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by Eugene Paul Sixty plus Mattie (Susan Pellegrino) all adither, frightened delight on her face, waves ditherishly out the huge windows at someone, then skitters off. Seventy plus Norton (Ray Baker) comes down the front stairs, looks around, darts into the living room and climbs to his favorite spot up the library…
Robert Cuccioli as Mayer Rothschild by Eugene Paul In a rich and moving reworking of the well remembered Bock/Harnick musical, The Rothschilds, new ground has been plowed which gives book writer Sherman Yellen reason to make positive changes in his original book, the astounding story of that family, baring the bite that was carefully…
JOAN MARCUS by Eugene Paul Since we all know from long experience of Pinter plays that, with very few exceptions, we are gathered here to admire, not to enjoy, our role is pre-defined. How to make the admiration roll out differently is the task at hand for director Douglas Hodge and company and all…
Joey LePage and Jessica Dean star in Luke Landric Leonard and Peter Stopschinski’s Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, directed by Leonard for Monk Parrots at 59E59 Theaters. (© Maria Baranova) by Eugene Paul Frequently – too frequently – it is instructive that, in order to attempt to get a handle on what…
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) By Eugene Paul Weller Marin is a big, old crabass who likes to play cards but he’s such a short tempered, irascible son of a bitch always losing his temper and cussin’ up a storm that nobody in that old wreck of an Old…
Jordan Sobel (Billy), Bridget Gabbe (Jane), Jana Robbins (Alice), Richard Kline (Bill, Sr.). Credit: Chris Yacopino By Eugene Paul If you can possibly wiggle some bare ass into a comfort food comedy, you should do it and this, director Thomas Caruso accomplishes with ease as Bill Sr. (savvy Richard Kline) and…
Top Row: Rory Kulz Bottom Row (left to right): Thomas Jay Ryan, Jay Russell, and Daniel Jenkins Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul Graham Greene (such a dullish name for such a sharpish wit and observer) wrote a wicked little chronicle about a lady –say that artfully – who was sly, funny,…
Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Photos by Paul McCarthy by Eugene Paul An extremely rare theatrical happenstance is taking place at 59E59 Theaters: a star is aborning. A blazing star. If you pull yourself together and hasten, you may be one of the fortunate beings to witness, to experience this once in a lifetime zing. She’s exploding…
Sorcha Fox and Donal O’Kelly Photos by Pat Redmond by Eugene Paul Well, now, Irish charm, famous in song and story, does it again in the persons Donal O’Kelly and Sorcha Fox, two of the most endearing, beguiling, twist-round-your-little-finger Irish performers you’d ever have the pleasure to meet and if it wasn’t for the…
©Joan Marcus From left: Joe Paulik, Gabriel Brown and Maureen Anderman in ‘Love & Money’ by Eugene Paul There’s a slight chance that A.R. Gurney, playwright purveyor of things WASPy, is writing a parody of his own work on the world he’s made his own in so many of his plays, but don’t hold…