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Journalist Deirdre Donovan has written for the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, among others. Her theater writing has been published in The Brooklyn Paper, Our Town, West Side Spirit, Curtainup, Theaterscene, and Offoffonline.
Madison Ferris, Sally Field, and Joe Mantello (PHOTOs: JULIETA CERVANTES) by Deirdre Donovan The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’ gentlest play. But with Sam Gold at the helm, it gets quality of a Midwest prairie stretching into an unknown horizon. Whether you like it or not will depend much on your…
Tony Yazbeck Steven Reineke Caissie Levy photo by Richard Termine by Deirdre Donovan and Jeanne Lieberman The temperatures dipped below the freezing mark on March 10th. But that didn’t stop New Yorkers from crowding into Carnegie Hall to listen to the New York Pops kick off their 2017 season with terrific gems from the…
by Deirdre Donovan Tracy Letts’ Man From Nebraska is the opposite of a feel-good theater experience. But any theatergoer who misses the current mounting of Letts’ 2003 play at Second Stage Theatre, deftly directed by David Cromer, will be the poorer. This play is in the vein of many other Letts’ works (think…
L to R: Matthew Scott, Rebecca Luker, Nikki Renée Daniels, Allison Blackwell, Lewis Cleale Photo credit: Richard Termine By Deirdre Donovan The 92nd Street Y “Lyrics & Lyricists” program recently presented “Let’s Misbehave,” a whirlwind tour of the art and life of the great American songwriter Cole Porter. Written and hosted by…
Marie Mullen as Mag Folan and Aisling O’Sullivan as Maureen Folan Photo Credit:Richard Termine by Deirdre Donovan A bit of Grand Guignol to start off the New Year? Admirers of Martin McDonagh now have a chance to see a revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane at The Brooklyn Academy of…
by Deirdre Donovan Savion Glover needs no introduction. On a 5-foot by 8-foot stage at the Blue Note Jazz Club, Glover furiously tapped and tore up the boards with his famous “hitting” technique for an hour plus change. No rangy movements were possible on the tiny raised wooden platform. But the legendary…
A Review by Deirdre Donovan Actor-playwright Jack Fry returns to New York with his solo show that scratches beneath the skin of a famous physicist. Will the real Albert Einstein please stand up? That question may seem odd to ask today given that the famous physicist died over 60 years ago. But as actor-playwright…
Top to Bottom) Matthew Wages, Sarah Caldwell Smith, Stephen Quint , Cáitlín Burke and David Macaluso by Deirdre Donovan Well, chalk one up for the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players! The company has pulled off a Herculean feat by retooling The Mikado and turning it into a work that embraces all ethnic…
Colonel Tewfiq Zakaria, forefront (Tony Shalhoub) (photo credit Ahron Foster) by Deirdre Donovan Weary of the razzle-dazzle and special effects that go along with most Broadway musicals? Well, The Band’s Visit, which opened Off Broadway on December 8th at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, might be the best antidote to that…
Will Eno and Tracy Letts photo by Nancy Carmpton by Deirdre Donovan What’s up with Tracy Letts nowadays? In two words, a lot. His latest play, Mary Page Marlowe, premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago earlier this year and a revival of his 2003 play, Man from Nebraska, settles in at…