KK Moggie and Ted Koch Photo Credit: Marielle Solan By Ron Cohen The Gravedigger’s Lullaby sounds like it could be one of those Z-Grade horror flicks filling the multiplexes. It does have one genuinely horrific moment, but Jeff Talbott’s new drama is a thoughtful and articulate depiction of those subsisting on the bottom…
MONIQUE CARBONI By Eugene Paul Everything old is ghoulishly new again, Everyman is now Everybody and the sting remains. Here begynneth a treatise how ye hye fader of heven sendeth dethe to somon every creature to come and gyve a counte of theyr lyves in the worlde, and is in maner of a…
Jennifer Ikeda, Molly Ranson, and Janie Dee photo by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul British star Janie Dee is Linda, stunning, successful, now 55. She wants it to mean something. Right off the bat, capturing the whirlwind success that Linda is and has become is the whirlwind setting by Walt…
Jordan Lage as Richard and Chris Bauer as Charles photos by Doug hamilton By Ron Cohen Psychiatry, journalism, the law and the Old Testament all get knocked pretty hard in David Mamet’s The Penitent. Summing up the play’s general attitude early on, the protagonist declares, “Human nature is evil.” Mamet’s misanthropic leanings can…
By Ron Cohen Steven Levenson, who has apparently hit pay dirt with his book for the new Broadway hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, scores again with If I Forget, a rich family drama being given an exemplary Off-Broadway production by Roundabout Theatre Company. The play takes us deeply into the complexities of life…
L-R: John Epperson, Matthew Broderick, Jill Eikenberry, Annapurna Sriram, Larry Pine, Claudia Shear By Ron Cohen Playwright Wallace Shawn has no compunctions about letting his characters talk on and on and on… So, it’s fitting that his latest effort, being presented by The New Group, is entitled Evening at the Talk House. And…
l to r: Joanna Young, Karyn Quakenbush, Katy Blake, Anne Fraser Thomas The Bikinis By Ed Lieberman With almost perfect timing, the Westchester Broadway Theatre has mounted a production tailor made to counteract our (finally) winter weather. The Bikinis is a jukebox musical about a fictional 1960’s girls group, consisting of two sisters, a…
L to R: RUPERT SIMONIAN as Jonah and SEAN GORMLEY as Otto in by Robert Holman at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row Photos: Davidawa Photography Jonah and Otto by Eugene Paul Designer Ann Beyersdorf’s captivatingly beautiful setting, a ruined, walled, English garden, is the secret haunt of silver haired Otto (splendid Sean…
Geoff Sobelle in NYTW’s THE OBJECT LESSON, Photoa… Joan Marcus.jpg The Object Lesson By Ron Cohen Piles of props and a nimble raconteur make for a telling journey through the debris of living. “What the hell is going on here?” creator and performer Geoff Sobelle asks early on in his solo show The…
Kevin Meehan (left) and Jing Xu (right) Photo by Mark Garvin. by David Schultz The Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia has mounted a rapturous production of Annie Baker’s mysterious work. The entire cast is in perfect sync with this investigation into the magical universe that Ms. Baker has created. Theatergoers are enveloped in a…