Marissa Tomei Photo: Joan Marcus The Rose Tattoo By Fern Siegel “There is something wild in the air.” The phrase is uttered as The Rose Tattoo opens, a minor play in Tennessee Williams’ canon. The story arc is thin, and it’s hard to get overly engaged with the characters, though a sultry sense permeates…
Mark Linn-Baker, Jon Glover, Mark Blum, Jill Eikenberry, Jodi Long, Ellen Parker, photos by Carol Rosegg Fern Hill By Barry Bassis “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be” says Rabbi Ben Ezra in Robert Browning’s poem. Change the “me” to “us” and you have the gist of Michael Tucker’s new play,…
Jim True-Frost, Cora Vander Broek, Ian Barford & Sally Murphy Linda Vista By Eugene Paul Playwright Tracy Letts and the Steppenwolf Company at their scathing best. Linda Vista, indeed. What’s so “Linda” about it? Okay, there’s more there than meets the eye. Sure, designer Todd Rosenthal runs a city silhouette…
How I Found an Affordable Apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan without Really Trying by Deirdre Donovan Charles Gross’ new one-man play How I Found an Affordable Apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan without Really Trying is a delightful journey through the mind and heart of its author. …
Fifty Million Frenchmen – a showcase of Cole Porter’s hits – is as light and frothy as a French meringue. FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN By Rachel Pacelli The York Theatre Company’s Fifty Million Frenchmen is part of their “Musicals in Mufti series”, or “in street clothes”. Having only 40 hours of rehearsal, the sets are bared…
(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…