Tannis Kowalchuk, Photo credit: Emily Hewitt by Julia Polinsky The minute you start tinkering with the Legend that is Shakespeare, you invite disagreement. The problem is: we don’t know much about Shakespeare. Existing documents include such things as birth, marriage, and death records, and, of course, his will, with the famous legacy: to…
Yosi Sokolsky and Ronit Asheri By Eugene Paul In what is almost a poetic echo of the long vanished Yiddish theatrical companies’ wanderings throughout Europe, the New Yiddish Rep has alit this time among its New York City rovings from modest to meager establishments in the rattletrap long time home of the Rattlestick…
The Pot of Broth: Colin Lane, David O’Hara, Clare O’Malley Photo: Carol Rosegg By Fern Siegel There is something primal and poetic in Three Small Masterpieces, at the Irish Rep. That’s thanks to the stellar writers — William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and J.M. Synge — who capture the pathos of the rural…
Barbara Garrick and Laurence Lau By Ron Cohen “The world I came from. It was a totally different culture,” declares the Boston banker Austin toward the end of A.R. Gurney’s Later Life. “All those…surrogates…breathing down your neck. Nurses. Cooks. Maids. Gardeners. Aunts and uncles. Parents, too, of course. And Godparents. Grandparents. Great-grandparents, for…
Crystal A. Dickinson, Chris Perfetti and Harriet Harris in “The Low Road.” By Eugene Paul A romping riot for the senses as well as your brain. A furtive, hulking brute (marvelous Kevin Chamberlin) leaves a baby in a basket on the familiar doorstep of Mrs. Prewitt (even more marvelous Harriet Harris) whose brothel…
Burke Moses (Arthur Vance) and Lenny Wolpe (Ned Newley) Photos by Matthew Murphy By David Schultz If you are currently feeling burnt out with the political insanity and circus that seems to be unraveling daily before our eyes…. turn off the cable news stations, at least for two and a half hours and sit through…
Chauncy Thomas and Spencer Sickmann photos by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul This is a heads-up: the St. Louis Actors’ Studio is presenting one of the best evenings in New York, three smashing one act plays consummately acted; you might have trouble getting tickets because it’s a short run in 59E59’s smallest theater, so be advised. Provocateur…
Robert Fairchild photo credit: Shirin Tinati by Arney Rosenblat An ambitious, visually beautiful attempt to transport an audience to another time and place. The Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein production reflects the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s executive artistic director Eve Wolf’s creative goal “to bring historical figures and works to the stage with…
Daniel Gerroll and Robin Abramson Shadowlands By Eugene Paul Playwright William Nicholson’s winningly romantic depiction of the love between lionized literary light C.S. Lewis and brave, brilliant poet Joy Gresham is being given a movingly enlightened revival in director Christa Scott-Reed’s keenly observed production, thanks to wonderful performances, particularly by Daniel…
Jihae Park Photo Credit:Max Gordon by R. Pikser This theatrical adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, “Sleep,” is a work of much collaboration: The adaptation is by Naomi Iizuka; The direction, as important as the acting, is by Ripe Time, a group that develops and presents new ensemble-based performance works, and its artistic director…