Susannah Flood, Greg Keller (Photo: Chelcie Parry) Staff Meal By Julia Polinsky In Staff Meal, now at Playwrights Horizons, Abe Koogler wallows in the confusing banality of everything. You might wonder if author Koogler knew of the Douglas Adams’s novel, The Restaurant at The End of the Universe, and this play is in some ways…
Sheria Irving, Gabriel Ebert (Photo: Joan Marcus) Sally and Tom By Julia Polinsky The powerhouse that is Suzan Lori Parks has partnered with the Public Theater and director Steve H. Broadnax III to give us Sally and Tom. But this time, is Parks’ work about the history of American skin color politics, or about cutting a…
Cole Thompson, Paolo Montalban, Jo Ellen Pellman, Kennedy Kanagawa and Mike Cefalo. (Photo:Russ Rowland) White Rose By Fern Siegel It s easy to protest if your life isn t in danger. When it is, standing up to tyranny takes a special brand of courage. Such courage defined a group of real-life university students, led…
The Company. (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Amid Falling Walls By Julia Polinsky The Holocaust. Hardly are those words out, when they evoke the mental image: black and white photos of people passively lined up to get on to boxcars; living skeletons; ghettos as filthy and unwelcoming as prisons; concentration camps, chimneys belching…
Hershey Felder (Photo: Hershey Felder Presents) Monsieur Chopin By Julia Polinsky Monsieur Chopin, Hershey Felder’s marvelous one-man presentation now at 59E59, is such a delightful combination of music and storytelling, that it would be a faux pas to miss a moment. Felder has perfected the art of performing the lives of illustrious musicians…
Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Caroline Grogran (Photo: Ashley Garrett) Arcadia By Fern Siegel Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a lively meditation on the importance of “wanting to know” how the world operates – from carnal to artistic pleasures. The British playwright is famous for creating plays of intellectual vigor, and Arcadia, now off-Broadway at the West End Theater,…
John Turturro (Photo: Monique Carboni) Sabbath’s Theater Reviewed by David Schultz The first thing you hear as the lights dim are a couple in the throes of ecstatic sex. The final image at the end of this one act play is seeing 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath (John Turturro) naked as a jaybird swathed in…
Raffi Barsoumian and Mary Wiseman (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Translations By Fern Siegel British rule in Ireland has been long and contentious, and Ireland did not become a fully independent nation until 1949. But the colonial legacy left by its former rulers was pronounced, especially in the context of language. That point underscores…
Patrick Page (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain By Deirdre Donovan Those theatergoers who are searching for a show that is both intellectually stimulating and incredibly entertaining need look no further than All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain. Written and performed by Broadway…
Gene Gillette, Sara Haider, Joshua Echebiri (Photo: Todd Cerveris Photography) Partnership Reviewed by Marc Miller The Mint Theater Company appears unable to make up its mind these days: Theater Row or City Center? Theater Row or City Center? Its latest revival, Elizabeth Baker’s Partnership, switches back to Theater Row, but what never changes…