by Edward Medina Randy has written a novel and he wants to read it to you. Actually, he needs to read it to you. He’s slaved and labored and sacrificed to get it done and he wants to make sure it’s just right. He wants to know if it qualifies as art. He must…
Amelia Pedlow and Dina Thomas by Edward Medina Words. Words. Words. Beautiful luscious words. Set in rhymes. Framed in metaphors. Hung in allegories. Displayed with glorious grace, slick style, and unending rapturous wit. The rhyme rules here and while some are more forced than others they all manage to fall lovingly on the ear….
Erika Henningsen, Ashley Park, Taylor Louderman, Kate Rockwell photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The morphing of the 2004 hit film Mean Girls to a musical is drawing a lot of young millennials to the August Wilson Theatre nowadays. But if you think that only scrub-faced teens are in the audience, think again. …
Photos by Theo Cote by Edward Medina Seagullmachine, now being presented at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, is the totally immersive creation of The Assembly which describes itself as a collective of multi-disciplinary performance artists committed to realizing a visceral and intelligent theater for a new generation. There are two…
Dan Luria photos by Russ Rowland by Arney Rosenblat Through a stunningly rendered production and compelling performances, The Stone Witch movingly explores the price of greatness Simon Grindberg is a “great man” who is revered as one of the world’s most illustrious children’s writers and illustrators but his next anticipated masterpiece is…
Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) By Jeanne Lieberman Brace yourself Broadway! A Big Brawny Musical may be heading your way led by Harry Connick, Jr. and a tireless troupe of terpsichorean tap dancers. Papermill’s latest shiny production follows a prestigious journey starting from George Roy Hill’s award winning 1973 iconic film, which was loosely based…
Harry Clarke: Bill Crudup Photo: Carol Rosegg By Fern Siegel Identity is fertile ground for drama, but disassociation kicks it up a notch. Or as our narrator explains: “I’ve gotten on a ride I can’t get off.” And it’s a wild one. The narrator is Billy Crudup — and for 80 minutes at…
by Edward Medina The Amazing Kreskin is a mentalist of the highest order and has been for the past fifty years. By his own count he has had a television series, his own board game by Milton Bradley, twenty published books, and a major motion picture inspired by his work. Kreskin is also a…
By Deirdre Donovan Whether you are a flag-waving American or not, you would likely have been delighted by Irving Berlin: American, the latest offering from the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series. Directed, co-written, and choreographed by Noah Racey, the concert was choc-a-bloc with dozens of Berlin’s beloved songs and sprinkled with…
Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Jackson photos by Matthew Murphy By Ron Cohen The wonders of speech and sound, the mysteries of silence and the entanglements of love are interwoven into a deeply moving tapestry in Mark Medoff’s Children of a Lesser God. Now the drama, whose original Broadway production garnered it a…