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By Eugene Paul If you can ‘t get enough of Glenda Jackson, this is for you. Perhaps the most generous and rewarding moment in all of the current production of King Lear occurred at the giddily enthusiastic curtain call when a gracious Glenda Jackson gave an…
Fiddler On The Roof (In Yiddish) By Eugene Paul Full as ever of music, dancing, fun, ,laughter, love and heartbreak, a deeper theatrical delight than you imagined. Back in 1964 when Fiddler on the Roof first appeared on Broadway, the show was so successful it was able to command double the…
Nantucket Sleigh Ride at the Mitzi E, Newhouse, 150 W. 65th St. Nantucket Sleigh Ride By Eugene Paul There’s an artistic and philosophic argument going on in playwright John Guare’s Nantucket Sleigh Ride which is splashed all over the Mitzi Newhouse stage, up and down as well as sideways, and even back and forth in…
Photo by Joan Marcus The Cradle Will Rock By Eugene Paul The Cool, attractive, more an homage than a fiery presentation of Blitzstein’s original fury. There’s a story that, in 1937, when Kurt Weill saw The Cradle Will Rock, he is rumored to have said to a friend, “Have you seen my…
Cirque Du Soleil’s Luzia By Eugene Paul That great treat, fantastic Cirque du Soleil is back in New York as part of its North American tour under the brilliant white and gold Grand Chapiteau, a circus tent so big it not only hosts two thousand people as audience but also is a village…
Stephanie J Block in The Cher Show. Photograph: Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Three Chers for the Cher Show, Hip, Hip Hooray, Hip, Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray! Because that’s how many Chers it takes to play the phenomenon, scculpted, molded, and twenty-five years younger than the seventy-two she is inhabiting. She…
Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale photo by Jerry Cunningham By Eugene Paul John D’Agata, who had been praised for the concinnity of his work in bringing together the shit and light that is America ran into a stone wall when his essay on the consistently high suicide rate of Las Vegas…
LR: Leah Curney, James Patrick Nelson, Claire CurtisWard, Dominic Comperatore . Photo by Hunter Canning By Eugene Paul Yasmina Reza, whose plays Art and God of Carnage were huge hits in Paris and London and won themselves each a Tony in New York, returns for a second try with Life X 3 using the same silken translation by Christopher Hampton that did not go down well…
Christiani Pitts stars as Ann Darrow in King Kong, directed by Drew McOnie, at the Broadway Theatre. (© Joan Marcus) By Eugene Paul Though naïveté is hardly a New York Broadway thing, get ready to be naively amazed, enthralled, delighted, and even a bit frightened because King Kong is in town, the way he was supposed…
Photo Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Not very long ago if Jez Butterworth’s deeply enthralling, sold out hit play were to have arrived on these shores we might have looked at it as a trenchant, troubling example of the sins of hatreds handed down Irish generations, an aching chronicle foreign to this…