Joe Assadourian (© Bella Muccari) Funny, skillful, and short, this monologue gives you more truths about the justice system in an hour than any cable drama gives you in a whole season. The Central Park Five, the group falsely arrested in 1989, spoke after the performance Joe Assadourian, writer and sole performer of The Bullpen was…
Photos by Carol Rosegg by Ethel Wynn The new show at The York Theatre Company, Texas in Paris, is “full of music but it’s not a musical,” and is “based on true events, but it’s not a documentary” as described by York’s Artistic Director Jim Morgan, in his witty-as-usual curtain speech. Texas in…
Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage Photo: Joan Marcus by Dierdre Donovan Small-screen stars Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling bring high-voltage to Ivan Turgenev’s Month in the Country at Classic Stage Company’s latest production. And those who want to see these luminaries up-close and personal now have their chance on this intimate stage in the…
Edgar with Misses DuvalPhoto by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Nevermore? Nevermore again, perhaps. And again. Poe’s swath is immense. And in this instance with this production once more bracing New York, twice as long, twice as lavish, twice as odd, twice as fantastical, Nevermore, the Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan…
R: Louis Dall’Ava (far left) and William Whitefield (pulled by sailors) in H.M.S. Pinafore Photo: Noah Strone by Deirdre Donovan H.M. S. Pinafore sailed into NYU’s Skirball Center in late December under the steady hand of Albert Bergeret., the founder and artistic Director of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP). Those who…
Ben Schnetzer, Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman and (standing) Raviv Ullman Photos: Monique Carboni by David Schultz A revival of playwright David Rabe’s Tony Award winning play Sticks and Bones (1971) may prove to be the most moving and gut wrenching play in New York City at the moment. This seriously demented twist on the…
Hugh Jackman as The Man in THE RIVER, a new play by Jes Butterworth, directed by Ian Rickson, at Circle in the Square Theater (50th Street between Broadway and Eight Avenue). © Richard Termine by David Schultz What can the typical theatergoer expect when seeing the new play entitled The River ? That’s presuming…
Joely Richardson stars in William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst, directed by Steve Cosson, at the Westside Theatre. (© Carol Rosegg) By Deirdre Donovan Joely Richardson brings 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson alive in her one-woman performance at the West End Theatre. William Luce’s one-woman play about the great American poet Emily Dickinson arrives at…
Dan Daily, Hannah Cabell and Richard Gallagher by Deirdre Donovan When you see the folks from the Salvation Army ringing their bells this year for donations to the poor, you just might muse upon Shaw’s young ambitious heroine Major Barbara, the titular character from George Bernard Shaw’s play of the same name. It is…
by Eugene Paul Sarah Ruhl, whose bewitching, off-beat plays, The Clean House and In The Next Room both produced by Lincoln Center, resulted in the commissioning of a new play by Ruhl, has responded at last despite a spate of other works that have taken her precious time. The Oldest Boy is that curious result,…