Madison Ferris, Sally Field, and Joe Mantello (PHOTOs: JULIETA CERVANTES) by Deirdre Donovan The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’ gentlest play. But with Sam Gold at the helm, it gets quality of a Midwest prairie stretching into an unknown horizon. Whether you like it or not will depend much on your…
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,…
Sas Goldberg, Gideon Glick, and Rebecca Naomi Jones photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen “I’m almost twenty-nine years old and no one has ever told me they love me. That’s like a problem, isn’t it?” says Jordan Berman, the hero of Joshua Harmon’s angst-ridden comedy, Significant Other, which has come to Broadway…
by Deirdre Donovan Tracy Letts’ Man From Nebraska is the opposite of a feel-good theater experience. But any theatergoer who misses the current mounting of Letts’ 2003 play at Second Stage Theatre, deftly directed by David Cromer, will be the poorer. This play is in the vein of many other Letts’ works (think…
Annaleigh Ashford and Jake Gyllenhaal Photos Credit Matthew Murphy Sunday in the Park with George By Jeanne Lieberman They bill it as a “Special Event” maybe because it is the first production in Broadway’s oldest theater, the painstakingly re- renovated 100 year old Hudson Theater. Its muted atmosphere a strange foil for a…
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…
Joan Marcus From left, John Douglas Thompson, Michael Potts, Anthony Chisholm and Brandon J. Dirden By Ron Cohen One of the first things that may strike you in watching Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s lovingly directed production of Jitney is the joy his company of nine actors seems to bring on stage in performing August Wilson’s…
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh (JOAN MARCUS/©2016 JOAN MARCUS) By Ron Cohen Libidos run amok, fueled by a flood tide of wine and vodka, in Sydney Theatre Company’s luminous production of The Present. But before all that sexuality breaks loose, there’s plenty of talk…talk that often grabs the intellect and plucks at the…
Photo by Joan Marcus, 2016 by Julia Polinsky With In Transit, director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall has worked theater magic. Marshall’s clear and accomplished direction transcends the expectations of much ensemble theater, which often blend into mush; this one leaves one indelible image after another. In Transit features a beatbox/vocal percussionist (Chesney Snow)…
A Review by Deirdre Donovan At the end of David Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, the titular comet descends from the flies and comes into twinkling view at center stage at the Imperial Theatre. It’s a stunning spectacle that is matched in grandeur only by the whole emotional impact of this…