Biko Eisen-Martin, Michael Rishawn, and Kara Young in Table 17. Photo: Daniel J. Vasquez Table 17 By David Schultz Playwright Douglas Lyons gives this savvy modern-day update of a rom-com unexpected dimension and heft. In a mere 80 minutes, and with a superb three-member cast, Table 17 dissects a fractured romantic relationship with precision. With…
Chesney Mitchell and John Collins (Photo: Russ Rowland) It’s Not What It Looks Like By Deirdre Donovan With the dog days of summer settling in, it’s refreshing to visit John Collins’ thoughtful two-hander, It’s Not What It Looks Like at the SoHo Playhouse, the winner of its 2023 Lighthouse Series. Directed by Vincent DeGeorge,…
Ana Villafañe, Holland Taylor (Photo: Daniel Rader) N/A By Deirdre Donovan Who’s afraid of the political machine? Not Mario Correa. In his new play, N/A, directed by Diane Paulus and inspired by real people and events, he crafts two tough-as-nails congresswomen: N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever…
Dan Luria, Patty McCormack (Photo by Russ Rowland) Just Another Day By Julia Polinsky A gentle, sadly sweet cross between Waiting for Godot and many another older-person-family-drama, Dan Lauria‘s Just Another Day presents two characters, Man (Luria) and Woman (Patty McCormack), on a perfectly lovely park bench with a nicely pretty streetlamp and a gently…
The company of The Comedy of Errors (Photo: Peter Cooper) The Comedy of Errors By Deirdre Donovan The Mobile Unit’s bilingual musical adaptation of The Comedy of Errors has been taken out of mothballs from last summer’s staging and is traveling to the city’s parks throughout the five boroughs. Directed and choreographed by Rebecca Martínez,…
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…