Joy Woods and Santino Fontana (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) I Can Get It For You Wholesale By Marc Miller If Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey Evans were to hop the 20th Century Limited from Chicago to New York and trek a few blocks up from Penn Station to the heart of the 1930s Garment District, you…
The Company. (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Amid Falling Walls By Julia Polinsky The Holocaust. Hardly are those words out, when they evoke the mental image: black and white photos of people passively lined up to get on to boxcars; living skeletons; ghettos as filthy and unwelcoming as prisons; concentration camps, chimneys belching…
Hershey Felder (Photo: Hershey Felder Presents) Monsieur Chopin By Julia Polinsky Monsieur Chopin, Hershey Felder’s marvelous one-man presentation now at 59E59, is such a delightful combination of music and storytelling, that it would be a faux pas to miss a moment. Felder has perfected the art of performing the lives of illustrious musicians…
Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Caroline Grogran (Photo: Ashley Garrett) Arcadia By Fern Siegel Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a lively meditation on the importance of “wanting to know” how the world operates – from carnal to artistic pleasures. The British playwright is famous for creating plays of intellectual vigor, and Arcadia, now off-Broadway at the West End Theater,…
Raffi Barsoumian and Mary Wiseman (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Translations By Fern Siegel British rule in Ireland has been long and contentious, and Ireland did not become a fully independent nation until 1949. But the colonial legacy left by its former rulers was pronounced, especially in the context of language. That point underscores…
John Turturro (Photo: Monique Carboni) Sabbath’s Theater Reviewed by David Schultz The first thing you hear as the lights dim are a couple in the throes of ecstatic sex. The final image at the end of this one act play is seeing 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath (John Turturro) naked as a jaybird swathed in…
Patrick Page (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain By Deirdre Donovan Those theatergoers who are searching for a show that is both intellectually stimulating and incredibly entertaining need look no further than All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain. Written and performed by Broadway…
Gene Gillette, Sara Haider, Joshua Echebiri (Photo: Todd Cerveris Photography) Partnership Reviewed by Marc Miller The Mint Theater Company appears unable to make up its mind these days: Theater Row or City Center? Theater Row or City Center? Its latest revival, Elizabeth Baker’s Partnership, switches back to Theater Row, but what never changes…
Alexis Fishman (Photo: Richard Rivera) Anne Being Frank Reviewed by Julia Polinsky The Diary of Anne Frank: who has not heard of it? Who doesn’t know the story of the hidden Jewish girl who memorably thought that people were good at heart, yet died in Bergen-Belsen? Who has not wondered what might have been? Well,…
Mary Beth Fisher and Bubba Weiler. (Photo: Liz Lauren) Swing State By Fern Siegel Sad, lonely, desperate people provide ample fodder for drama. That’s true for Swing State, now off-Broadway at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. Its four-person cast populates a small town in Wisconsin, where playwright Rebecca Gilman examines the tensions and traumas…