The cast of The Portuguese Kid, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, at New York City Center — Stage I. (© Richard Termine) By Eugene Paul Multi-award winner playwright/director John Patrick Shanley, happily still plying his trades, has generated a new comedy for the now venerable Manhattan Theatre Club guaranteed to stimulate the arteries even…
Michael Urie Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017 By David Schultz How can something seem both dated and au currant at the same time? This revised version of playwright Harvey Fierstein’s 1982 Tony Award Winning play accomplishes just that. With an original running time of four hours, this truncated version runs just about two hours…
By Eugene Paul Shining new star Katrina Lenk and shining stellar Tony Shalhoub head a brilliant cast in a brilliant, loving new show. There they are, fresh, crisp and immensely proper – except for Haled (marvelous Ari’El Stachel), who is flirting as usual – the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra right off…
Danielle Soames (Mohawk/Kahnawake Nations) Photo Credit: Maya Bitan By Edward Medina In order to gain entry to the Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective’s production of Don’t Feed The Indians: A Devine Comedy Pageant at the legendary La MaMa’s Downstairs Theatre you must first pass through a sideshow. Your guide through this living tableau of…
Krysta Rodriguez in What We’re Up Against (c) Joan Marcus.jpg What We’re Up Against by Arney Rosenblat “What We’re Up Against” is a scorching and disturbingly timely tale about sexism and gender politics. It is set in a small architectural firm facing the challenge of how to fulfill a commission to expand a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…