Tootsie By Marc Miller Santino Fontana. How long have some of us been waiting for him to become the breakout star we knew he could be? The anticipation goes back at least to Sons of the Prophet, through The Importance of Being Earnest and Act One and Cinderella, not to mention all those Crazy…
Photo by Hugh Kretsthmer John Bayless – One Hand One Heart – My Life and My Music by: Mary L Smith John Bayless returns to his beloved New York for the World Premier of his new show “One Hand One Heart” at Landmark On Main Street in Port Washington. John…
Photos by Julieta Cervantes Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus By Ron Cohen The corpses are piled high. They’re oozing blood and other bodily liquids. And yes, as you probably have heard, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus is indeed a comedy, quite a funny one. Titus Andronicus was one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, perhaps…
Rigoletto By Barry Bassis Rigoletto is Giuseppe Verdi’s opera based on a Victor Hugo play, “Le roi s’amuse” (“The king takes his amusement”), about the corrupt king of France during the 16th century, François I. When the opera ran into censorship problems, Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave moved the locale to Italy…
Rob McClure (Adam), Kerry Butler (Barbara), Sophia Anne Caruso (Lydia), Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice) Photo by Matthew Murphy 2019 Beetlejuice By David Schultz Wildly inventive, overly caffeinated reboot is strictly for the fanbase. This whirling dervish musical starts at 90 miles an hour as it ratchets up the intensity and never rests for…
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…