Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Photos by Paul McCarthy by Eugene Paul An extremely rare theatrical happenstance is taking place at 59E59 Theaters: a star is aborning. A blazing star. If you pull yourself together and hasten, you may be one of the fortunate beings to witness, to experience this once in a lifetime zing. She’s exploding…
Jack DiFalco, Zane Pais photo credit Monique Carboni By David Schultz Reprehensible, creepy, intriguing, extremely poorly acted, unintelligible at times, oddly paced, and stomach churning. This newly revised play written by Philip Ridley does have some interesting ideas buried deep within its bowels. But the sheer unpleasantness of sitting through this miasma of pointlessness…
Sorcha Fox and Donal O’Kelly Photos by Pat Redmond by Eugene Paul Well, now, Irish charm, famous in song and story, does it again in the persons Donal O’Kelly and Sorcha Fox, two of the most endearing, beguiling, twist-round-your-little-finger Irish performers you’d ever have the pleasure to meet and if it wasn’t for the…
©Joan Marcus From left: Joe Paulik, Gabriel Brown and Maureen Anderman in ‘Love & Money’ by Eugene Paul There’s a slight chance that A.R. Gurney, playwright purveyor of things WASPy, is writing a parody of his own work on the world he’s made his own in so many of his plays, but don’t hold…
Patrick Page, Kate Burton, Hamish Linklater, and Teagle F. Bougere Photo by Carol Rosegg By Michall Jeffers Cymbeline is not a great play. In fact, it’s not even a particularly good one. So, lucky for Central Park theater goers, director Daniel Sullivan has taken a tongue-in-cheek approach, and turned this perennial Shakespeare also-ran into…
Marc de la Cruz, Zoe Wilson photos by Carol Rosegg by Eugene Paul A potentially fascinating retelling of the life of extraordinary Helen Keller. Eighty-five years ago, Helen Keller, in her full fame, wrote an essay she entitled “Three Days to See” in which she imagined three exceptional days during which she would actually see…
L-R: Quinn Franzen, Alia Attallah and Karan Photo by Hunter Canning by Glenn Giron Threesome opens with the gentle and dulcet tones of beautiful Middle Eastern music that suddenly erupt into a classic rock feel and sound designer Casi Pacilio boldly sets the stage for this enticing play. Lights up on a beautiful Egyptian…
by Deirdre Donovan The artist, the state, the church, and the critic are all alive and kicking in Howard Baker’s Scenes from an Execution, now in a potent revival at Atlantic Stage 2. And with Jan Maxwell leading the cast, who could ask for anything more? If you are an aficionado of Baker’s canon,…
David Strathairn by Eugene Paul If you are fortunate enough to have attended The Story of Jan Karski in its too brief run as a staged reading in the marvelous Museum of Jewish Heritage premises, you are already marked as hopelessly empathic to any endeavor to tell the all but incomprehensible story of the…
Patti LuPone and Michael Urie in a scene from “Shows for Days” (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) By David Schultz Playwright Douglas Carter Beane has his heart on his sleeve. His newest play is his romantic recollection of being bitten by the thrill of acting and being in the theater surrounded by eccentric showbiz folk….