Eisna Davis,Zach Grenier, Aya Cash by Deirdre Donovan An idealistic freshman congresswoman attempts to clean-up what’s wrong in Washington. It’s time for Sydney Millsap (Eisna Davis) to press the flesh at her fundraiser at the swanky Four Seasons resort in Vail, Colorado. But the neophyte congresswoman from Dallas hasn’t left her hotel…
Tannis Kowalchuk, Photo credit: Emily Hewitt by Julia Polinsky The minute you start tinkering with the Legend that is Shakespeare, you invite disagreement. The problem is: we don’t know much about Shakespeare. Existing documents include such things as birth, marriage, and death records, and, of course, his will, with the famous legacy: to…
Yosi Sokolsky and Ronit Asheri By Eugene Paul In what is almost a poetic echo of the long vanished Yiddish theatrical companies’ wanderings throughout Europe, the New Yiddish Rep has alit this time among its New York City rovings from modest to meager establishments in the rattletrap long time home of the Rattlestick…
The Pot of Broth: Colin Lane, David O’Hara, Clare O’Malley Photo: Carol Rosegg By Fern Siegel There is something primal and poetic in Three Small Masterpieces, at the Irish Rep. That’s thanks to the stellar writers — William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and J.M. Synge — who capture the pathos of the rural…
Crystal A. Dickinson, Chris Perfetti and Harriet Harris in “The Low Road.” By Eugene Paul A romping riot for the senses as well as your brain. A furtive, hulking brute (marvelous Kevin Chamberlin) leaves a baby in a basket on the familiar doorstep of Mrs. Prewitt (even more marvelous Harriet Harris) whose brothel…
Barbara Garrick and Laurence Lau By Ron Cohen “The world I came from. It was a totally different culture,” declares the Boston banker Austin toward the end of A.R. Gurney’s Later Life. “All those…surrogates…breathing down your neck. Nurses. Cooks. Maids. Gardeners. Aunts and uncles. Parents, too, of course. And Godparents. Grandparents. Great-grandparents, for…
CREDIT: MONIQUE CARBONI Jennifer Allen, Florrie Bagel, Brandon Contreras, Sean Patrick Doyle, Brad Greer, Luke Grooms, Nathaniel Hackmann, Billy Hepfinger, Justin Keyes, Beth Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Loyacano, Terrence Mann, Tiffany Marin, Jill Paice, Will Swenson, Nichole Turner, Kim Steele. By David Schultz Wonder of wonders…this television parody of the Jerry Springer show still has something…
The Cast of A Chorus Line Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman For its 208th production, WBT is presenting one of the most celebrated shows of the Broadway canon: A Chorus Line, the ode to those unsung actors without whom no musical could survive: the gypsies. A Chorus Line opened off-Broadway at the…
Matthew Fairlee as Dromio of Syracuse and Josh Walden as Antipholus of Syracuse in a scene from “The Boys from Syracuse” (Photo credit: Milliron Studios Photography) By Eugene Paul Raffish. Rambunctious. Ridiculous. Deliberately. Gay. Very. Enjoyable. Very. A totally pro shambles. But if you think this the first drag take on Richard Rodgers’, Lorenz…
Burke Moses (Arthur Vance) and Lenny Wolpe (Ned Newley) Photos by Matthew Murphy By David Schultz If you are currently feeling burnt out with the political insanity and circus that seems to be unraveling daily before our eyes…. turn off the cable news stations, at least for two and a half hours and sit through…