Andrea Martin in Conversation with Nathan Lane by Linda Amiel Burns The 92nd Street Y launched its new season of TALKS with 2 Tony winners in conversation – Nathan Lane interviewing Andrea Martin about her new book, “Lady Parts.” What is TALKS? According to the series description at the 92nd Y, it is about…
By Michall Jeffers Note for next season: If you have an opportunity to get a seat facing the conductor at the Mostly Mozart Festival, grab it! Seeing the program from this angle is a whole different experience, and it’s well worth it. Conductor Louis Langree exudes sheer joy, and clearly inspires the musicians with…
Cast of Wizard of Oz Photos by John Vecchioll by Eugene Paul There’s no need to ask if you’ve ever seen the 1939 movie of The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow”, her voice filled with chills and wonder, longing and pathos, all of us melting in surrender before her. …
A scene from Takaaki Shigenobu’s Dancing Monk Ippen, directed by Hiroaki Doi, at the Sheen Center as part of the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival. By R. Pikser The Dancing Monk Ippen is a modern adaptation of a part of Japanese history from the 13th century, when there was much civil war and killing…
by Eugene Paul You could just tell: they smell it, they taste it, they’re so close…next stop, Broadway! Alexander Dodge’s smashing set is ready, David C. Woolard’s costumes are really Done, the hipped orchestra is ready, Carl Casella’s sound system already reaches all the way to Broadway. Daniel Goldfarb’s book has its lapses, yes,…
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…
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…
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…
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra Photos by: Jennifer Taylor by Deirdre Donovan Your playbill might read “Mostly Mozart,” but Beethoven and Haydn had the last word in this August 2nd program. Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival is one of those New York traditions that no New Yorker should do without. Not only does it pay homage…