Cast of Wizard of Oz Photos by John Vecchioll by Eugene Paul There’s no need to ask if you’ve ever seen the 1939 movie of The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow”, her voice filled with chills and wonder, longing and pathos, all of us melting in surrender before her. …
Lily Balsen as Fatima, Jonathan Tindle as Oliver Davenport by Eugene Paul Alex Draper as Leo Katz, Tosca Giustini as Gabriella Pecs, Jonathan Tindle as Oliver Davenport Young, mysteriously excited Gabriella Pecs, (Tosca Giustini) has led worldly art historian Oliver Davenport (Jonathan Tindle) to an ancient ruin of a Romanesque church, begging him…
Photos by Jaqi Medlock. By R. Pikser Jack’s, the performance space in re-gentrifying Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, looks like it was once a garage. The tin-foil covered walls of the one room provide an intimate space for young performers to learn their craft, and the price is doable for the equally young audience members. This…
John Lithgow photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul After forty-one years, the Public Theater has brought a new production of King Lear to the Delacorte, crystal clear in its exposition, sweeping in its physical scope, aggravatingly complex as ever in it character development of Lear, ham handed in its painting of villains, and…
by Eugene Paul You could just tell: they smell it, they taste it, they’re so close…next stop, Broadway! Alexander Dodge’s smashing set is ready, David C. Woolard’s costumes are really Done, the hipped orchestra is ready, Carl Casella’s sound system already reaches all the way to Broadway. Daniel Goldfarb’s book has its lapses, yes,…
David Barlow as Hamlet and Robert Emmet Lunney as Claudius by Eugene Paul If you haven’t heard of Howard Barker, the playwright of Gertrude: The Cry, don’t fash yourself; millions in Great Britain, his home territory, are in the same condition of ignorance. However, if you were to mention his name in artistic circles…
Cast of Pump Boys and Dinettes photos by Joan Marcus By: Eric Grunin So far this season, the Encores! Off-Broadway project has given us Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick…Boom! and Randy Newman’s Faust. For the final presentation of their second season we have Pump Boys and Dinettes, at once the least ambitious and most fulfilled of…
Sarah Lemp, Mark Roberts, Matthew Pilieci Photos by Russ Rowland By Eugene Paul Enter at Forest Lawn, by Mark Roberts, is the second –and shorter but more vitriolic—play in The Gyre, the title that the Amoralists have given to their repertory play voyage of discovery of the vicious cycles we experience. It is hobbled…
Samantha Strelitz, Nicole Moore, Derek Ahonen, Kelley Swindall photographer Russ Rowland by Eugene Paul The Amoralists are presenting a two play repertory which they say explores “man’s vicious cycles”. The plays, The Qualification of Douglas Evans by Derek Ahonen, and Enter at Forest Lawn by Mark Roberts each feature the play’s author in…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo photos by Joan Marcus By: Eric Grunin Once upon a time in New York, a talented composer who wanted to use music to tell stories had a fair chance of making it happen. Once, because stable neighborhoods are healthy neighborhoods, rents were regulated to discourage speculators. Once, on the…