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…
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…
By Marc Miller So: Some New York show-biz sophisticates descend on a Midwestern town and interfere with the locals, in the process unsettling the high school student body and stirring up parent-child issues, while learning a few lessons about themselves. Bye Bye Birdie, right? Yes, and now it’s also The Prom, a new…
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…
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….
Todd Almond (center) and company Photo: Joan Marcus By Fern Siegel For many, Bob Dylan is the poet laureate of American longing. His lyrical expressions of yearning, heartbreak and loss have been recast as a moving new musical — Girl From The North Country — at The Public Theater. Set in 1934 in Duluth,…
What the Constitution Means to Me By Ron Cohen It could be described as a civics lesson disguised as a play…or vice versa. Or it could be called a personal family memoir, relating the years of domestic violence and disparagement endured by women, abuse and inequality tacitly supported or ignored by the Constitution….
Ahmed Aly Elsayed, Ethan Hova, Ben Schnetzer photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen You may not be enticed into becoming a snooker fan by The Nap, but you’ll probably enjoy the hubbub that surrounds the game in this British comedy, being given its Broadway premiere by Manhattan Theatre Company. The play is…
By Ron Cohen “No matter how much you loved how beautifully I might play the ingenue, it was always beneath me. It is beneath all women.” So declares the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt, as portrayed by the acclaimed English actress Janet McTeer in Bernhardt/Hamlet by the esteemed American playwright Theresa Rebeck. It’s…
Bonnie Milligan as Pamela (center) with Tanya Haglund, Samantha Pollino, Ari Groover and Amber Ardolino photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan You don’t have to know a lick about Elizabethan times or the American rock band the Go Go’s to enjoy the new jukebox musical Head Over Heels, which opened at the…