Megan McQueen By R. Pikser Bernard Pomerance, the author of the critically acclaimed Elephant Man, drafted Spin Off in 2003 and revised it in 2006. Though Mr. Pomerance died a little over a year ago, the project of putting it on the stage continued without him and now it is being performed at…
Photos by Joan Marcus By David Schultz Playwright Craig Lucas (Small Tragedy, The Dying Gaul, Prelude to a Kiss) has quite a lot on his mind this time around. This modern variation on the biblical story of Job means to stir the heart and soul of the audience. For both believers and atheists…
Derek Smith, Raphael Nash Thompson, Karen Ziemba, Tom Hewitt, Lenny Wolpe, Kimberly Immanuel, Jeff Hiller, and Alison Fraser, Photo Credit CAROL ROSEGG by Deirdre Donovan Gingold Theatrical Group’s ambitious new production of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House takes the harlequinade and adds an original framing device that colors it with a World War…
John Edgar Barker (Charlie), left, Mykal Monroe (Elle), Hiram Delgado (Ronan) and Laura Ramadei (June) [Photos: Carol Rosegg] By Barry Bassis Agnes, unlike the 1985 Broadway hit Agnes of God, does not have a person named Agnes. Instead, Agnes is a hurricane that is about to strike the area of New York City where…
Shane O’Regan in Private Peaceful.(c) Ahron R. Foster Private Peaceful By Ron Cohen The senseless destruction and horrors of war – and in this particular case, World War I, the catastrophe erroneously labeled “the war to end all wars” — have been well documented. But when the focus is narrowed down to show…
Larry Bull, Chris Henry Coffey, Ted Deasy, Roderick Hill, and Janie Brookshire By Marc Miller Lillian Hellman herself wasn’t satisfied with Days to Come. “I wanted to say too much,” she later philosophized, and the Mint Theater Company’s revival of her early labor drama, a one-week flop in 1936, backs her up. As…
Andrus Nichols Arney Rosenblat Hurry and try to catch The Saintliness of Margery Kempe at the Duke before it closes August 26 to enjoy the memoir of a would-be reality star, Medieval style The Saintliness of Margery Kempe is based on the apparently incredible life of the 14th Century English mystic Margery Kempe…
Ian Lessiter photos by Carol Rosegg by Arney Rosenblat Pushkin is a compelling, true-to-life historical blank verse play imagined and implemented by the creative playwright Jonathan Leaf that will both fascinate and spur the researcher in you to find out more about the man who is known as the Father of modern Russian…
By Ron Cohen In The House that Will Not Stand, Marcus Gardley delves into one of the many perverse chapters in the insidious annals of slavery: the sale by France of the Louisiana Territory to the United States in the early 19th Century. It meant that the African-Americans living in New Orleans…
By David Schultz Actress Renee Taylor has brought back her one-woman show to her hometown. My Life on a Diet is based on her 1986 memoir about her endless trek through all manner of strange, quirky diet fads. Intermingled with her diet tips, an entire lifetime of struggling with her weight issues, her reminiscences…