Bertie Carvel, Jonny Lee Miller. Photo: Joan Marcus Ink By Fern Siegel Newspapers and TV have been forever changed by one man: Rupert Murdoch. It all began in 1969, the year Murdoch, a brash, reptilian Australian publisher, transformed the U.K.’s Sun, a respectable, low-circulation paper into an in-your-face tabloid that upended Fleet Street norms….
By R. Pikser The New Stage Theater, located in the partially finished basement of a hostel, complete with brightly painted steam pipes and outsized valves, provides a perfect entree to the theme of Electronic City by German playwright Falk Richter. Electronic City is a critique of the pervasive gig economy and resultant transient lives…
Tracy Letts, Annette Bening. Photo: Joan Marcus By Fern Siegel “What kind of a person are you? Don’t you live in the world?” an outraged Chris asks his cornered father. Welcome to the complicated arena of ethical anger and public responsibility that is Arthur Miller’s forte. The current revival of All My Sons…
Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow Photos: Julieta Cervantes Hillary and Clinton By Fern Siegel Hindsight is always 20-20. That’s especially true as history unfolds — and we see the consequences of presidential elections. But before the insidious manipulation of social media or the Mueller Report, the presidential election of 2008 proved a…
Maryann Plunkett and Ciaran O’Reilly Photo: Carol Rosegg Juno and the Paycock By Fern Siegel Politics is a hot topic this season — on and off-Broadway. Revolution — political and familial — is the subject of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, the second play in his Dublin trilogy, now at the…
Captions: (left to right) Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, Jawan M. Jackson, James Harkness, and Derrick Baskin in Ain’t Too Proud (photo by Matthew Murphy) Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations by Deirdre Donovan The good news from Broadway is that Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of…
Joon (Hannah Elless) & Benny (Claybourne Elder) Benny & Joon By David Schultz This current season (Hell, the last few years actually) is seeing its share of film to live theater treatments once again. Tootsie, Pretty Woman, Magic Mike (upcoming fall season), Beetlejuice, are currently in previews or up and running in…
Rebecca Naomi Jones and Damon Daunno photos by Teddy Wolff by Julia Polinsky Director Daniel Fish’s integrated, intimate, immersive staging of one of the landmark pieces of American musical theater transforms Rodgers and Hammerstein’s sunbeams-and-cornpone vision of America into art as dark as the oil-soaked soil of the state itself. Though not…
(Left to right) Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale, and Adrian Lester in The Lehman Trilogy Photo: Julieta Cervantes The Lehman Trilogy by Deirdre Donovan For those history buffs that have been hankering for a theatrical event that…
Captions: Ted Chapin, Co-host of Sondheim: Wordplay Photo Credit: Richard Termine Sondheim: Wordplay A Review by Deirdre Donovan Teaser: The 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series takes a closer look at Sondheim’s preternatural gift for wordplay. Sondheim, anyone? The latest offering of the 92nd Street Y’s “Lyrics & Lyricists” series was entitled Sondheim: Wordplay, presented…