Sas Goldberg, Gideon Glick, and Rebecca Naomi Jones photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen “I’m almost twenty-nine years old and no one has ever told me they love me. That’s like a problem, isn’t it?” says Jordan Berman, the hero of Joshua Harmon’s angst-ridden comedy, Significant Other, which has come to Broadway…
Rocco Sisto, Aya Cash & Erik Lochtefeld photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Irony of ironies. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler are play crafters. The three of them generate ideas for a play, Bos and Thureen write, Butler steers the writing as much as the two authors and when…
Jimi Stanton as Gabriel. Photo by Jonathan Slaff by Julia Polinsky A great performance brightens Swedish family psychodrama Marty’s Shadow, by the Swedish playwright Stig Dagerman, dishes up enough family drama and psychological scarring to make a viewer’s heart bleed. Don’t let that put you off seeing this show; if you…
KK Moggie and Ted Koch Photo Credit: Marielle Solan By Ron Cohen The Gravedigger’s Lullaby sounds like it could be one of those Z-Grade horror flicks filling the multiplexes. It does have one genuinely horrific moment, but Jeff Talbott’s new drama is a thoughtful and articulate depiction of those subsisting on the bottom…
Tony Yazbeck Steven Reineke Caissie Levy photo by Richard Termine by Deirdre Donovan and Jeanne Lieberman The temperatures dipped below the freezing mark on March 10th. But that didn’t stop New Yorkers from crowding into Carnegie Hall to listen to the New York Pops kick off their 2017 season with terrific gems from the…
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…