Jennifer Ikeda, Raymond Lee photos by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul With great gusto, ribaldry rampant, rollicking humor and a painfully savage message, playwright Qui Nguyen revisits the Vietnam War and its aftermath through the experiences of its war tossed victims, at least those tossed into the United States, and the picture…
R. Pikser Anabella Lenzu is an Argentinian of Italian extraction who has had companies in Argentina and Italy. She also has lived and worked in the United States. The performance on this evening, at the elegant home of the Argentinian Consulate, celebrated the ten-year anniversary of Ms. Lenzu’s United States company. Although…
Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer by Julia Polinsky Adapted from a French novel published in 1782, Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses sets the scene in France, in the 1780s. A pair of bored and jaded Parisian aristocrats, former lovers Marquise de Merteuil (Janet McTeer) and Vicomte de Valmont (Liev Schreiber), decide to entertain themselves with…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Student-teacher relationships get a workout in Two Class Acts, the umbrella name for two one-acts by A. R. Gurney, being premiered in repertory at the Flea Theater. While esteemed playwright Gurney made his name as an incisive and bemused chronicler of the declining stature in…
By Eugene Paul If you want to know where The Front Page was written in 1927, it was down the road from Charlie and Helen MacArthur’s Nyack home, “Pretty Penny”, in little old Piermont, New York, at a no longer used girl’s school which he and Ben Hecht took over. And every day,…
Courtesy of Onassis Cultural Center New York. Photos by Beowulf Sheehan by Deirdre Donovan If you want to get a firm handle on Sophocles’ Antigone, look no further than Lena Kitsopoulou’s Antigone: Lonely Planet. Kitsopoulou wrote, directed, and performed in her new play, specially commissioned for the Antigone Now Festival at the Gallery at…
Elizabeth Van Dyke By R. Pikser Not only important history but breathtaking performances A theatrical biography could be tedious, but Laurence Holder’s 20 year old piece about the life of Zora Neale Hurston, mounted again in celebration of the 125th anniversary of her birth, is stunning. As narrated by Ms. Hurston at…
David Hyde Pierce By Michall Jeffers David Hyde Pierce is lovable. There’s a vulnerability and a wry humor that’s totally endearing; from the moment he steps on stage, the audience is with him. This proves to be almost a liability as the play progresses. The show opens with Pierce, as Nate Martin, delivering a…
by Deirdre Donovan Chekhov is always a tough go on Broadway. But you must admire the British director Simon Godwin, who’s at the helm of the Roundabout’s new production of The Cherry Orchard (at the American Airlines Theatre), for his courage in staging the Russian master’s last play. But in spite of Godwin’s earnest…
Patrick Graver and Jessica Ernest; photos by Michael Portantiere. By Marc Miller If you know “Funny Face” at all, it’s probably from the classic 1957 film version, which shares with its 1927 stage counterpart 1) Fred Astaire, 2) a handful of George and Ira Gershwin standards, and 3) little else. For a look at…