Benjamin Sheff and Carman Napier in Next to Normal (photo by Bella Muccari) by Eric Grunin If you saw Alice Ripley give the performance of a lifetime in Next to Normal, you might wonder if the tremendous impact of the show wasn’t perhaps dependent on having such a force of nature for its power….
Lily Balsen as Fatima, Jonathan Tindle as Oliver Davenport by Eugene Paul Alex Draper as Leo Katz, Tosca Giustini as Gabriella Pecs, Jonathan Tindle as Oliver Davenport Young, mysteriously excited Gabriella Pecs, (Tosca Giustini) has led worldly art historian Oliver Davenport (Jonathan Tindle) to an ancient ruin of a Romanesque church, begging him…
Photos by Jaqi Medlock. By R. Pikser Jack’s, the performance space in re-gentrifying Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, looks like it was once a garage. The tin-foil covered walls of the one room provide an intimate space for young performers to learn their craft, and the price is doable for the equally young audience members. This…
John Lithgow photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul After forty-one years, the Public Theater has brought a new production of King Lear to the Delacorte, crystal clear in its exposition, sweeping in its physical scope, aggravatingly complex as ever in it character development of Lear, ham handed in its painting of villains, and…
David Barlow as Hamlet and Robert Emmet Lunney as Claudius by Eugene Paul If you haven’t heard of Howard Barker, the playwright of Gertrude: The Cry, don’t fash yourself; millions in Great Britain, his home territory, are in the same condition of ignorance. However, if you were to mention his name in artistic circles…
Sarah Lemp, Mark Roberts, Matthew Pilieci Photos by Russ Rowland By Eugene Paul Enter at Forest Lawn, by Mark Roberts, is the second –and shorter but more vitriolic—play in The Gyre, the title that the Amoralists have given to their repertory play voyage of discovery of the vicious cycles we experience. It is hobbled…
Samantha Strelitz, Nicole Moore, Derek Ahonen, Kelley Swindall photographer Russ Rowland by Eugene Paul The Amoralists are presenting a two play repertory which they say explores “man’s vicious cycles”. The plays, The Qualification of Douglas Evans by Derek Ahonen, and Enter at Forest Lawn by Mark Roberts each feature the play’s author in…
Matt Bogart photos by Matthew Murphy by Eugene Paul If you’re going to write a play about the arguably most complicated figure in Western literature, James Joyce, you are asking for it. And just to make things interestinger , tackling Joyce’s language alone has been a migraine ever since the first publication of…
Sylvia Milo wrote and stars in The Other Mozart, directed by Isaac Byrne, at HERE Arts Center. (© Charlotte Dobre) By: Eric Grunin The setup is simple and familiar: an actor presents herself as an historical figure, and tells us her life story. In this case, it’s author-performer Sylvia Milo as Maria Anna Mozart,…
Cherry Jones as ‘Agnes’ photo by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Playwright Sarah Treem is just so good she ought to be a Broadway staple. “Oh, a Sarah Treem play? Let’s go.” More, she ought to be in every rep, every regional, every little theater in the land. She’s so good, she makes little…