By Rachel Goddard It’s no secret that in today’s times the media (as we so often like to call the all-powerful bearer of bad news) picks and chooses what events they want us to know about. Looking through history, this is not a new pattern. Stories go untold and widespread tragedies are forgotten,…
Brad Heberlee, Zoë Winters, Max Baker, Babak Tafti, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and Marcia DeBoni By David Schultz Last spring Ars Nova unveiled playwright Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds, playing at the tiny space with just 99 seats. Running for just over a month, this well received production came and went under the radar for…
by Eugene Paul One upon a time a long time ago in 1923 there were fourteen Yiddish musicals on Second Avenue all playing simultaneously to packed houses. And among them, in the 2000 seat Second Avenue Theater was Di Goldene Kaleh which many of you would recognize as The Golden Bride because you can…
photo by Gregory Castonzo, 2016 by Deirdre Donovan The smartest way to beat the heat this summer may be to tuck into a seat at the Gym (at Judson), where the Bedlam theater company is presenting an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Adapted by Kate Hamill, and directed by Eric Tucker,…
Ismenia Mendes, left, Andrew Burnap and John Glover Photo Credit: Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan Daniel Sullivan adds another feather to his cap by mounting Shakespeare’s most modern play at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Troilus and Cressida has won the difficult affection of critics over the years. And, with Daniel Sullivan’s…
Dominique Scott as Jerry Lee Lewis, John Michael Presney as Carl Perkins, Ari Mckay Wilford as Elvis Presley, and Sky Seals as Johnny Cash Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Long before the dream team known as the Traveling Wilburys (George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynn), there…
Santino Fontana and cast by Deirdre Donovan If you are a chronic rooter for the underdog, then God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater will be right up your alley. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s 1979 musical version of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel resurfaces at New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center series–and it couldn’t be fresher. …
Daniel Radcliffe and cast Photos by Joan Marcus Privacy by David Schultz Playwright James Graham and co-creator/director Josie Rourke have orchestrated a mesmerizing evening of theater. That is not to say that this play is typical in any ordinary way. The skeletal plot and outline of this work is just window dressing for the…
by Nicholas Linnehan “I love you but I hate your mental illness!” The harsh stigma around mental illness still plagues us today. How often have we heard someone say “I’m a little OCD when it comes to that? But for people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it’s a very different beast all…
Declan Conlon, Robert Zawadzki and Patrick O’Kane By Eugene Paul The Irish have kept records, daily records, of their day to day struggles killing each other. If you want to look up who was killed on what day by what means you can do it. Pick a date significant to you and…