John Benjamin Hickey and Patrick Breen By David Schultz When a play seeks to uncover a specific demographic while trying to be all-inclusive to everyone it can be difficult to pull off successfully. Playwright Peter Parnell expertly sets up a classic scenario on the travails of gay parenthood. The reality of gay men accessible…
Hideaki Takeuchi, Naoya Oda, Yu Saito by R. Pikser Shuji Onodera was trained as a mime. Perhaps this is what gives precision to his choreography. This piece, said to be inspired by Mr. Onodera’s experiences work with students at the Metropolitan Otsuka School for the Deaf, considers desire, thwarted desire, communication, and lack…
By R. Pikser Kick is the story of a Catholic girl’s journey through life as she negotiates her experiences with religion, sex, rape, friendship, and surviving in the world of theater and of dance. The format of Kick is that most current of forms: the one person show. Joanna Rush does all the…
Darren Pettie, Jonathan Hadary, Derek Smith, James Carpinello and Jonny Orsini by Eugene Paul In this occasion of Arthur Miller’s celebratory 2015 season—100 years since his birth – Miller plays are in evidence all around town in a range from his stunning Off Broadway Yiddish production of Death of a Salesman to his…
Cherry Jones and television actor David Aaron Baker photos by Joan Marcus By Julia Polinsky At the beginning of Dear Elizabeth, Sarah Ruhl’s play inspired by the correspondence between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, two people, sitting at separate desks, read, in pools of light. A Stage Manager (Peggy Noonan) sometimes comments,…
George Takei as Sam Kimura and Lea Salonga as Kei By Julia Polinsky The show’s not called Poor Me, I Was In An Internment Camp During WWII, it’s called Allegiance. It takes a good look at where our allegiances lie: with family, with nation, with heritage, with self. Directed by the accomplished and dedicated…
JOAN MARCUS by Eugene Paul Director Will Frears, knowing that he has William Goldman’s tested and true services having successfully adapted the Stephen King flavorsome little horror epic, “Misery” to the screen as his basis for this, his stage adaptation, is still not resting easy having as his leads two of the biggest…
By Michall Jeffers There’s a great line in the movie Mississippi Burning: You marry the first boy who makes you laugh. It’s no secret that laughter is a great aphrodisiac. How else can it be explained that in pulling out all the stops to make the audience laugh, stand- up comedian Colin Quinn comes across as…
Kimberly Jenna Simon photos by Miro Magloire By R. Pikser The TuTu Trilogy is composed of three vignettes, each of which takes place in a backstage situation; two are in a rented rehearsal studio, one backstage after a performance. Author Richard Curtis is not so much exploring his situations as he is commenting…
Josh Segarra and Ana Villafane by Eugene Paul There are so many ways to look at this endearing, heart warming monster musical that it would be a shame not to enumerate some of them: first: there’s the smart money Broadway savvy, far from visionaries who see clearly that this show would be totally out of…