by Marc Miller The thing about The New Morality is, the morality’s so old. Remember when heroines used to spend three acts suspecting their husbands of infidelity, and if it were true, it would truly be the end of the world? No, you probably don’t, and to encounter Harold Chapin’s upper-class Brit twits taking…
Emily Donohue, Linda Powell and Andrew Garman photos by Joan Marcus by Michall Jeffers What a joy it is to experience a play that forces us to think about what we really believe. I challenge any intelligent theater-goes to see The Christians, and then not want to discuss it at length. Is there a…
Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Photos by Paul McCarthy by Eugene Paul An extremely rare theatrical happenstance is taking place at 59E59 Theaters: a star is aborning. A blazing star. If you pull yourself together and hasten, you may be one of the fortunate beings to witness, to experience this once in a lifetime zing. She’s exploding…
Jack DiFalco, Zane Pais photo credit Monique Carboni By David Schultz Reprehensible, creepy, intriguing, extremely poorly acted, unintelligible at times, oddly paced, and stomach churning. This newly revised play written by Philip Ridley does have some interesting ideas buried deep within its bowels. But the sheer unpleasantness of sitting through this miasma of pointlessness…
Sorcha Fox and Donal O’Kelly Photos by Pat Redmond by Eugene Paul Well, now, Irish charm, famous in song and story, does it again in the persons Donal O’Kelly and Sorcha Fox, two of the most endearing, beguiling, twist-round-your-little-finger Irish performers you’d ever have the pleasure to meet and if it wasn’t for the…
©Joan Marcus From left: Joe Paulik, Gabriel Brown and Maureen Anderman in ‘Love & Money’ by Eugene Paul There’s a slight chance that A.R. Gurney, playwright purveyor of things WASPy, is writing a parody of his own work on the world he’s made his own in so many of his plays, but don’t hold…
Darien Crago (Ginger Rogers) and Jeremy Benton (Fred Astaire). Photos by John Vecchiolla by Eugene Paul If you were ungallant enough to compare the star original, Ginger Rogers, to her enactor, Darien Crago, star of the current bio-musical Backwards in High Heels, you’d end up with our silver screen favorite winning big in the…
By Parker Sargent David Auxier has penned a musical called The Engaygement, that keeps with the tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan (clearly his greatest influences), but brings their style of humor and pathos into the twenty-first century. With a cast of only six performers, Auxier has found a way to tell a big story…
Patrick Page, Kate Burton, Hamish Linklater, and Teagle F. Bougere Photo by Carol Rosegg By Michall Jeffers Cymbeline is not a great play. In fact, it’s not even a particularly good one. So, lucky for Central Park theater goers, director Daniel Sullivan has taken a tongue-in-cheek approach, and turned this perennial Shakespeare also-ran into…
Marc de la Cruz, Zoe Wilson photos by Carol Rosegg by Eugene Paul A potentially fascinating retelling of the life of extraordinary Helen Keller. Eighty-five years ago, Helen Keller, in her full fame, wrote an essay she entitled “Three Days to See” in which she imagined three exceptional days during which she would actually see…