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Photographs by: Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul With a vast, overpoweringly produced, literally awesome demonstration of theatrical brawn, the Sting machine has taken on Broadway, no holds barred. When was the last time you saw crowds outside the theatre dazzled by musicians from the show playing live under the marquee, the star, 63…
Jay Armstrong Johnson, Tony Yazbeck and Clyde Alves photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul The Lyric Theatre, once again the Lyric Theatre after having been through several other incarnations since it grew bigger and more beautiful, is launching its now British ownership with the best, sweetest version of that very American delight, On…
Phoebe Leonard, Larry Phillips, Peter Buck Dettman, Ryan Dusek by Eugene Paul Stephen Dowd, yes, THE famous Stephen Dowd, has just finished hanging his famous #28 shirt, expensively framed, on the wall of the shitty little apartment he is sharing with his two brothers, Paul the Grouch and Kevin the idiot. After all, he…
Alex Sharp with (from l.) Mercedes Herrero, Richard Hollis and Jocelyn Bioh. Photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul The play has not begun and already you are uneasy; the stage is a huge black box, even the raked floor is black, all walls and floor overlaid with a precise, white grid. Lighted bench…
Photo by Carol Rosegg by Eugene Paul His name is Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and hers is Melissa Gardner. They’re rich, American bluebloods, A.R. Gurney’s names and identities for his two characters, but that’s as may be, because the instant Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy come on, that is it, that’s who they really…
Cast of Wizard of Oz Photos by John Vecchioll by Eugene Paul There’s no need to ask if you’ve ever seen the 1939 movie of The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow”, her voice filled with chills and wonder, longing and pathos, all of us melting in surrender before her. …
John Lithgow photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul After forty-one years, the Public Theater has brought a new production of King Lear to the Delacorte, crystal clear in its exposition, sweeping in its physical scope, aggravatingly complex as ever in it character development of Lear, ham handed in its painting of villains, and…
Lily Balsen as Fatima, Jonathan Tindle as Oliver Davenport by Eugene Paul Alex Draper as Leo Katz, Tosca Giustini as Gabriella Pecs, Jonathan Tindle as Oliver Davenport Young, mysteriously excited Gabriella Pecs, (Tosca Giustini) has led worldly art historian Oliver Davenport (Jonathan Tindle) to an ancient ruin of a Romanesque church, begging him…
by Eugene Paul You could just tell: they smell it, they taste it, they’re so close…next stop, Broadway! Alexander Dodge’s smashing set is ready, David C. Woolard’s costumes are really Done, the hipped orchestra is ready, Carl Casella’s sound system already reaches all the way to Broadway. Daniel Goldfarb’s book has its lapses, yes,…
David Barlow as Hamlet and Robert Emmet Lunney as Claudius by Eugene Paul If you haven’t heard of Howard Barker, the playwright of Gertrude: The Cry, don’t fash yourself; millions in Great Britain, his home territory, are in the same condition of ignorance. However, if you were to mention his name in artistic circles…