Andrew Dawson in GOREY (c) Jenny Anderson. By David Schultz A more than passing interest and knowledge of this macabre illustrator would be helpful before attending this slim play. But writer-director Travis Russ infuses the piece with an obvious love and affection for this offbeat artist, so by the end of this 75-minute production…
A Review by Deirdre Donovan Actor-playwright Jack Fry returns to New York with his solo show that scratches beneath the skin of a famous physicist. Will the real Albert Einstein please stand up? That question may seem odd to ask today given that the famous physicist died over 60 years ago. But as actor-playwright…
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig photos by Chad Batka By Ron Cohen Conceptual director Sam Gold and cohorts take on William Shakespeare’s Othello with no holds barred in this hotly anticipated New York Theatre Workshop production. It’s a good, sometimes violent tussle, but the two who emerge indisputably victorious from this three-hour-plus fray…
Photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen “You have so much information, you want to say everything, it’s very hard to stick to the point.” So says Aaron Port, the writer who is both the narrator and central character in Richard Greenberg’s play, The Babylon Line, just as he is about to wrap things up….
photo by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan There are few plays that hold a mirror up to life with such intensity as Richard Nelson’s three-play cycle The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family. His third installment in the series, Women of a Certain Age, opened at the Public Theater (at the LuEsther…
Written by: Tom Schulman Directed and adapted by: John Doyle By Rachel Goddard Almost thirty years since Dead Poets Society inspired us to seize the day on the silver screen, director John Doyle (The Color Purple) takes Tom Schulman’s Academy Award winning script to the stage. Presented by Classic Stage Company, Dead Poets Society features…
Corey Stoll and Rachel Weisz Photo credit: Joan Marcus. by Eugene Paul We arrive in timely fashion at the hustle and bustle of the Public Theater, its snack bar front and center busily purveying whatevers, and to one side and another individual giving away tickets. Hmmm. Later, when we’ve thought about it, what’s additionally discomfiting is…
Jennifer Ikeda, Raymond Lee photos by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul With great gusto, ribaldry rampant, rollicking humor and a painfully savage message, playwright Qui Nguyen revisits the Vietnam War and its aftermath through the experiences of its war tossed victims, at least those tossed into the United States, and the picture…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Student-teacher relationships get a workout in Two Class Acts, the umbrella name for two one-acts by A. R. Gurney, being premiered in repertory at the Flea Theater. While esteemed playwright Gurney made his name as an incisive and bemused chronicler of the declining stature in…
Courtesy of Onassis Cultural Center New York. Photos by Beowulf Sheehan by Deirdre Donovan If you want to get a firm handle on Sophocles’ Antigone, look no further than Lena Kitsopoulou’s Antigone: Lonely Planet. Kitsopoulou wrote, directed, and performed in her new play, specially commissioned for the Antigone Now Festival at the Gallery at…