The seagulls squawk and cry out overhead, drawing us down into the sunkissed scene of striped umbrellas and beach chairs. We bathe in its warm glow,...
“Definitely, a lot to unpack here,” says one soul to another as Crow’s Theatre‘s magnificently tuned-in production of The Master Plan, gets underway, diving deep and...
By Dennis W. Magic and music fill the air as Public Works presents the final production of the Delacorte Theatre 2023 Season with Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Not only that, we won’t...
The ladies of Michel Tremblay’s epic play, Les Belles-Soeurs, written in 1965 and translated intelligently by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco, rarely hold back, firing...
When the disco ball rises up high signaling that the party has begun, Here Lies Lovedances up strong and spectacularly, moving us, and all those souls...
“Context, darling,” the debonaire gentleman says to the lovely young woman floating around this lovely British period comedy giddy with love and romance. He, with that...
The heat and humidity of New York City settle onto my skin like a heavy coat made of despair as I make my way up to...
I haven’t stopped talking about The Doctor since I was lucky enough to see it in the West End of London a few years ago. It...
With a mystical donning of a strongly stated yellow hat, New York Theatre Workshop‘s dynamic and visually impressive play, The Half-God of Rainfall stomps forward, dribbling...
“Wildfowl“, is the name given, to self and to the idea. And it fits, in the strangest of all possible great hilarious ways. Along with the...
A quartet of mourners harmonizes gloriously, singing about a time to break down and a time to build. It’s a telling reformation, signaling that we are...
Drawn uptown (although I came down from Harlem where I’m dog-sitting for a few weeks) by the likes of two actors that I love to watch...
Andrew Lloyd Webber tried it with two different pond-jumping Cinderellas, bombing itself with the superficial. Rodgers and Hammerstein did it classic with sweet gusto a few...
I had no idea what I was walking into. Much like Alex Edelman’s wild encounter with a roomful of racists that is at the center of...
I was having a long conversation with a good friend about Shakespeare and the idea of running wild with different ideas and interpretations. My friend was...
Under the off-balanced arch of a tree, with the rotating moon hanging overhead lighting up the courtyard, Shakespearean magic is unleashed as perfectly as one could...
As television’s roadrunner beep-beep’s its way into our consciousness, forecasting coyote casualty, trauma, and pain inside the girls’ giggle, the tension hangs overhead like the fleshy...
“Always look on the bright side of life“, that’s what they sing, so enthusiastically to all of us, with automatic head-bobbings from one joyous side to...
“It smells of mortality,” this King Lear, as the Stratford Police Pipes and Drums parade us into the opening night of the Stratford Festival in beautiful...
Many told me that they didn’t quite understand what this play was trying to say or what its main focus was. What was its point of...
It all started back in the Summer of 1976, in Columbus, Ohio. “I didn’t like her child,” says one mother, layering a different level of disdain...
Whip-smart and as sharp as a bent tack, the Goodman Theatre production of Good Night, Oscar, written by Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife; War...
Truth be told, I am not an American, but a Canadian living in NYC, brought up on the television and film imagery that surrounds the fable...
When discussing the recent revival of LCT’s Camelot, my friend compared it (unkindly) to Bad Cinderella, saying that it might be worse than that much-maligned show...
Making its case strong and sharp, Prima Facie, the new tense and dynamic play written wisely by Suzie Miller (Sunset Strip; Dust) has landed firmly and...
