Off-Broadway Review: “Log Cabin” at Playwright’s Horizons (Through Sunday...
Ezra’s (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) stories about his father’s reaction to the news that Ezra was marrying Chris (Phillip James Brannon) and then, later, that they were going to have a baby serve as bookends...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” at Irish Repertory...
Both upper-east-side resident Daisy Gamble (Melissa Errico) and psychiatrist Dr. Mark Bruckner (Stephen Bogardus) need clarity in their lives. Daisy lives in the Barbizon Hotel for Women and is...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Carmen Jones” Pulsates at Classic Stage Company
Because opera enthusiasts would be seduced by the music of Bizet and musical theater aficionados would savor a work that contained the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein ll, it seems only logical to combine...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Play That Goes Wrong” at the Lyceum Theatre Extends...
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: “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe” at The Duke on 42nd...
Margery Kempe was an English Christian Mystic during the 14th and 15th centuries who was tried for heresy multiple times but never convicted. During the late Middle Ages, the task of interpreting the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Teenage Dick” at the Public’s Shiva Theater
Playwright Mike Lew characterizes his play “Teenage Dick” as “vaguely from Richard III.” The protagonist of this engaging and quite dark play is high school junior Richard Gloucester (Gregg Mozgala)....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Pedro Pan” at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row
During the Fidel Castro regime, “Operation Pedro Pan” transported children fleeing the growing fears of Communist indoctrination in Cuba to the safety of the United States where some of the children...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Cyprus Avenue” at The Public’s LuEsther Hall
David Ireland’s “Cyprus Avenue” currently running at The Public’s LuEsther Hall sneaks up on the audience like a cat burglar armed with an AK-15 assault rifle. What one assumes will be lost is far less...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “School of Rock – The Musical” at the Winter Garden Theatre...
“What I set out to do was make an experimental musical theater. Broadway is a museum that’s not moving forward, and musical theater should reflect what and how we are now — our pop culture, our...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: PTP/NYC’s “Brecht on Brecht” at Atlantic Stage 2
“Brecht on Brecht” the theatrical collage of works by Bertolt Brecht first compiled by George Tabori in the early 1960s is appearing at Atlantic Stage 2 in repertory with “The Possibilities” and “The...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: National Yiddish Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” at...
There is considerable Jewish culture captured in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” the iconic musical that has won a respectable reputation in theater history. Since it first opened on Broadway in 1964...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Fire in Dreamland” at The Public’s Anspacher Theater
“There have been, and will be again, many destructions of [humankind] arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by...
View ArticlePreview: Tori Sampson’s “This Land Was Made” at the Vineyard Theatre
Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce casting for Vineyard Theatre’s Developmental Lab production of Tori Sampson’s THIS LAND WAS MADE, directed by Whitney White. Vineyard’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Skintight” at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and...
Thrown under the bus by her ex-husband Greg, a carping, selfish, completely self-centered Jodi Isaac (Idina Menzel) takes the red-eye from Los Angeles to New York City to “celebrate” her a self-assured...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Mary Page Marlowe” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater
Dreams. Daydreams. The dreamers write the scripts casting characters from their lives and casting themselves as the protagonists. The dreamers, write, cast, act in, and direct these phantasmagoric and...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Straight White Men” at The Hayes Theater
When entering The Hayes Theater to see “Straight White Men, the audience is bombarded by loud music – so loud, one cannot speak to one’s neighbor. Person in Charge 1 (more later) approaches to ask if...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Possibilities” and “The After-Dinner Joke” at...
PTP/NYC’s thirty-second season includes two plays by the company’s “usual suspects.” The double bill, currently running at Atlantic Stage 2, includes four of the ten short plays in Howard Barker’s 1987...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The House That Will Not Stand” Celebrates Freedom’s...
Beartrice Albans (a resolute and Machiavellian Lynda Gravátt) spent her life under the oppressive laws that governed people of color in the colony of Louisiana. Specifically, she was Lazare’s placée a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Sunset Village” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival
“Sunset Village,” the new play by Michael Presley Bobbitt, is having its premiere as part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y. The success of this show will certainly depend on...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Long Lost John: A Lennon Family Story” at the Broadway...
Currently running at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y, the new play entitled “Long Lost John: A Lennon Family Story” by Eddie Zareh examines the early childhood of John Lennon....
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