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…
John Magaro photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Before it had the Delacorte Theater, before Hair, A Chorus Line and Hamilton, the New York Shakespeare Festival was in dire straits. And it’s that stressful period that Richard Nelson engrossingly targets in his new play Illyria, offering an affectionate portrait of the Festival’s founder…
Eden Malyn in STUFFED – photo by Jeremy Daniel Lauren Ann Brickman Marsha Stephanie Blake Lisa Lampanelli Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lauren Ann Brickman, Lisa Lampanelli, Eden Malyn photos by Jeremy Daniel by Julia Polinsky Lisa Lampanelli’s Stuffed opens on an aqua fantasy mid-century modern kitchen, dominated by a chained…
Greig Sargeant (center) and the company of Elevator Repair Service’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE, created by Elevator Repair Service and directed by John Collins, running at The Public Theater. Photo credit: Richard Termine By Ron Cohen With the backing of The Public Theater, Elevator Repair Service, one of New York’s most audacious theater companies –…
David Greenspan. Photo © Carol Rosegg by Deirdre Donovan David Greenspan’s marathon performance of Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act play Strange Interlude is a stunner. Greenspan not only performs all the roles in the dramatis personae, but he delivers every syllable in the text verbatim. Under the aegis of the Transport Group, and directed…
Rachel Pickup phtos Carol Rosegg By Ron Cohen Years of Irish-English strife are compacted into one day in Brian Friel’s drama, The Home Place, and the Irish playwright’s sympathies extend to both sides of the fray. It makes for an absorbing if somewhat tempered look into the destructive nature of colonization and political repression,…
by Edward Medina Sharon is a basket case. She’s a New York City, Upper West Side psychoanalyst in need of her own New York City, Upper West Side psychiatrist. She’s off her meds. Has been for a while. She’s a recovering alcoholic. Desperately in need of a drink. Sharon’s barely keeping it together but she’s…
Photo by Evan Zimmerman By David Schultz The past year has proven to be extremely stressful with the new political regime in place. Every new day posits a new twilight zone mentality to disturb and unnerve the soul. What better time then to go back…. way back to the 1950’s…
Matt McGrath and Arnie Burton Photo credit Carol Rosegg By Ron Cohen In the category of plays dealing with the AIDS epidemic, Lonely Planet is notable for its rather blithe, fanciful ambience. The play, which was first produced in 1991 at the Northlight Theatre in Evanston, Illinois, and saw an Off-Broadway premiere in 1994,…
Deanna Dunagan & Peter Friedman photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Startlingly accomplished new playwright Max Posner is having his long gestated, lovingly autobiographical first major play being hijacked by the brilliant performance of Deanna Dunagan as his captivating grandmother sliding into dementia.That he as well as we lose sight of the…