Cherry Jones as ‘Agnes’ photo by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Playwright Sarah Treem is just so good she ought to be a Broadway staple. “Oh, a Sarah Treem play? Let’s go.” More, she ought to be in every rep, every regional, every little theater in the land. She’s so good, she makes little…
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater by Eugene Paul In this city of miracles, something of a miracle is happening in Central Park and the adumbrations at the Delacorte are many. A. Performances continue to be free, an impossible dream for the dreamer, Joe Papp, a continuing benison to millions of visitors old and new,…
QURRAT ANN KADWANI By R. Pikser St. Luke’s Church, located across Eighth Avenue from the big Broadway houses is just barely off Broadway. The church has fitted its basement into an elegant theater space with comfortable chairs on risers and a small stage that still manages to have three wings. The tannish color…
L-R: Russell Dixon, Ben Porter, and Sarah Parks By Eugene Paul “How else can we hope to cram a life time of events into two or three hours?” asks playwright Alan Ayckbourn in his eloquently terse essay, “Time Was…”, a lovely little gift in the Ayckbourn Ensemble program that accompanies this greater gift, a…
Back L-R: Sarah Stanley, Kim Wall, and Bill Champion; Front: Elizabeth Boag By Eugene Paul Ah there, first off, we need once again to remind us that Alan Ayckbourn, noted Alan Ayckbourn is here with a passel of his plays. Not all seventy-eight, heaven forfend, no, just four, and of the four, two are…
by Deirdre Donovan cast of Heathers photos by Chad Batka Popularity is the name of the game in Heathers: the Musical, which is still running strong following its opening on March 31st at New World Stages. The titular Heathers—Heather Chandler, Heather McNamara, and Heather Duke— are champion put-you-downers who are determined to remain on…
Bill Champion and Kim Wall Photos by Andrew Higgens by Eugene Paul Sitting in front of me were two breathlessly beautiful, makeup free girls, the older one, at least sixteen, extravagantly overdressed, advising her younger companion from her copious notes. Students, I thought. How wise, how even brilliant of their teacher to have sent them…
l to r: Michelle Moughan (as Jane Banks), Leo Ash Evens (as Bert), Brandon Singel (as Michael Banks) and Lauren Blackman (as Mary Poppins) Photos by John Vecchiolla By Edward Lieberman Mary Poppins hitched a ride on the East Wind to Elmsford last week, and promised to stay until the wind changed. Which is a…
By Michall Jeffers Jan Maxwell is what’s known as “An Actor’s Actor;” there just doesn’t seem to be anything she can’t do. The City of Conversation revolves around her; she’s on stage nearly the whole time, and every scene concerns her character, Hester Ferris, in one way or another. Hester is the Hostess with the…
Eileen Rivera_Hubert Point Du-Jour photos by Paula Court by EUGENE PAUL There’s a grungy someone lying supine at the edge of the stage, nose in the air, ankles crossed, at ease in John McDermott’s vigorously suggestive, multileveled setting , suggestive of what, we are wondering until we are brought up short by the…