John Leguizamo photos Joan Marcus By Edward Medina John Leguizamo has a problem at home. His wife is waiting for him to step up, his daughter is at the know-it-all brat stage, his son is being bullied at school and that is the source for all the turmoil at home. He wants his son…
Wilson Bethel and Alex Mickiewicz star in Anna Ziegler’sThe Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre. (© Joan Marcus) By Eugene Paul Tim Mackabee’s stunningly consuming setting so dominates and abets Anna Ziegler’s metaphorically infused play, placing you deep in the tennis match of her take…
Rupert Simonian, Ian Brodsky, Jack D.Martin photo Caylena Cahill By Marc Miller Theatre 80 St. Marks has been, over the years, a prominent off-Broadway house (it contained the original You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown), a revival cinema that flourished before VHS-DVD-streaming took over, and a very occasional way station for works-in-progress. Such a…
John Magaro photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Before it had the Delacorte Theater, before Hair, A Chorus Line and Hamilton, the New York Shakespeare Festival was in dire straits. And it’s that stressful period that Richard Nelson engrossingly targets in his new play Illyria, offering an affectionate portrait of the Festival’s founder…
Jos Houben in THE ART OF LAUGHTER; photo by Henry Grossman. by R. Pikser To open its season this year, Theater for A New Audience has invited Jos Houben and Marcelo Magni to perform an evening of two pieces, both dealing with humor, both a bit cruel, like life, and both leaving…
Ringmaster Ty Photo credit: Juliana Crawford By Edward Medina Hidden away in the corner of Lincoln Center Plaza’s Damrosch Park is a grand tent. It sits on the stage right side of the Metropolitan Opera House. Covered in gold stars on its surface, and filled with genuine stars within, the large blue big top…
Eden Malyn in STUFFED – photo by Jeremy Daniel Lauren Ann Brickman Marsha Stephanie Blake Lisa Lampanelli Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lauren Ann Brickman, Lisa Lampanelli, Eden Malyn photos by Jeremy Daniel by Julia Polinsky Lisa Lampanelli’s Stuffed opens on an aqua fantasy mid-century modern kitchen, dominated by a chained…
Clive Owen and Jin Ha (Copyright Matthew Murphy) By Edward Medina There’s a prison cell on stage at the Cort Theatre. It’s occupied by a single prisoner. The man in the box is a civil servant convicted of betraying his government. He’s been imprisoned mind, body, and soul along with the remembrances of the…
David Greenspan. Photo © Carol Rosegg by Deirdre Donovan David Greenspan’s marathon performance of Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act play Strange Interlude is a stunner. Greenspan not only performs all the roles in the dramatis personae, but he delivers every syllable in the text verbatim. Under the aegis of the Transport Group, and directed…
Greig Sargeant (center) and the company of Elevator Repair Service’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE, created by Elevator Repair Service and directed by John Collins, running at The Public Theater. Photo credit: Richard Termine By Ron Cohen With the backing of The Public Theater, Elevator Repair Service, one of New York’s most audacious theater companies –…