By R. Pikser In this latest program of drumming with a bit of metal percussion, Dadan 2017, the 14 male drummers of the troupe Kodo, directed by Tamasaburo Bando, explore sound and timbre, rhythm and movement. In these days of ultra-speed, one is tempted to dismiss repetition as something tedious; on the contrary,…
MONIQUE CARBONI By Eugene Paul Everything old is ghoulishly new again, Everyman is now Everybody and the sting remains. Here begynneth a treatise how ye hye fader of heven sendeth dethe to somon every creature to come and gyve a counte of theyr lyves in the worlde, and is in maner of a…
Jennifer Ikeda, Molly Ranson, and Janie Dee photo by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul British star Janie Dee is Linda, stunning, successful, now 55. She wants it to mean something. Right off the bat, capturing the whirlwind success that Linda is and has become is the whirlwind setting by Walt…
Jordan Lage as Richard and Chris Bauer as Charles photos by Doug hamilton By Ron Cohen Psychiatry, journalism, the law and the Old Testament all get knocked pretty hard in David Mamet’s The Penitent. Summing up the play’s general attitude early on, the protagonist declares, “Human nature is evil.” Mamet’s misanthropic leanings can…
by Deirdre Donovan Tracy Letts’ Man From Nebraska is the opposite of a feel-good theater experience. But any theatergoer who misses the current mounting of Letts’ 2003 play at Second Stage Theatre, deftly directed by David Cromer, will be the poorer. This play is in the vein of many other Letts’ works (think…
L to R: Matthew Scott, Rebecca Luker, Nikki Renée Daniels, Allison Blackwell, Lewis Cleale Photo credit: Richard Termine By Deirdre Donovan The 92nd Street Y “Lyrics & Lyricists” program recently presented “Let’s Misbehave,” a whirlwind tour of the art and life of the great American songwriter Cole Porter. Written and hosted by…
L-R: John Epperson, Matthew Broderick, Jill Eikenberry, Annapurna Sriram, Larry Pine, Claudia Shear By Ron Cohen Playwright Wallace Shawn has no compunctions about letting his characters talk on and on and on… So, it’s fitting that his latest effort, being presented by The New Group, is entitled Evening at the Talk House. And…
By Ron Cohen Steven Levenson, who has apparently hit pay dirt with his book for the new Broadway hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, scores again with If I Forget, a rich family drama being given an exemplary Off-Broadway production by Roundabout Theatre Company. The play takes us deeply into the complexities of life…
Annaleigh Ashford and Jake Gyllenhaal Photos Credit Matthew Murphy Sunday in the Park with George By Jeanne Lieberman They bill it as a “Special Event” maybe because it is the first production in Broadway’s oldest theater, the painstakingly re- renovated 100 year old Hudson Theater. Its muted atmosphere a strange foil for a…
by Eugene Paul Over the years, the venerable Palace Theatre has witnessed towering egos trumpeting their treasured arts within its gilded splendors making it the perfect setting for the current explosion now waging battle for dominance on its great stage between two huge egos: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Close, neither of…