Joey LePage and Jessica Dean star in Luke Landric Leonard and Peter Stopschinski’s Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, directed by Leonard for Monk Parrots at 59E59 Theaters. (© Maria Baranova) by Eugene Paul Frequently – too frequently – it is instructive that, in order to attempt to get a handle on what…
Top Row: Rory Kulz Bottom Row (left to right): Thomas Jay Ryan, Jay Russell, and Daniel Jenkins Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul Graham Greene (such a dullish name for such a sharpish wit and observer) wrote a wicked little chronicle about a lady –say that artfully – who was sly, funny,…
Jordan Sobel (Billy), Bridget Gabbe (Jane), Jana Robbins (Alice), Richard Kline (Bill, Sr.). Credit: Chris Yacopino By Eugene Paul If you can possibly wiggle some bare ass into a comfort food comedy, you should do it and this, director Thomas Caruso accomplishes with ease as Bill Sr. (savvy Richard Kline) and…
by Deirdre Donovan Two of Strindberg’s late-career Chamber Plays are revived in a double-bill by the August Strindberg Repertory Theatre. Rejoice, Strindberg aficionados! During the month of October, the August Strindberg Repertory Theatre is presenting a pair of the master’s Chamber Plays, The Storm and Burnt House, in rotation at the Gene…
Carlotta Brentan as the ex-wife, R: Giulia Bisinella as the fiancee. Photo by Jonathan Slaff. by Deirdre Donovan Something old, something new. That old saw is quite apt for Mario Fratti’s double bill of one-acters at Theater for the New City. Fratti’s Wives is making its world premiere and his breakthrough The Academy…
By Nicholas Linnehan What is disability and how do we define it? These questions permeate Nicu Spoon’s production of Richard III, associate produced by Identity Theater Company. The premise: everyone is disabled, except for Richard. By turning the tables, these companies hope to re-invent how we think about disability. The production, directed by…
by Julia Polinsky Like a rough draft for a “good parts” version of Moonstruck, John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea tells us that True Love is possible, even for the less than perfect people among us. Well, in this production at Theater for the New City, maybe yes, maybe no….
Alexandra O’Daly and Nate Washburn Photo: © Jacob J. Goldberg Photography By Marc Miller The Metropolitan Playhouse is calling its 24th season the Season of Hope, and it’s off to a modestly hopeful start. Arthur Richman’s The Awful Truth, which showcased the great sophisticated comedienne Ina Claire for 144 performances in 1922, is best…
Emily Donohue, Linda Powell and Andrew Garman photos by Joan Marcus by Michall Jeffers What a joy it is to experience a play that forces us to think about what we really believe. I challenge any intelligent theater-goes to see The Christians, and then not want to discuss it at length. Is there a…
by Marc Miller The thing about The New Morality is, the morality’s so old. Remember when heroines used to spend three acts suspecting their husbands of infidelity, and if it were true, it would truly be the end of the world? No, you probably don’t, and to encounter Harold Chapin’s upper-class Brit twits taking…