By David Schultz Man’s best friend has taken up residence at the Cort Theater in Manhattan. In the tantalizing guise of actress Annaleigh Ashford, this human as canine puppy is redolent in her splendor capering around the stage seeking the love of a new family. The family in question Greg (Matthew Broderick) and wife Kate…
By Eugene Paul If you’re going to find yourself in a nursing home – oops – an adult living facility, who wouldn’t want to take over the whole, pleasant space we see if all you had to do was make yourself poisonous to anyone designated to share those desirable quarters in upscale…
R. Pikser Since 1982 Donald Byrd has headed Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, Washington, and the work of the dancers in this company meets the standards of his previous companies, no mean feat. Mr. Byrd has long been a socially engaged choreographer, and this evening length piece, a revisiting of a 1991 work is…
Kristine Nielsen, Tom Phelan Photos: Joan Marcus by Michall Jeffers Every now and then a play comes along that’s so specific, people either love it or hate it. This season, we have HIR. Burning topics of the day are pushed to the extreme; the audience either roars with laughter, or sits in bewildered silence….
They recounted anecdotes from their personal and public lives besides the opening of the bio-musical On Your Feet What are Gloria and Emilio Estefan up to nowadays? In two words, Broadway theater. With the opening of On Your Feet at the Marquis Theater on November 5th, inspired by the Estefans’ life and music, the Cuban-born…
by R. Pikser In the early 1960s Martin Duberman culled historical records of both Blacks and whites. With this information, he wrote a play about the Black experience in the United States: In White America. His selection of materials and how he arranged them, made those records live. It must have been gratifying,…
by Marc Miller When Dames at Sea was announced for the Broadway stage, the main worry was: Would bigger be better? The formerly off-Broadway musical by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller (book and lyrics) and Jim Wise (music), a 1968 hit that first got Bernadette Peters noticed, satirizes the large Warner Brothers Busby…
Amar Ramasar and Megan Dickinson of Kathryn Posin Dance – photo by Lois Greenfield By R. Pikser Both Kathryn Posin and Momchil Mladenov have worked extensively internationally and the quality of their work shows why. Mr. Mladenov, former principal dancer with the National Ballet of Bulgaria and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet has brought dance artists…
Sandra Mae Frank and Austin P. McKenzie photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan You’ve got to hand it to Deaf West Theatre for reviving the rock musical Spring Awakening on Broadway this season. After all, the memory of Steven Sater’s and Duncan Sheik’s 2006 Spring Awakening, which snagged 8 Tony Awards and launched…
If you like neat, tidy plays that lay out everything in an easy to digest manner, with a comfortable resolution, don’t go to this play. If you relish seeing a play that strikes out for unknown territories, that disturbs and provokes in equal measure then make a beeline to the play in question. This wide-ranging…