By Rachel Goddard For the past eighty-four years, the Radio City Rockettes have faithfully reminded us just how magical New York is at Christmas. In the largest indoor theater in the world, this Christmas tradition has charmed audiences of tourists and New Yorkers alike ushering in the Holiday season. The Radio City Rockettes…
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig photos by Chad Batka By Ron Cohen Conceptual director Sam Gold and cohorts take on William Shakespeare’s Othello with no holds barred in this hotly anticipated New York Theatre Workshop production. It’s a good, sometimes violent tussle, but the two who emerge indisputably victorious from this three-hour-plus fray…
Photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen “You have so much information, you want to say everything, it’s very hard to stick to the point.” So says Aaron Port, the writer who is both the narrator and central character in Richard Greenberg’s play, The Babylon Line, just as he is about to wrap things up….
A Review by Deirdre Donovan At the end of David Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, the titular comet descends from the flies and comes into twinkling view at center stage at the Imperial Theatre. It’s a stunning spectacle that is matched in grandeur only by the whole emotional impact of this…
photo by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan There are few plays that hold a mirror up to life with such intensity as Richard Nelson’s three-play cycle The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family. His third installment in the series, Women of a Certain Age, opened at the Public Theater (at the LuEsther…
Autumn Hurlbert, Allison Guinn, Paige Faure, Janet Dacal by Julia Polinsky In A Taste of Things to Come, director and choreographer Lorin Latarro does a smashing job with a tight ensemble that works so well with each other, it’s easy to believe in these women and fall in love with their stories. Curtain up lands…
Written by: Tom Schulman Directed and adapted by: John Doyle By Rachel Goddard Almost thirty years since Dead Poets Society inspired us to seize the day on the silver screen, director John Doyle (The Color Purple) takes Tom Schulman’s Academy Award winning script to the stage. Presented by Classic Stage Company, Dead Poets Society features…
Christian Borle, Anthony Rosenthal, Stephanie J. Block photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Somewhere you’ve heard that Theatre is the collaboration and fusion of hearts, minds, talents, money, good intentions, love, hate, egos, wisdom, beauty, ugliness, foolishness, brutality, compassion, hindsight, foresight and joy. Sorrow, too. And once in a blue moon, everything works….
George Salazar, Nick Blaemire, Ciara Renee photo by David Gersten By Eugene Paul Bearing unmistakable signs of Jonathan Larson’s original, passionate monologue depicting his delightfully awful struggle to do what he simply had to do: make words and music for the theater, Keen Company artistic director Jonathan Silverstein with the enormous help of David…
Corey Stoll and Rachel Weisz Photo credit: Joan Marcus. by Eugene Paul We arrive in timely fashion at the hustle and bustle of the Public Theater, its snack bar front and center busily purveying whatevers, and to one side and another individual giving away tickets. Hmmm. Later, when we’ve thought about it, what’s additionally discomfiting is…