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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
Rachel Pickup phtos Carol Rosegg By Ron Cohen Years of Irish-English strife are compacted into one day in Brian Friel’s drama, The Home Place, and the Irish playwright’s sympathies extend to both sides of the fray. It makes for an absorbing if somewhat tempered look into the destructive nature of colonization and political repression,…
by Edward Medina Sharon is a basket case. She’s a New York City, Upper West Side psychoanalyst in need of her own New York City, Upper West Side psychiatrist. She’s off her meds. Has been for a while. She’s a recovering alcoholic. Desperately in need of a drink. Sharon’s barely keeping it together but she’s…
Devon Perry as Annie Oakley Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show has settled in Elmsford for Westchester Broadway Theatre’s year-end production, Annie Get Your Gun. Familiar real life characters, including Frank Butler, Buffalo Bill Cody, Pawnee Bill, Sitting Bull and the title character, Annie Oakley, inhabit the stage…
Photo by Evan Zimmerman By David Schultz The past year has proven to be extremely stressful with the new political regime in place. Every new day posits a new twilight zone mentality to disturb and unnerve the soul. What better time then to go back…. way back to the 1950’s…
Matt McGrath and Arnie Burton Photo credit Carol Rosegg By Ron Cohen In the category of plays dealing with the AIDS epidemic, Lonely Planet is notable for its rather blithe, fanciful ambience. The play, which was first produced in 1991 at the Northlight Theatre in Evanston, Illinois, and saw an Off-Broadway premiere in 1994,…