By EUGENE PAUL Werner Heisenberg gave the world of quantum physics his Uncertainty Principle in 1927: the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known and vice versa. And even though the Heisenberg name is blazoned as the play’s title, that’s the last of…
Sheldon Harnick, Margery Gray Harnick, Penny Fuller, Charles Strouse, Anita Gillette Photos by Maryann Lopinto By Marc Miller Want to know why the finale to the 27th New York Cabaret Convention (that’s right, it’s been around since 1990) was a can’t-miss? Simply glance at the subtitle: A Salute to Sheldon Harnick and…
Colin Donnell, Steven Reineke, Laura Osnes and Nathan Gunn photo by Richard Termine by Julia Polinsky In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the original staging of My Fair Lady, the opening concert of the 2016 New York Pops season offered up the lovely music of Lerner and Loewe. How wonderful it was, to…
Andy Striph and Mary Adams Photos by Michael Blase By Marc Miller Folk music is not at the forefront of American popular culture these days. There was the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis a couple of years back, and Christopher Guest and the Second City bunch’s hilarious A Mighty Wind some years before…
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney (Photo: Joan Marcus) By Ron Cohen The fun stuff at Oh, Hello on Broadway starts with the Playbill. As expected, it contains headshots of the show’s two creators and performers, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, but under their photos, are two much more recognizable guys you didn’t know…
Jimoon Cole, Nilaja Sun and cast photos by Russ Rowland By Ron Cohen A provocative and slimmed down adaptation of Ibsen’s drama of civic corruption vibrates with timely relevance “People who don’t vote should be arrested and charged with evasion of duty,” says a character early on in Public Enemy. It’s…
photos by Robbie Jack By Ron Cohen If you ever had a hankering to journey through the exotic and fabled rainforests of Brazil, The Encounter, the profoundly stunning one-person show conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, may well change your mind. As a vicarious experience, it is surely a trip worth…
Photo Credit: Jeff Farkash by Julia Polinsky Wandering Bark’s speed-dating pace cuts Ibsen’s problem play down to a 90-minute, high-concept version. Clickbait-worthy headlines on the promotional material (“Hedda Tesman (nee Gabler) has everything, but wants none of it.”), and those parentheses around her name: these clues, among others, send you all kinds…
By Nicholas Linnehan Every once in a while, you go to an event that truly makes you feel like a child again. Cirque de Soleil’s current production, Kurios, is so creative that one enters into its magical world and never wants to leave. From artistry to comedy, this show has it…
Phillip James Brannon I Joan Marcus Nat Turner in Jerusalem By Ron Cohen A powerful play and a discomfiting depiction of the malaise bred by slavery on the American soul. The hot buttons of racism get pushed with poetic fervor and chilling contemporary resonance in Nathan Alan Davis’s Nat Turner in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem of…