Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo photos by Joan Marcus By: Eric Grunin Once upon a time in New York, a talented composer who wanted to use music to tell stories had a fair chance of making it happen. Once, because stable neighborhoods are healthy neighborhoods, rents were regulated to discourage speculators. Once, on the…
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…
Debbi Whiting and KT Sullivan photos by Maryann Lopinto by Linda Amiel Burns On Monday evening, June 23, 2014, a full house of fans of the legendary singer Margaret Whiting gathered together at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall to celebrate her life in song. Hosting was Margaret’s daughter Debbi Whiting and KT Sullivan,…
Photographs by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Once upon a time a long time ago in 1973, when a fat, smug country called the U.S.A was being upended with riots and protests about a perfectly natural condition which they had finally legislated in 1964 called Civil Rights, a beautiful baby boy named Lesane…
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,…
Sheldon Harnick accepting Award from Chita Rivera photos by Maryann Lopinto Town Hall raises the roof to honor Fiddler on the Roof’s 50th birthday, composer Sheldon Harnick’s 90th, Folksbein Theater celebrates 100th The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene is in its 100th season and celebrated that milestone along with 50 years of Fiddler on the…
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…
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…