(l-r) Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce Photo credit © Joan Marcus The Height Of The Storm By Ron Cohen Majestic performances illuminate the interplay of love, death and memory French playwright Florian Zeller creates compelling characters in mental disarray. In his plays previously mounted in New York, The Father took us with breathtaking…
Claire Mazza and Daniel White. photos are by Nan Melville Kathryn Posin Dance R. Pikser Kathryn Posin continues to delight us all with her wide-ranging interests, her imagination, and her wit. Lately, she has turned more to ballet, rather than modern dance, as her movement medium, though here and there whole body-movements sneak through…
Tommy Crawford, Christopher Sears. Photo by Carol Rosegg Only Yesterday By Ron Cohen How do you pull off a play about the Beatles – or at least two of the Beatles — without performing for whatever reason – licensing restriction, copyright prohibition, cost — any of the Beatles music? As in Only Yesterday, you…
Zawe Ashton ,Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Cox star Betrayal By Ron Cohen Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, which premiered in London in1978, is making its fourth stand on Broadway, and three superbly honed performances make clear there’s still plenty of juice to be squeezed from this minutely detailed saga of marital infidelity. The production, directed…
Steve Ross in Love, Noel at Irish Rep Photo by Carol Rosegg Love, Noel: The Songs and Letters of Noel Coward by Deirdre Donovan The ghost of Noel Coward floated into the Irish Repertory Theater this summer and created quite an artistic stir, courtesy of cabaret veterans Steve Ross and KT Sullivan. The two…
Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo (Matt Murphy) By Eugene Paul There are no admonishments telling you not to take photos inside the theater which would be useless anyway since the aisles before curtain time are filled with awestruck jostlers clicking away. And besides, director Alex Timbers is ready for just that, so shoot your fill….
Bat Out of Hell by Arney Rosenblat In Bat Out of Hell – The Musical which is rocking New York City Center you’ll find vibrant music that will arouse your spirit, visuals that will dazzle your eyes and a story that will dumbfound your brain but for an overall fun time– two…
Sea Wall/A Life By Fern Siegel Tom Sturridge Photo: Richard Hubert Smith An intimate chamber piece now at the Hudson Theater, Sea Wall/A Life posits two men musing on life, death and love. But mostly, it’s about death. The double bill, by authors Simon Stephens (Sea Wall) and Nick Payne (A Life), embarks on…
Christopher Ryan Grant and Louis Cancelmi photos by Joan Marcus Coriolanus by Arney Rosenblat In Daniel Sullivan’s engaging production of William Shakespeare’s complex tragedy Coriolanus, he deftly explores the political pitfalls of the Democratic precept of power to the people through the rise and fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus who has the…
Domenica Feraud and Florencia Lozano photos by Jenny Anderson Rinse, Repeat By Ron Cohen Things are pretty tense at the Tellner household. Their 21-year-old daughter Rachel has just returned home after a four-month stay in a hospital battling the near-fatal effects of anorexia. Her return is actually a trial visit to see if…