Alex Sharp with (from l.) Mercedes Herrero, Richard Hollis and Jocelyn Bioh. Photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul The play has not begun and already you are uneasy; the stage is a huge black box, even the raked floor is black, all walls and floor overlaid with a precise, white grid. Lighted bench…
Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane by Michall Jeffers The answer is Nathan Lane. The question is what’s the best reason to see It’s Only A Play. This nearly sold out smash hit is playing to full houses chocked with appreciative theater goers. Just as trumpeted, the laughs never stop. Director Jack O’Brien has done…
Kristine Nielsen, Rose Byrne, James Earl Jones photos by Joan Marcus by Michall Jeffers The year is 1936, deep in the Great Depression. But you’d never know it from the cheery attitude of the multi-generational Sycamore family in the current production of You Can’t Take It With You. Director Scott Ellis has taken this…
Photo by Carol Rosegg by Eugene Paul His name is Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and hers is Melissa Gardner. They’re rich, American bluebloods, A.R. Gurney’s names and identities for his two characters, but that’s as may be, because the instant Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy come on, that is it, that’s who they really…
Photographs by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Once upon a time a long time ago in 1973, when a fat, smug country called the U.S.A was being upended with riots and protests about a perfectly natural condition which they had finally legislated in 1964 called Civil Rights, a beautiful baby boy named Lesane…
Marisa Tomei and Michael C Hall Photos by Joan Marcus In spite of its misleading title, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses is a charming new play that is bound to tickle your funny bone and make you think twice about the people who live next door. Directed by Sam Gold, and featuring a top-notch cast,…
Daniel Radcliffe photos by Johan Persson The Cripple of Inishmaan By: Eric Grunin Let’s get the most important thing out of the way first: this is an excellent production of a very good play, and you should all go see it. Don’t be scared off by the tragic aspects, because in all likelihood you’ll…
Chris O’Dowd and James Franco in Of Mice and Men (photos by Richard Phibbs) OF MICE AND MEN by EUGENE PAUL If you’ve managed to keep up with the smoothly ongoing hype machine which has propelled James Franco into the front ranks of media stars you are also aware that New York City police…
By Michall Jeffers Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig (Joan Marcus) There’s no doubt about it; Neil Patrick Harris is a rock star. His fans are out in force for his stellar turn as Hedwig, a transplanted “girly boy” from East Berlin who’s had a tough life, including a botched sex change operation. The angry inch…
ALL THE WAY Reviewed by EUGENE PAUL Bryan Cranston as LBJ There’s a classical theatrical bromide been around for ages: “There are no small parts, there are only small players.” Total bull ca ca. I don’t know how many brilliant actors are walking the streets completely unappreciated because they’ve never been zapped by the Fickle…