Laura Linney Photo by: Matthew Murphy My Name Is Lucy Barton By Fern Siegel Tony-nominated actress Laura Linney (The Little Foxes, Time Stands Still) can probably count on another nomination for her exquisite performance in My Name Is Lucy Barton, a solo play based on the Elizabeth Strout novel. As Lucy Brown recounts her nine-week…
Marissa Tomei Photo: Joan Marcus The Rose Tattoo By Fern Siegel “There is something wild in the air.” The phrase is uttered as The Rose Tattoo opens, a minor play in Tennessee Williams’ canon. The story arc is thin, and it’s hard to get overly engaged with the characters, though a sultry sense permeates…
Jim True-Frost, Cora Vander Broek, Ian Barford & Sally Murphy Linda Vista By Eugene Paul Playwright Tracy Letts and the Steppenwolf Company at their scathing best. Linda Vista, indeed. What’s so “Linda” about it? Okay, there’s more there than meets the eye. Sure, designer Todd Rosenthal runs a city silhouette…
(l-r) Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce Photo credit © Joan Marcus The Height Of The Storm By Ron Cohen Majestic performances illuminate the interplay of love, death and memory French playwright Florian Zeller creates compelling characters in mental disarray. In his plays previously mounted in New York, The Father took us with breathtaking…
Zawe Ashton ,Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Cox star Betrayal By Ron Cohen Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, which premiered in London in1978, is making its fourth stand on Broadway, and three superbly honed performances make clear there’s still plenty of juice to be squeezed from this minutely detailed saga of marital infidelity. The production, directed…
Sea Wall/A Life By Fern Siegel Tom Sturridge Photo: Richard Hubert Smith An intimate chamber piece now at the Hudson Theater, Sea Wall/A Life posits two men musing on life, death and love. But mostly, it’s about death. The double bill, by authors Simon Stephens (Sea Wall) and Nick Payne (A Life), embarks on…
photos Deen van Meer Frankie & Johnny In The Clair De Lune By Eugene Paul Full, glittering turnouts are greeting every performance of this extraordinary revival of dear old Terrence McNally’s beloved schmatte of a play. For cause. Previous incarnations have always treated it as a schmatte, and why not, it’s coarse,…
Photos by Julieta Cervantes Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus By Ron Cohen The corpses are piled high. They’re oozing blood and other bodily liquids. And yes, as you probably have heard, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus is indeed a comedy, quite a funny one. Titus Andronicus was one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, perhaps…
Tracy Letts, Annette Bening. Photo: Joan Marcus By Fern Siegel “What kind of a person are you? Don’t you live in the world?” an outraged Chris asks his cornered father. Welcome to the complicated arena of ethical anger and public responsibility that is Arthur Miller’s forte. The current revival of All My Sons…
Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow Photos: Julieta Cervantes Hillary and Clinton By Fern Siegel Hindsight is always 20-20. That’s especially true as history unfolds — and we see the consequences of presidential elections. But before the insidious manipulation of social media or the Mueller Report, the presidential election of 2008 proved a…