Marin Ireland and Susan Sarandon photos by Monique Carboni Happy Talk by Arney Rosenblat Happy Talk starring Susan Sarandon and Marin Ireland is a play where positivity goes seriously amuck Jesse Eisenberg’s new play being presented by The New Group at the Signature Center described as “hysterical and devastating” is so dark that…
Michael Stuhlbarg photos by Joan Marcus Socrates by Arney Rosenblat Socrates a philosopher, moralist, and so-called enemy of the people comes to life in Tim Blake Nelson’s brilliant prescient play at the Public Theater, where he prompts the viewer to question the strengths and weaknesses inherent in democratic rule As the Public’s …
Jimmy Ray Bennett photos by Shirin Tinati Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real & Imagined by Arney Rosenblat Though the more than 3,300 fairy tales spun by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen spurred wonder in children and adults around the world, being translated into over 125 languages, his own story was far removed…
Fiddler On The Roof (In Yiddish) By Eugene Paul Full as ever of music, dancing, fun, ,laughter, love and heartbreak, a deeper theatrical delight than you imagined. Back in 1964 when Fiddler on the Roof first appeared on Broadway, the show was so successful it was able to command double the…
Simon Williams, Lucy Fleming. Photo: Carol Rosegg Postings To The Moon By Fern Siegel Sometimes, the simplest presentation is the most effective. Postings To The Moon is a true story, set during World War II. It is tender, occasionally funny and quietly hypnotic. And it’s all told via letters. Now…
By R. Pikser The New Stage Theater, located in the partially finished basement of a hostel, complete with brightly painted steam pipes and outsized valves, provides a perfect entree to the theme of Electronic City by German playwright Falk Richter. Electronic City is a critique of the pervasive gig economy and resultant transient lives…
Maryann Plunkett and Ciaran O’Reilly Photo: Carol Rosegg Juno and the Paycock By Fern Siegel Politics is a hot topic this season — on and off-Broadway. Revolution — political and familial — is the subject of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, the second play in his Dublin trilogy, now at the…
(Left to right) Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale, and Adrian Lester in The Lehman Trilogy Photo: Julieta Cervantes The Lehman Trilogy by Deirdre Donovan For those history buffs that have been hankering for a theatrical event that…
Tiffany Villarin, Megan Hill Photo: Carol Rosegg Do You Feel Anger? By Fern Siegel The title is clearly a rhetorical question, but playwright Mara-Nelson-Greenberg posits it less as a response to abuse, and more to emphasize, however surreal, the wacky mind-set of the abuser. And it’s billed as a comedy. The play,…
Nantucket Sleigh Ride at the Mitzi E, Newhouse, 150 W. 65th St. Nantucket Sleigh Ride By Eugene Paul There’s an artistic and philosophic argument going on in playwright John Guare’s Nantucket Sleigh Ride which is splashed all over the Mitzi Newhouse stage, up and down as well as sideways, and even back and forth in…