Seawall/A Life by Arney Rosenblat Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge made their Public Theater debuts in an unforgettable and incredibly intimate evening of theater. Sturridge in his third collaboration with Tony and Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night) performs…
Debra Jo Rupp photos by Joan Marcus The Cake By Ron Cohen When a Colorado baker refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, the controversy went all the way to the Supreme Court. In her play The Cake, being given its New York premiere Off-Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club, Bekah…
Journalist and moderator Ruthie Fierberg, co-writer David Hein, co-writer Irene Sankoff, performer Happy McPartlin, performer Jim Walton, performer Julie Reiber. Come From Away: A Broadway 2nd Anniversary Celebration by Deirdre Donovan Although a late-winter storm covered the city’s streets and sidewalks with slush on March 3rd, it didn’t stop some…
L Tyler Fauntleroy and Kim Sullivan photos by Gerry Goodstein Looking For Leroy R. Pikser This two-man play by Larry Muhammed is a tribute to the late Imamu Amiri Baraka, icon of the Black theatre and Black arts movements, whose contributions still inform our consciousness. A word commonly used these days, though almost…
Manu Narayan, Emily Young, Brittany Bradford, and Ben Steinfeld photos by Joan Marcus Merrily We Roll Along By David Schultz Both loved and reviled in equal measure, this problematic musical is once again attempting the impossible. The original production (as every theater aficionado knows) shuttered in 1981, after a mere 16 performances…
Left to right: Matthew Saldivar, Betsy Wolfe, Jared Grimes, Max Kumangai, Harriet D. Foy in Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis, Jr., Songbook Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis, Jr. Songbook by Deirdre Donovan Black History month ends on a high note, with the 92nd Street Y’s vibrant tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr.,…
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company in Intersections. Photo by Steven Pisano Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company: Intersections By R. Pikser This 20th anniversary concert of Daniel Gwirtzman’s was a retrospective of pieces created between 1999 and 2018. The pieces were extracted from their original ballets and put together for this hour and a half concert,…
Jamal Brathwaite (left), Amy Frances Quint (center) and Kevin Haver (right) photos by Maria Baranova), Twelfth Night: Frog and Peach R. Pikser The intimacy of a black box theater brings audiences close to the performers; the spare space requires use of the imagination by directors, performers, and audience. One can…
Daniel Petzold and Peggy J. Scott in . Photo by Rana Faure. Switzerland by Julia Polinsky Switzerland has a simple plot, in which reclusive writer Patricia Highsmith (Peggy J. Scott), who lives in Switzerland, gets a visit from Edward Ridgeway (Daniel Petzold), a feckless young man sent by her publisher to persuade her to sign…
Emma Geer and Nick LaMedica By Marc Miller The Mint Theater Company does well by Elizabeth Baker’s antique, but it’s hard not to feel you’re being lectured to. Elizabeth Baker’s The Price of Thomas Scott is an interesting little antique with a curious morality. The Mint Theater Company’s initial offering in its…