Devon Perry as Annie Oakley Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show has settled in Elmsford for Westchester Broadway Theatre’s year-end production, Annie Get Your Gun. Familiar real life characters, including Frank Butler, Buffalo Bill Cody, Pawnee Bill, Sitting Bull and the title character, Annie Oakley, inhabit the stage…
Photo by Evan Zimmerman By David Schultz The past year has proven to be extremely stressful with the new political regime in place. Every new day posits a new twilight zone mentality to disturb and unnerve the soul. What better time then to go back…. way back to the 1950’s…
Matt McGrath and Arnie Burton Photo credit Carol Rosegg By Ron Cohen In the category of plays dealing with the AIDS epidemic, Lonely Planet is notable for its rather blithe, fanciful ambience. The play, which was first produced in 1991 at the Northlight Theatre in Evanston, Illinois, and saw an Off-Broadway premiere in 1994,…
Deanna Dunagan & Peter Friedman photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Startlingly accomplished new playwright Max Posner is having his long gestated, lovingly autobiographical first major play being hijacked by the brilliant performance of Deanna Dunagan as his captivating grandmother sliding into dementia.That he as well as we lose sight of the…
ALEC LEYZER BURKO, GERA SANDLER Photos: Pedro Hernandez By Eugene Paul The New Yiddish Rep returns after Moshe Yassur’s distinguished production in Yiddish there of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with his earnest, underfed staging of Eugene Ionesco’s indigestible Rhinoceros, whose Yiddish translation – there are the necessary crutch of titles –…
Liza Colón-Zayas and Carrie Coon photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Be prepared to have your emotions shredded. Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane quietly pulls you into the life of its title character, a single mother caring for her chronically ill child, and never lets you go. And Herzog does this without any…
By Ron Cohen The story’s a little muddy, but director John Doyle and company still fill this trip to Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden with lots of happy sightseeing. Oscar- and Tony-winner Ellen Burstyn sits quietly on stage, atop a wardrobe trunk, a big book on her lap – presumably the collected works of…
By Eugene Paul Playwright Dan McCormick is having a valuable production of his play, The Violin, under splendidly sympathetic direction by Joseph Discher in an uncommonly atmospheric setting by Harry Feiner. Giovanni’s Tailor Shop. You can’t take your eyes off Gio’s musty, cluttered old tailor shop. Illuminating designer Harry Feiner has made…
Mark Shanahan (Walt Disney) and Stephen D’Ambrose (Igor Stravinsky)I Photo by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul Theater going is a joy unto itself, ramified by the thread of “Is this the one?” constantly running behind every visit even as each theater work has its separate world of creativity displayed for us to weigh,…
Kathleen Chalfant (© Joan Marcus) By Edward Medina No amount of pixie dust can make this emotionally laden Peter Pan take flight. Two time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee author Sarah Ruhl wrote For Peter Pan as a gift to her actress mother Kathleen Kehoe Ruhl who, in real life, joyously played…