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Ellen Lauren, Will Bond Photos by Maria Baranova By Eugene Paul Playcrafter Jocelyn Clarke, heeding director Anne Bogart’s long held desire to craft the extraordinary John Cage’s actual expressed revelations and conclusions regarding time, space, hearing, seeing, sllence, sound has done his darnedest so successfully you actually think Will Bond, as HE…
By Eugene Paul The healthiest, most American, brightest, most uplifting, most joyous, most American, most captivating, most inspiring, most American, goodest show in town thrilling audiences to their shouting beings, isn’t American, it’s Canadian. Isn’t that a kick in the heart… And coming at a time when our political capital is so sore,…
Rocco Sisto, Aya Cash & Erik Lochtefeld photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Irony of ironies. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler are play crafters. The three of them generate ideas for a play, Bos and Thureen write, Butler steers the writing as much as the two authors and when…
MONIQUE CARBONI By Eugene Paul Everything old is ghoulishly new again, Everyman is now Everybody and the sting remains. Here begynneth a treatise how ye hye fader of heven sendeth dethe to somon every creature to come and gyve a counte of theyr lyves in the worlde, and is in maner of a…
Jennifer Ikeda, Molly Ranson, and Janie Dee photo by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul British star Janie Dee is Linda, stunning, successful, now 55. She wants it to mean something. Right off the bat, capturing the whirlwind success that Linda is and has become is the whirlwind setting by Walt…
by Eugene Paul Over the years, the venerable Palace Theatre has witnessed towering egos trumpeting their treasured arts within its gilded splendors making it the perfect setting for the current explosion now waging battle for dominance on its great stage between two huge egos: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Close, neither of…
L to R: RUPERT SIMONIAN as Jonah and SEAN GORMLEY as Otto in by Robert Holman at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row Photos: Davidawa Photography Jonah and Otto by Eugene Paul Designer Ann Beyersdorf’s captivatingly beautiful setting, a ruined, walled, English garden, is the secret haunt of silver haired Otto (splendid Sean…
Simon Green and David Shrubsole on piano Photos by Heidi Bohnenkamp, 2016 by Eugene Paul With almost a Cowardian flair and an almost Cowardian performer as his star, pianist, composer, lyricist David Shrubsole has created an intimate pastiche for star Simon Green, its full title, Life is for Living: Conversations with Coward, giving…
Ken Jennings and Melissa Errico photos by Carol Rosegg by Eugene Paul Just say Finian’s Rainbow and a glow begins to emit, surely a built in protection concocted by leprechauns, what with the biggest and best leprechaun ever to appear in any of the many reappearances of Finian’s Rainbow making his appearance in…
Christian Borle, Anthony Rosenthal, Stephanie J. Block photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Somewhere you’ve heard that Theatre is the collaboration and fusion of hearts, minds, talents, money, good intentions, love, hate, egos, wisdom, beauty, ugliness, foolishness, brutality, compassion, hindsight, foresight and joy. Sorrow, too. And once in a blue moon, everything works….