Christy Escobar And Maja Wampuszyc (Photo Credit Bill Coyle) By Edward Medina A poet died in New York City. It was an apparent suicide. As most things are in this situation there’s more to the story. Her lover was with her. What was to be a mutual offing had gone wrong. As her lesbian…
The cast of The Portuguese Kid, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, at New York City Center — Stage I. (© Richard Termine) By Eugene Paul Multi-award winner playwright/director John Patrick Shanley, happily still plying his trades, has generated a new comedy for the now venerable Manhattan Theatre Club guaranteed to stimulate the arteries even…
Michael Urie Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017 By David Schultz How can something seem both dated and au currant at the same time? This revised version of playwright Harvey Fierstein’s 1982 Tony Award Winning play accomplishes just that. With an original running time of four hours, this truncated version runs just about two hours…
Krysta Rodriguez in What We’re Up Against (c) Joan Marcus.jpg What We’re Up Against by Arney Rosenblat “What We’re Up Against” is a scorching and disturbingly timely tale about sexism and gender politics. It is set in a small architectural firm facing the challenge of how to fulfill a commission to expand a…
Rupert Simonian, Ian Brodsky, Jack D.Martin photo Caylena Cahill By Marc Miller Theatre 80 St. Marks has been, over the years, a prominent off-Broadway house (it contained the original You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown), a revival cinema that flourished before VHS-DVD-streaming took over, and a very occasional way station for works-in-progress. Such a…
Wilson Bethel and Alex Mickiewicz star in Anna Ziegler’sThe Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre. (© Joan Marcus) By Eugene Paul Tim Mackabee’s stunningly consuming setting so dominates and abets Anna Ziegler’s metaphorically infused play, placing you deep in the tennis match of her take…
John Magaro photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Before it had the Delacorte Theater, before Hair, A Chorus Line and Hamilton, the New York Shakespeare Festival was in dire straits. And it’s that stressful period that Richard Nelson engrossingly targets in his new play Illyria, offering an affectionate portrait of the Festival’s founder…
Eden Malyn in STUFFED – photo by Jeremy Daniel Lauren Ann Brickman Marsha Stephanie Blake Lisa Lampanelli Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lauren Ann Brickman, Lisa Lampanelli, Eden Malyn photos by Jeremy Daniel by Julia Polinsky Lisa Lampanelli’s Stuffed opens on an aqua fantasy mid-century modern kitchen, dominated by a chained…
Greig Sargeant (center) and the company of Elevator Repair Service’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE, created by Elevator Repair Service and directed by John Collins, running at The Public Theater. Photo credit: Richard Termine By Ron Cohen With the backing of The Public Theater, Elevator Repair Service, one of New York’s most audacious theater companies –…
David Greenspan. Photo © Carol Rosegg by Deirdre Donovan David Greenspan’s marathon performance of Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act play Strange Interlude is a stunner. Greenspan not only performs all the roles in the dramatis personae, but he delivers every syllable in the text verbatim. Under the aegis of the Transport Group, and directed…