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…
Cast of Pump Boys and Dinettes photos by Joan Marcus By: Eric Grunin So far this season, the Encores! Off-Broadway project has given us Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick…Boom! and Randy Newman’s Faust. For the final presentation of their second season we have Pump Boys and Dinettes, at once the least ambitious and most fulfilled of…
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…
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,…