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By Eugene Paul Several years ago my neighbor called me and asked me if I would accompany her to the police station. It was late, dark, she was alone, a single mom raising her two sons. One of them was in some kind of trouble. Of course I went with her….
Photos by Maria Baranova By Eugene Paul Let’s say that the musical Be More Chill now playing to sold out houses at its Off-Broadway Pershing Square Signature Center moved to the Palace Theatre, 1743 seats on Broadway, and sold out there for a year. That’s 517,088 tickets. Let’s fantasize, let’s sell…
Stephen Payne, Josh Charles, Armie Hammer and Paul Schneider in Straight White Men at the Helen Hayes Theater, New York. Photo: Joan Marcus Straight White Men By Eugene Paul What in hell? Oh. Provocation. Getting us, the audience, off on the wrong foot with that yowling souped up caterwauling. And that curtain? Entirely…
Melissa Errico photos by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul Some years ago, a mysteriously wise lady of serious years told me that most assuredly in another life I had been a Chinese sage of equally mysterious wisdom. After she laid out her evidence I was not about to disagree. Famed lyricist, Alan Jay…
L-R: Warren Kelley, John Long, Phil Gillen, Rachel Botchan. Photo by Hunter Canning / @huntercanning. By Eugene Paul If you’re a theatergoer who, some time ago, discovered the cornucopia of offerings on Theatre Row, you’ve probably use the internet to find out what’s playing. I’m going to make you nervous. Even though…
By Eugene Paul The power of the Einstein aura proves once again unending Is Albert Einstein never out of the sphere of public awe, interest, challenge? Simultaneously with an heightened worldwide race to develop AI –artificial intelligence –all harkening back to the great man himself, is expanded interest in Einstein, the…
Amanda Lawrence, Andrew Garfield photos by Brinkoff Mogenburg By Eugene Paul In its finest presentation yet, Tony Kushner’s masterpiece, Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes spills its treasure over eight brief hours, before eager audiences most of whom were babes in arms when his great work – it really…
Máiréad Nesbitt and Rob Evan By Eugene Paul Rocktopia, which originated in Budapest eight years ago bills itself as a classical revolution, its logo a bust of Beethoven overlaid with an electric guitar, its stars Rob Evan, Chloe Lowery, Tony Vincent, Kimberly Nichole, Alyson Cambridge and Pat Monahan. That bust transforming electric…
Yosi Sokolsky and Ronit Asheri By Eugene Paul In what is almost a poetic echo of the long vanished Yiddish theatrical companies’ wanderings throughout Europe, the New Yiddish Rep has alit this time among its New York City rovings from modest to meager establishments in the rattletrap long time home of the Rattlestick…
Tammy (Lisa Howard) clicks with barkeep Brick (Eric Petersen) (© MATTHEW MURPHY) By Eugene Paul Director Christopher Ashley will be reveling in having two hits on Broadway at the same time, one from the heart, Come From Away, and one from Margaritaville. a great big confection,- make that an alcoholic confection – so…