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…
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…
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…
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…