Manny Urena and cast Photo credit Russ Rowland by Deirdre Donovan True story of a Guatemalan teen in the immigration courts in the United States. Thanks to Jefffrey Solomon’s new docudrama De Novo, theatergoers can now get an insider’s look at what really happens in the immigration courts in the United…
Lucy DeVito, Paul Molnar, Max Crumm photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen For a play that seems compelled to spew lots of graphic sex talk, Hot Mess also dispenses a lot of charm. The script concerns the romance between Elanor, a female standup comic in Los Angeles, and Max, a one-time comic…
Kate Hamill and Jason O’Connell photos by James Leynse by Julia Polinsky It’s easy to go back and forth between liking Primary Stages’ production of Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice and absolutely loathing it. If you can take or leave the Austen novel, you may like this show better than if you…
Serena Berwin, Connie Castanzo, Maggie Metnick photos Mati Gelman By Arney Rosenblatt The disquiet, the need of a defining identity, and ultimately the gnawing desire for some kind of retribution when you are dispersed and displaced as “the Other” is the dilemma explored with satirical humor by emerging playwright Nathaniel Sam Shapiro…
Krystina Alabado Photos by Richard Termine By Eugene Paul Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk , pop music theater writing team for fifteen years – they did the book, music and lyrics for The Mad Ones – don’t give up. When, several years ago The Mad Ones, then known as The Unauthorized Autobiography of…
The cast of The Portuguese Kid, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, at New York City Center — Stage I. (© Richard Termine) By Eugene Paul Multi-award winner playwright/director John Patrick Shanley, happily still plying his trades, has generated a new comedy for the now venerable Manhattan Theatre Club guaranteed to stimulate the arteries even…
Christy Escobar And Maja Wampuszyc (Photo Credit Bill Coyle) By Edward Medina A poet died in New York City. It was an apparent suicide. As most things are in this situation there’s more to the story. Her lover was with her. What was to be a mutual offing had gone wrong. As her lesbian…
Michael Urie Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017 By David Schultz How can something seem both dated and au currant at the same time? This revised version of playwright Harvey Fierstein’s 1982 Tony Award Winning play accomplishes just that. With an original running time of four hours, this truncated version runs just about two hours…
Krysta Rodriguez in What We’re Up Against (c) Joan Marcus.jpg What We’re Up Against by Arney Rosenblat “What We’re Up Against” is a scorching and disturbingly timely tale about sexism and gender politics. It is set in a small architectural firm facing the challenge of how to fulfill a commission to expand a…
Wilson Bethel and Alex Mickiewicz star in Anna Ziegler’sThe Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre. (© Joan Marcus) By Eugene Paul Tim Mackabee’s stunningly consuming setting so dominates and abets Anna Ziegler’s metaphorically infused play, placing you deep in the tennis match of her take…