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…
by Deirdre Donovan The holidays came early at Don’t Tell Mama, as Robin Kradles took the stage with her vivacious new solo show, “Gambling on Love.” Kradles stirred in all the right ingredients for a spicy holiday brew: a dash of glamour, a splash of fun, a sprinkling of anecdotes, and meaty…
Serena Berwin, Connie Castanzo, Maggie Metnick photos Mati Gelman By Arney Rosenblatt The disquiet, the need of a defining identity, and ultimately the gnawing desire for some kind of retribution when you are dispersed and displaced as “the Other” is the dilemma explored with satirical humor by emerging playwright Nathaniel Sam Shapiro…
Krystina Alabado Photos by Richard Termine By Eugene Paul Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk , pop music theater writing team for fifteen years – they did the book, music and lyrics for The Mad Ones – don’t give up. When, several years ago The Mad Ones, then known as The Unauthorized Autobiography of…
By R. Pikser Rakugo, the Japanese storytelling art form, dates from the end of the Muromachi period, the second half of the 16th century. The storyteller (rakugoka) appears in the simplest of settings: a dais to sit upon, with nothing more than a fan and a small hand towel as props. The rakugoka’s skill in…
Christy Escobar And Maja Wampuszyc (Photo Credit Bill Coyle) By Edward Medina A poet died in New York City. It was an apparent suicide. As most things are in this situation there’s more to the story. Her lover was with her. What was to be a mutual offing had gone wrong. As her lesbian…