Dan Luria photos by Russ Rowland by Arney Rosenblat Through a stunningly rendered production and compelling performances, The Stone Witch movingly explores the price of greatness Simon Grindberg is a “great man” who is revered as one of the world’s most illustrious children’s writers and illustrators but his next anticipated masterpiece is…
Harry Clarke: Bill Crudup Photo: Carol Rosegg By Fern Siegel Identity is fertile ground for drama, but disassociation kicks it up a notch. Or as our narrator explains: “I’ve gotten on a ride I can’t get off.” And it’s a wild one. The narrator is Billy Crudup — and for 80 minutes at…
Billie Piper Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger By Arney Rosenblat With every beat of Her heart she and the audience slip further into searing despair as her desire to be a mother and have a child of her own unravels into an unfulfilled dream, which leaves the audience as wounded as Billie Piper, who…
Christopher Green by Edward Medina An old woman sits quietly in a chair. Her chair is one of many in a circle. She sits amongst a group of fellow addicts that are in need of confession. Admissions and revelations begin spewing forth until she decides it’s her turn. She then tells the story…
Eisna Davis,Zach Grenier, Aya Cash by Deirdre Donovan An idealistic freshman congresswoman attempts to clean-up what’s wrong in Washington. It’s time for Sydney Millsap (Eisna Davis) to press the flesh at her fundraiser at the swanky Four Seasons resort in Vail, Colorado. But the neophyte congresswoman from Dallas hasn’t left her hotel…
Sturgis Warner, Jo Mei, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Sorab Wadia, Steven Skybell By Ron Cohen Babette’s Feast, a short story by Isak Dinesen, was famously transformed into an elegiac Danish movie in 1987, winning an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Now, the tale has been transformed once again into a pleasurable…
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…
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…