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…
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…
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,…
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater by Eugene Paul In this city of miracles, something of a miracle is happening in Central Park and the adumbrations at the Delacorte are many. A. Performances continue to be free, an impossible dream for the dreamer, Joe Papp, a continuing benison to millions of visitors old and new,…
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…
L-R: Russell Dixon, Ben Porter, and Sarah Parks By Eugene Paul “How else can we hope to cram a life time of events into two or three hours?” asks playwright Alan Ayckbourn in his eloquently terse essay, “Time Was…”, a lovely little gift in the Ayckbourn Ensemble program that accompanies this greater gift, a…
Back L-R: Sarah Stanley, Kim Wall, and Bill Champion; Front: Elizabeth Boag By Eugene Paul Ah there, first off, we need once again to remind us that Alan Ayckbourn, noted Alan Ayckbourn is here with a passel of his plays. Not all seventy-eight, heaven forfend, no, just four, and of the four, two are…
QURRAT ANN KADWANI By R. Pikser St. Luke’s Church, located across Eighth Avenue from the big Broadway houses is just barely off Broadway. The church has fitted its basement into an elegant theater space with comfortable chairs on risers and a small stage that still manages to have three wings. The tannish color…
Bill Champion and Kim Wall Photos by Andrew Higgens by Eugene Paul Sitting in front of me were two breathlessly beautiful, makeup free girls, the older one, at least sixteen, extravagantly overdressed, advising her younger companion from her copious notes. Students, I thought. How wise, how even brilliant of their teacher to have sent them…