by Deirdre Donovan The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys with Concert Royal resurrected Handel’s grand oratorio for the holidays. And those in the audience at Saint Thomas Church were treated to an exquisite presentation of the master’s most celebrated composition. Before commenting on the performance itself, it is well worth noting…
Mark Strong as Carbone with Phoebe Fox (left) and Nicola Walker. Photograph: Tristram Kenton By Eugene Paul On stage, left and right are banked high and deep with theater seats. Everyone is taken. Center stage, a black monolith sits on a low, transparent wall. We can see bare feet in the lighted arena…
Michele McConnell, Stephen Quint, Colm Fitzmaurice, Angela Smith, and David Wannen. Carol I’ve Got a Little Twistgg, Photography by Deirdre Donovan Gilbert and Sullivan with a Broadway twist? Well, that’s precisely the spirit and vibe behind the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP) new production of “I’ve Got a Little Twist.” The…
Kathleen Chalfant plays Rose Kennedy Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) by Deirdre Donovan Laurence Leamer’s Rose , a new one-woman bio-drama about the Kennedy matriarch, is a theatrical confection. And, with the excellent Kathleen Chalfant inhabiting Rose, we learn how the grande dame managed to brave the political winds and personal tragedies of…
Malcolm Gets, Jerry Dixon, Mario Cantone, Matt McGrath Photo by Monique Carboni. By David Schultz Jazzy Show Biz riff on middle aged gay New Yorkers settling down, and raising children. Coincidence or fate has transpired to give New York theatergoer’s two separate plays that cover the identical emotional territory onstage. This variation on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…