photos, credit Richard Termine Medea By David Schultz This ancient tragedy by Greek playwright Euripides was written in 431 BCE, and is his most well-known play. This shocking story of Mother Love mingled with demonic revenge has been given a shaky modern reboot for current millennials to ponder. Upon entering the cavernous hulking semi…
Charles Busch photos by Carol Rosegg The Confession of Lily Dare by Marc Miller Ruth Chatterton may be an unfamiliar name to a lot of latter-day theatergoers; so, for that matter, may be Wynne Gibson, and even Helen Hayes and Claudette Colbert. But they’re the guardian angels watching over The Confession of Lily Dare,…
Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven By David Schultz This highly respected playwright has a unique predilection for unusual titles. As these various past plays can attest…Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, and his most recent From Riverside to Crazy, which won the coveted…
Laura Linney Photo by: Matthew Murphy My Name Is Lucy Barton By Fern Siegel Tony-nominated actress Laura Linney (The Little Foxes, Time Stands Still) can probably count on another nomination for her exquisite performance in My Name Is Lucy Barton, a solo play based on the Elizabeth Strout novel. As Lucy Brown recounts her nine-week…
Caroline Strang and Ian Holcomb London Assurance By Eugene Paul With a New York assurance bordering on sorcery, director Charlotte Moore romps through one of the most delectable and enchanting — and fiendishly difficult to perform – of theatrical endeavors, the drawing room farce and comes up a winner all round with Irish-American Dion…
Dep Kirkland, Alan Trinca, Christine Evangelista Photos by Jeremy Daniel MsTRIAL by Julia Polinsky Dep Kirkland’s MsTRIAL deals with men, women, power, and rape. Have we become so jaded that this terrible subject has become a mildly annoying yawn? Or is it just this play that made rape tedious? I’m betting on the…
Samuel H Levine, Kyle Soller, Andrew Burnap The Inheritance by David Schultz A modern gay intergenerational riff on Howard’s End operatic in scope. Finding a soulmate in writer E.M. Forster was the furthest thing from a 16-year-old kid’s mindset. But on what would prove to be a fortuitous life changing moment, young Matthew Lopez…
Raul Esparza Photos by Joan Marcus Seared by Arney Rosenblat Currently running at the MCC Theatre on West 52nd Street, Seared is a cautionary tale of what can happen when the art and commerce of cooking collide. The first thing the audience notices upon entering the theater house is that they have a…
Harvey Fierstein photos by Jeremy Daniel Bella Bella by Julia Polinsky Multiple-Tony-winning Harvey Fierstein has entered the pantheon of stars so famous, they only have one name: Bette. Barbra. Bernadette. Harvey. The show may be called Bella Bella, and be about the marvelous Mrs. Abzug, but it’s really All Harvey, All the Time; it’s…
Peter Dinklage Blake Jenner photos by Monique Carboni Cyrano – A New Group Musical Starring Peter Dinklage by Arney Rosenblat Outer beauty trumps inner beauty once again in this modern musical adaptation of the 1897 romantic drama of unrequited love – Cyrano de Bergerac written by Edmond Rostand Though intellectually, most people agree…