By Eugene Paul If you’re going to find yourself in a nursing home – oops – an adult living facility, who wouldn’t want to take over the whole, pleasant space we see if all you had to do was make yourself poisonous to anyone designated to share those desirable quarters in upscale…
Kristine Nielsen, Tom Phelan Photos: Joan Marcus by Michall Jeffers Every now and then a play comes along that’s so specific, people either love it or hate it. This season, we have HIR. Burning topics of the day are pushed to the extreme; the audience either roars with laughter, or sits in bewildered silence….
by R. Pikser In the early 1960s Martin Duberman culled historical records of both Blacks and whites. With this information, he wrote a play about the Black experience in the United States: In White America. His selection of materials and how he arranged them, made those records live. It must have been gratifying,…
by Eugene Paul Sixty plus Mattie (Susan Pellegrino) all adither, frightened delight on her face, waves ditherishly out the huge windows at someone, then skitters off. Seventy plus Norton (Ray Baker) comes down the front stairs, looks around, darts into the living room and climbs to his favorite spot up the library…
If you like neat, tidy plays that lay out everything in an easy to digest manner, with a comfortable resolution, don’t go to this play. If you relish seeing a play that strikes out for unknown territories, that disturbs and provokes in equal measure then make a beeline to the play in question. This wide-ranging…
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…
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…
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,…
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…