By Eugene Paul In 1910, when Sholem Asch was 50 years old, he scandalized the world of the Jewish Theatre with God of Vengeance, his play about the Jewish owner of a brothel, his wife, an ex-prostitute, seeking to gain respectability through the marriage of their carefully sheltered, innocent daughter to a rabbi’s…
Photos by Jeremy Daniel By Eugene Paul Broadway professionals are incredibly good, better than they’ve ever been before. We’ve grown to expect this absolute best and the wonderful people who create the performances delighting, astounding, moving us dig deeper every time to please, not just us, but themselves, every bit…
Photo by Richard Termine By Stewart Schulman “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” would have been an apt titling for the NY Pops 34th anniversary Gala at Carnegie Hall on May 1st—an event honoring the long-time working relationship between two titans of the Broadway theater, actress Kelli O’hara and director Bartlett Sher. …
Christy Altomare and Derek Klena photos by Matthew Murphy by Marc Miller What Anastasia has, and it’s welcome because it’s lacking to some degree in virtually every other new musical of the past several seasons, is craft. Scan the credits: book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens—the trio…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Marc Miller How au courant, how up-to-the-minute Six Degrees of Separation seemed in 1990. John Guare’s serious comedy, based on a then-recent true incident that happened to two of his friends, served up a tumult of contemporary issues in its 90 tightly packed minutes: race; sex; rich vs….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…