Helene Yorke and Brandon Uranowitz in the Encores! staging of Grand Hotel at City Center, New York. Photo: Joan Marcus By Edward Medina With a deeply engrossing book by Luther Davis and the beautiful music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, the legend that is Grand Hotel, The Musical has reappeared once…
Máiréad Nesbitt and Rob Evan By Eugene Paul Rocktopia, which originated in Budapest eight years ago bills itself as a classical revolution, its logo a bust of Beethoven overlaid with an electric guitar, its stars Rob Evan, Chloe Lowery, Tony Vincent, Kimberly Nichole, Alyson Cambridge and Pat Monahan. That bust transforming electric…
Sturgis Warner, Jo Mei, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Sorab Wadia, Steven Skybell By Ron Cohen Babette’s Feast, a short story by Isak Dinesen, was famously transformed into an elegiac Danish movie in 1987, winning an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Now, the tale has been transformed once again into a pleasurable…
Christopher Green by Edward Medina An old woman sits quietly in a chair. Her chair is one of many in a circle. She sits amongst a group of fellow addicts that are in need of confession. Admissions and revelations begin spewing forth until she decides it’s her turn. She then tells the story…
Eisna Davis,Zach Grenier, Aya Cash by Deirdre Donovan An idealistic freshman congresswoman attempts to clean-up what’s wrong in Washington. It’s time for Sydney Millsap (Eisna Davis) to press the flesh at her fundraiser at the swanky Four Seasons resort in Vail, Colorado. But the neophyte congresswoman from Dallas hasn’t left her hotel…
Tannis Kowalchuk, Photo credit: Emily Hewitt by Julia Polinsky The minute you start tinkering with the Legend that is Shakespeare, you invite disagreement. The problem is: we don’t know much about Shakespeare. Existing documents include such things as birth, marriage, and death records, and, of course, his will, with the famous legacy: to…
Yosi Sokolsky and Ronit Asheri By Eugene Paul In what is almost a poetic echo of the long vanished Yiddish theatrical companies’ wanderings throughout Europe, the New Yiddish Rep has alit this time among its New York City rovings from modest to meager establishments in the rattletrap long time home of the Rattlestick…
Tammy (Lisa Howard) clicks with barkeep Brick (Eric Petersen) (© MATTHEW MURPHY) By Eugene Paul Director Christopher Ashley will be reveling in having two hits on Broadway at the same time, one from the heart, Come From Away, and one from Margaritaville. a great big confection,- make that an alcoholic confection – so…
The Pot of Broth: Colin Lane, David O’Hara, Clare O’Malley Photo: Carol Rosegg By Fern Siegel There is something primal and poetic in Three Small Masterpieces, at the Irish Rep. That’s thanks to the stellar writers — William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and J.M. Synge — who capture the pathos of the rural…
Barbara Garrick and Laurence Lau By Ron Cohen “The world I came from. It was a totally different culture,” declares the Boston banker Austin toward the end of A.R. Gurney’s Later Life. “All those…surrogates…breathing down your neck. Nurses. Cooks. Maids. Gardeners. Aunts and uncles. Parents, too, of course. And Godparents. Grandparents. Great-grandparents, for…