewing this show, I had never been to the People’s Improv Theater during the past year that I’ve spent thus far living in New York. I’d heard many good things, and I’d even...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Spoon River” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s...
Upon entering Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre to view a new musical adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters’ 1915 “Spoon River Anthology,” we became a bit leery about the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Ice Factory’s “True Right” at the New Ohio Theatre
Originally devised by Bess and George, “True Right” is a scrappy and loose retelling of Sam Shepard’s tale of sibling rivalry “True West” without the grit and depth and requisite existential core of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “My Dear Watson” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
“My Dear Watson,” part of the New York Musical Festival 2017, is a musical testament to the genius of “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes (John Didonna) and the deep friendship between the iconic...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Matthew McConaughey Vs. The Devil” at the New York...
“Matthew McConaughey vs The Devil: An American Myth” is yet another version of the story based on the fictional character “Faust” here set in Hollywood and dealing with an unsuccessful actor who makes...
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