Robert Fairchild photo credit: Shirin Tinati by Arney Rosenblat An ambitious, visually beautiful attempt to transport an audience to another time and place. The Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein production reflects the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s executive artistic director Eve Wolf’s creative goal “to bring historical figures and works to the stage with…
Ian Holcomb, Orlagh Cassidy, Aaron Gaines, and Dewey Caddell photos by Carol Rosegg by Deirdre Donovan Of all the holiday shows in New York this season, none is as life-affirming as It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play. This stage adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic film returns to the Irish Repertory Theatre…
Daniel Gerroll and Robin Abramson Shadowlands By Eugene Paul Playwright William Nicholson’s winningly romantic depiction of the love between lionized literary light C.S. Lewis and brave, brilliant poet Joy Gresham is being given a movingly enlightened revival in director Christa Scott-Reed’s keenly observed production, thanks to wonderful performances, particularly by Daniel…
Ethan Slater photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The first ripples of delight from the audience at the Palace Theatre, where the musical SpongeBob SquarePants has just washed up, is prompted by David Zinn’s jaw-dropping nautical set: an imaginative replica of what life beneath the waves would look like. The second…
Manny Urena and cast Photo credit Russ Rowland by Deirdre Donovan True story of a Guatemalan teen in the immigration courts in the United States. Thanks to Jefffrey Solomon’s new docudrama De Novo, theatergoers can now get an insider’s look at what really happens in the immigration courts in the United…
Jihae Park Photo Credit:Max Gordon by R. Pikser This theatrical adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, “Sleep,” is a work of much collaboration: The adaptation is by Naomi Iizuka; The direction, as important as the acting, is by Ripe Time, a group that develops and presents new ensemble-based performance works, and its artistic director…
Hailey Kilgore and cast Photos by Joan Marcus by Julia Polinsky Every moment of this revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once On This Island touches the heart and rings true, from start – with the best “turn off your phone” reminder in recent history – to the happy/cry ending. Splendid…
Lucy DeVito, Paul Molnar, Max Crumm photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen For a play that seems compelled to spew lots of graphic sex talk, Hot Mess also dispenses a lot of charm. The script concerns the romance between Elanor, a female standup comic in Los Angeles, and Max, a one-time comic…
Kate Hamill and Jason O’Connell photos by James Leynse by Julia Polinsky It’s easy to go back and forth between liking Primary Stages’ production of Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice and absolutely loathing it. If you can take or leave the Austen novel, you may like this show better than if you…
By Edward Rubin Three years ago, ex-New Yorker David Lefkowitz, now a Colorado based actor, writer, playwright, and popular radio personality, brought his one man show, Shalom Dammit: An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, to New York City. The overall thrust of the evening, wildly performed by the playwright himself, was what it…