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…
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…
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 Deirdre Donovan Chekhov is always a tough go on Broadway. But you must admire the British director Simon Godwin, who’s at the helm of the Roundabout’s new production of The Cherry Orchard (at the American Airlines Theatre), for his courage in staging the Russian master’s last play. But in spite of Godwin’s earnest…
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…
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney (Photo: Joan Marcus) By Ron Cohen The fun stuff at Oh, Hello on Broadway starts with the Playbill. As expected, it contains headshots of the show’s two creators and performers, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, but under their photos, are two much more recognizable guys you didn’t know…
photos by Robbie Jack By Ron Cohen If you ever had a hankering to journey through the exotic and fabled rainforests of Brazil, The Encounter, the profoundly stunning one-person show conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, may well change your mind. As a vicarious experience, it is surely a trip worth…
Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne Photos by Joan Marcus By Michall Jeffers Long Day’s Journey Into Night is aptly named. At nearly four hours long, this glimpse into the life of a highly dysfunctional family can take its toll. The Tyrones are a mess. James, the patriarch (Gabriel Byrne), is a second rate actor…
Frank Langella photos by Joan Marcus By Michall Jeffers If Frank Langella were a British actor, he’d be a Lord by now. There’s no one who’s better, both at comedy and tragedy. In The Father, he gets a chance to nimbly jump from one to the other, and the result is a production that…
Elizabeth Teeter as Betty Parriss, Saoirse Ronan as Abigail Williams and Tavi Gevinson as Mary Warren Production photos by Jan Versweyveld. by Rachel Goddard This 1953 historical drama takes on a whole new meaning when watched through the vision of Broadway director Ivo van Hove, fresh off of his Broadway directorial debut with…