Michael Moore (© Joan Marcus) by Julia Polinsky Regardless of what you think of his opinions, Michael Moore can really tell a story that touches the heart. If you thought that The Terms of My Surrender would be all politics, politics, politics and no heart, think again. From the moment he enters…
Photos by Julieta Cervantes By Ron Cohen First published nearly seven decades ago, George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian dystopia, 1984, can still chill your bones with its depiction of things that may come – and may have already arrived on our doorstep: the dumbing-down and mechanization of language; evocation of mass…
By Ron Cohen Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room is a crazy quilt of familial attachments and tensions, deep sickness and the fulfilling nature of caring for one another. It’s threaded together with laughs, lots of them, softening the pain of its depictions of physical debilitation and mental instability. An off-Broadway hit in the early…
By Ron Cohen Since 1879, Nora Helmer, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, has been repeatedly slamming the door on her stultifying marriage, leaving behind household, husband and children. Now, in a sequel boldly written by Lucas Hnath and forthrightly entitled A Doll’s House, Part 2, it’s 15 years later, and…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Marc Miller How au courant, how up-to-the-minute Six Degrees of Separation seemed in 1990. John Guare’s serious comedy, based on a then-recent true incident that happened to two of his friends, served up a tumult of contemporary issues in its 90 tightly packed minutes: race; sex; rich vs….
Laura Linney as Regina Giddens and Cynthia Nixon as Birdie Hubbard photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Two actresses of top-drawer talent – Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon — command the stage, share top billing and even share roles in the latest Broadway revival of the American classic, The Little…
Jonathan Sayer, Greg Tannahill, Henry Lewis, Dave Hearn and Charlie Russell (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) By Eugene Paul If you’ve come to the Lyceum Theatre out of a disturbed sense of enjoying the sheer irony which impelled you to go to the theatre to see something called “The Play that Goes Wrong” because the title so…
Johanna Day as Tracey and Michelle Wilson as Cynthia photos by Joan Marcus. By Marc Miller If, like 65 million other Americans, you woke up last November 9 bewildered, aghast, and wondering how, how could this have happened, you are urged to make your way to Studio 54, where Lynn Nottage’s Sweat provides some…
by Deirdre Donovan Arthur Miller’s popularity certainly isn’t waning on Broadway. Just last season A View from the Bridge and The Crucible, both memorably directed by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, were hot tickets on the Great White Way. Now, The Price returns to Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre under Terry Kinney’s…
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…