Aoife Kelly and Phil Gillen photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen The course of true love never did run smooth. That probably wasn’t big news circa 1598 when Shakespeare wrote that immortal line in his A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And it certainly wasn’t any more astounding some 400 years later when the master…
Jeff Kready (Ted), Hayley Podschun (Linda), Nicholas Rodriguez photos by Jerry Dalia By David Schultz This perfect holiday classic, recently on Broadway in 2016 is brought back to delight yet again. This snazzy show is based on the well-known Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film shown on cable year after year. It’s a warm as a…
LR: Leah Curney, James Patrick Nelson, Claire CurtisWard, Dominic Comperatore . Photo by Hunter Canning By Eugene Paul Yasmina Reza, whose plays Art and God of Carnage were huge hits in Paris and London and won themselves each a Tony in New York, returns for a second try with Life X 3 using the same silken translation by Christopher Hampton that did not go down well…
Christiani Pitts stars as Ann Darrow in King Kong, directed by Drew McOnie, at the Broadway Theatre. (© Joan Marcus) By Eugene Paul Though naïveté is hardly a New York Broadway thing, get ready to be naively amazed, enthralled, delighted, and even a bit frightened because King Kong is in town, the way he was supposed…
By Ron Cohen Deborah Johnson, a central character in Patricia Ione Lloyd’s impassioned drama, Eve’s Song, has a prominent corporate job as a vice-president of acquisitions. She lives in a well-to-do suburb, and at dinner time holds polite conversations with her two children, Lauren, a college student, and Mark, a smart high-schooler, about…
By Marc Miller So: Some New York show-biz sophisticates descend on a Midwestern town and interfere with the locals, in the process unsettling the high school student body and stirring up parent-child issues, while learning a few lessons about themselves. Bye Bye Birdie, right? Yes, and now it’s also The Prom, a new…
Raúl Esparza Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Ever wonder what it would have been like to be in near proximity to Adolf Hitler with his demonic rabble-rousing in full power? Well, in real life, that’s probably not a consummation devoutly to be wished. But as a theatrical experience, it’s a…
Photo Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Not very long ago if Jez Butterworth’s deeply enthralling, sold out hit play were to have arrived on these shores we might have looked at it as a trenchant, troubling example of the sins of hatreds handed down Irish generations, an aching chronicle foreign to this…
By Eugene Paul Several years ago my neighbor called me and asked me if I would accompany her to the police station. It was late, dark, she was alone, a single mom raising her two sons. One of them was in some kind of trouble. Of course I went with her….
Photo Credit Doren Sorell by Deirdre Donovan Part biodrama, part confessional, part stand-up comedy, actor-playwright Ronnie Marmo takes the stage at the Cutting Room and gives us a searing portrait of Lenny Bruce in his one-man show I’m Not a Comedian. . .I’m Lenny Bruce. Marmo doesn’t just impersonate the stand-up comic…