Tommy Crawford, Christopher Sears. Photo by Carol Rosegg Only Yesterday By Ron Cohen How do you pull off a play about the Beatles – or at least two of the Beatles — without performing for whatever reason – licensing restriction, copyright prohibition, cost — any of the Beatles music? As in Only Yesterday, you…
Steve Ross in Love, Noel at Irish Rep Photo by Carol Rosegg Love, Noel: The Songs and Letters of Noel Coward by Deirdre Donovan The ghost of Noel Coward floated into the Irish Repertory Theater this summer and created quite an artistic stir, courtesy of cabaret veterans Steve Ross and KT Sullivan. The two…
Christopher Ryan Grant and Louis Cancelmi photos by Joan Marcus Coriolanus by Arney Rosenblat In Daniel Sullivan’s engaging production of William Shakespeare’s complex tragedy Coriolanus, he deftly explores the political pitfalls of the Democratic precept of power to the people through the rise and fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus who has the…
Marsha Mason, Lauren O’Leary & Brenda Meaney photos by Carol Rosegg Little Gem By Ron Cohen Three generations of women in a Dublin family tell their story with humor and heart in Elaine Murphy’s Little Gem, being given an admirable production by Irish Repertory Theatre and boasting a splendid performance by Marsha…
Domenica Feraud and Florencia Lozano photos by Jenny Anderson Rinse, Repeat By Ron Cohen Things are pretty tense at the Tellner household. Their 21-year-old daughter Rachel has just returned home after a four-month stay in a hospital battling the near-fatal effects of anorexia. Her return is actually a trial visit to see if…
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow By Ron Cohen The Prozorov sisters like to say “shit” and “fuck” a lot. Yes, they’re the same Prozorov women who inhabit Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters. But this time around they’re cutting up in Halley Feiffer’s adaptation of Chekhov’s masterpiece. It’s entitled Moscow Moscow Moscow…
The Rolling Stone By Fern Siegel In Uganda, where evangelical religion is married to homophobia, Dembe (Ato Blankson-Wood) goes looking for love in all the wrong places. Specifically, with Sam (Robert Gilbert), a charming Irish doctor, the son of a Ugandan woman. Sam is resolute in his passions, while Dembe is acutely aware of…
LaChanze, Jai’Len Christine Li Josey, Vita E. Cleveland, Elizabeth Teeter and Romelda Teron Benjamin Photo: Ahron R. Foster The Secret Life of Bees By Fern Siegel “Some folks are born on the wrong side of right,” Rosaleen (Saycon Sengbloh) explains to teenage Lily (Elizabeth Teeter), the white daughter of an abusive father….
Mateo Ferro in Working: The Musical at New York City Center Photo: Joan Marcus Working: The Musical by Deirdre Donovan The qualities that have made Studs Terkel’s Working a modern classic are all present in the current revival of Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso’s musical of the same name at New York City Center. The…
Maria Bilbao (as Gloria Estefan) Photos by John Vecchiolla On Your Feet By Edward Lieberman For its summer production WBT is cranking up the heat! Its 211th production is On Your Feet, the sizzling musical retelling of the career of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Cuban emigres who became the first crossover artists to hit…