Robert Fairchild photo credit: Shirin Tinati by Arney Rosenblat An ambitious, visually beautiful attempt to transport an audience to another time and place. The Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein production reflects the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s executive artistic director Eve Wolf’s creative goal “to bring historical figures and works to the stage with…
Daniel Gerroll and Robin Abramson Shadowlands By Eugene Paul Playwright William Nicholson’s winningly romantic depiction of the love between lionized literary light C.S. Lewis and brave, brilliant poet Joy Gresham is being given a movingly enlightened revival in director Christa Scott-Reed’s keenly observed production, thanks to wonderful performances, particularly by Daniel…
Manny Urena and cast Photo credit Russ Rowland by Deirdre Donovan True story of a Guatemalan teen in the immigration courts in the United States. Thanks to Jefffrey Solomon’s new docudrama De Novo, theatergoers can now get an insider’s look at what really happens in the immigration courts in the United…
Jihae Park Photo Credit:Max Gordon by R. Pikser This theatrical adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, “Sleep,” is a work of much collaboration: The adaptation is by Naomi Iizuka; The direction, as important as the acting, is by Ripe Time, a group that develops and presents new ensemble-based performance works, and its artistic director…
Lucy DeVito, Paul Molnar, Max Crumm photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen For a play that seems compelled to spew lots of graphic sex talk, Hot Mess also dispenses a lot of charm. The script concerns the romance between Elanor, a female standup comic in Los Angeles, and Max, a one-time comic…
Kate Hamill and Jason O’Connell photos by James Leynse by Julia Polinsky It’s easy to go back and forth between liking Primary Stages’ production of Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice and absolutely loathing it. If you can take or leave the Austen novel, you may like this show better than if you…
Krystina Alabado Photos by Richard Termine By Eugene Paul Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk , pop music theater writing team for fifteen years – they did the book, music and lyrics for The Mad Ones – don’t give up. When, several years ago The Mad Ones, then known as The Unauthorized Autobiography of…
Serena Berwin, Connie Castanzo, Maggie Metnick photos Mati Gelman By Arney Rosenblatt The disquiet, the need of a defining identity, and ultimately the gnawing desire for some kind of retribution when you are dispersed and displaced as “the Other” is the dilemma explored with satirical humor by emerging playwright Nathaniel Sam Shapiro…
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…
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…