Laura Linney as Regina Giddens and Cynthia Nixon as Birdie Hubbard photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Two actresses of top-drawer talent – Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon — command the stage, share top billing and even share roles in the latest Broadway revival of the American classic, The Little…
la Ashe & Babak Tafti photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Hard working playwright Zayd Dohrn is both the beneficiary of Playwrights Horizons richly handsome production values and victim of their staging shortcomings, blessings and curses of the great, collaborative art which makes up Theater. If all aspects are not at…
Jonathan Sayer, Greg Tannahill, Henry Lewis, Dave Hearn and Charlie Russell (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) By Eugene Paul If you’ve come to the Lyceum Theatre out of a disturbed sense of enjoying the sheer irony which impelled you to go to the theatre to see something called “The Play that Goes Wrong” because the title so…
Obi Abili photos by Carol Rosegg by Julia Polinsky The Emperor Jones at the Irish Repertory Theatre may be the best version of this play in many years. Between the terrific performance by Obi Abili as Jones, and the splendid vision of director Ciaran O’Reilly, this is one of those times when a…
Joan Marcus Cobie Smulders and Kevin Kline By Ron Cohen Everybody loves Garry Essendine. Ladies say they have lost their “latch keys” as a pretense to spend the night in his posh apartment. His longtime secretary, Monica, and even his estranged wife, Liz, watch over him like a pair of guardian angels. A…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Two of Broadway’s “innest” leading ladies, award winning Patti LuPone and award winning Christine Ebersole, in the same show? Must see. Playing the leading power icons in the beauty business, Helena Rubinstein, Empress of Unguents and Elizabeth Arden Queen of Creams? Gotta See. At dirty,…
Tam Mutu and Scarlett Strallen Photos credit Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan Since 1991, City Center Encores! has been one of the darlings of the New York Theater establishment. With its latest offering, Cole Porter’s The New Yorkers under the sound direction of John Rando, it can only endear itself more to musical…
Rob Nagle photos by Russ Rowland By Marc Miller There’s not much church, but plenty of state, in Church & State, Jason Odell Williams’s “serious comedy” now populating New World Stages. “State” as in the state of North Carolina, the current state of American politics, and an attempted statement on what to do about…
Omar Metwally as Paul, Marisa Tomei as George, Lena Hall as Pip, Austin Smith as David and David McElwee as Freddie photos by Kyle Froman By Marc Miller A succinct verdict on How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, was offered up by a much-loved theater critic: “Well, it’s my favorite Sarah Ruhl play so…
Johanna Day as Tracey and Michelle Wilson as Cynthia photos by Joan Marcus. By Marc Miller If, like 65 million other Americans, you woke up last November 9 bewildered, aghast, and wondering how, how could this have happened, you are urged to make your way to Studio 54, where Lynn Nottage’s Sweat provides some…