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Corey Stoll and Rachel Weisz Photo credit: Joan Marcus. by Eugene Paul We arrive in timely fashion at the hustle and bustle of the Public Theater, its snack bar front and center busily purveying whatevers, and to one side and another individual giving away tickets. Hmmm. Later, when we’ve thought about it, what’s additionally discomfiting is…
George Salazar, Nick Blaemire, Ciara Renee photo by David Gersten By Eugene Paul Bearing unmistakable signs of Jonathan Larson’s original, passionate monologue depicting his delightfully awful struggle to do what he simply had to do: make words and music for the theater, Keen Company artistic director Jonathan Silverstein with the enormous help of David…
Jennifer Ikeda, Raymond Lee photos by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul With great gusto, ribaldry rampant, rollicking humor and a painfully savage message, playwright Qui Nguyen revisits the Vietnam War and its aftermath through the experiences of its war tossed victims, at least those tossed into the United States, and the picture…
By Eugene Paul If you want to know where The Front Page was written in 1927, it was down the road from Charlie and Helen MacArthur’s Nyack home, “Pretty Penny”, in little old Piermont, New York, at a no longer used girl’s school which he and Ben Hecht took over. And every day,…
By EUGENE PAUL Werner Heisenberg gave the world of quantum physics his Uncertainty Principle in 1927: the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known and vice versa. And even though the Heisenberg name is blazoned as the play’s title, that’s the last of…
Hershey Felder photo courtesy of Hershey Felder Presents By Eugene Paul Maybe consummate master of words William Shakespeare wondered if music be the food of love, but Leonard Bernstein, master of music knew that music is love. And God. And all. At least in Hershey Felder’s richly emotional, deeply moving solo drama in…
by Eugene Paul One upon a time a long time ago in 1923 there were fourteen Yiddish musicals on Second Avenue all playing simultaneously to packed houses. And among them, in the 2000 seat Second Avenue Theater was Di Goldene Kaleh which many of you would recognize as The Golden Bride because you can…
Declan Conlon, Robert Zawadzki and Patrick O’Kane By Eugene Paul The Irish have kept records, daily records, of their day to day struggles killing each other. If you want to look up who was killed on what day by what means you can do it. Pick a date significant to you and…
Anthony Goes and Brian Murray photos by Maria Baranova by Eugene Paul Simon is who James, (Anthony J. Goes) becomes when he’s channeling. Channelers are those rare creatures who fascinate us by their capacity to go into trance states in order to contact individuals who have lived other lives in the past. James had…
by Eugene Paul Alan Ayckbourn’s newest play, Hero’sWelcome, his 79th, in its premiere performance, is alternating in repertory with Confusions, Ayckbourn’s hit from forty years ago, during this, his sixth visit to 59E59 Theaters and I hope he makes it an even dozen visits. Or two dozen. Or more, now that he’s retired from…