Chicken & Biscuits by Deirdre Donovan What’s cookin’ on Broadway? Douglas Lyons’ uproarious new comedy that recently opened at Circle in the Square. Under the direction of Zhailon Levingston, it’s overly long, but if you want to see a play…
We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert by Jeanne Lieberman photos by Phil McAuliffe Is the prematurely canceled concert celebrating New York’s victory over Covid a metaphor for incomplete victory as the Delta variant looms over us? The crowd came in exultant and in a celebratory mood. Their party personae reflecting the theme…
Photograph: Shaye Weaver/Time Out We got a first look at the gorgeous Immersive Van Gogh exhibit coming to NYC Get ready to take an emotional journey through the artist’s incredible paintings By Shaye Weaver Posted: Wednesday May 26 2021, 5:04 PM FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsApp Donning a hard hat covered in painted sunflowers, I stepped into the highly-anticipated “Immersive Van…
By Edward Rubin A pre and post-COVID-19-slanted offering much peppered with condemnation of Trump and the current administration – was presented one time only this past September–was HBO’s Coastal Elites. Originally written to be performed as a play at New York City’s Public Theater by playwright, and novelist Paul Rudnick, widely known for his humorous…
Carmit Levite (Leah Erdmann) and Curzon Dobell (Mark Erdmann) by Eugene Paul The bitterly ironic title of Iddo Netanyahu’s blunt weapon of a play leaves no room for waffling, which is the exact opposite of the behavior of his central characters, Mark Erdmann (sterling Curzon Dobell) and his stunning wife Leah (picture perfect Carmit…
Jane Alexander, and James Cromwell Joan Marcus Grand Horizons by Eugene Paul Carole Rothman, artistic director of 2ndStage has done us an enormous favor by braving the winds of juke box musicals currently sweeping through town and bestowing upon the Great White Way a mostly comedy – New Yorkers love to laugh – family…
Jerry O’Connell Blair Underwood photos by Joan Marcus A Soldier’s Play By Eugene Paul Playwright Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize play, A Soldier’s Play is finally getting its Broadway due in this gripping Roundabout Theatre production and I hope it runs as long as it did when the Negro Ensemble Company produced it back in…
Paradise Lost By Eugene Paul For the actively –no pun intended – proselytizing Christian centered Fellowship for the Performing Arts, playwright Tom Dulack has rendered a staged version of the great John Milton’s massive ten volume epic poem, “Paradise Lost” which saw the light of day and brought it to the English speaking…
The Journey By Eugene Paul If you haven’t been to The Tank in a while you’ll notice several improvements in signage which could enable you to navigate the unchanged cramped premises – you’re definitely Off Off Broadway – maybe Off Off Off. Which, inevitably has an impact on the plays presented. Too…
Woman in Black By David Schultz Author Susan Hill’s haunted gothic novel has been adapted for the stage yet again. It is hard to fathom that this worn-out creaky ghost story has been running for 30 years, and gone on an unfathomable 14 tours worldwide. A British television rendition ran in the…