Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Photos by Paul McCarthy by Eugene Paul An extremely rare theatrical happenstance is taking place at 59E59 Theaters: a star is aborning. A blazing star. If you pull yourself together and hasten, you may be one of the fortunate beings to witness, to experience this once in a lifetime zing. She’s exploding…
Jack DiFalco, Zane Pais photo credit Monique Carboni By David Schultz Reprehensible, creepy, intriguing, extremely poorly acted, unintelligible at times, oddly paced, and stomach churning. This newly revised play written by Philip Ridley does have some interesting ideas buried deep within its bowels. But the sheer unpleasantness of sitting through this miasma of pointlessness…
Sorcha Fox and Donal O’Kelly Photos by Pat Redmond by Eugene Paul Well, now, Irish charm, famous in song and story, does it again in the persons Donal O’Kelly and Sorcha Fox, two of the most endearing, beguiling, twist-round-your-little-finger Irish performers you’d ever have the pleasure to meet and if it wasn’t for the…
©Joan Marcus From left: Joe Paulik, Gabriel Brown and Maureen Anderman in ‘Love & Money’ by Eugene Paul There’s a slight chance that A.R. Gurney, playwright purveyor of things WASPy, is writing a parody of his own work on the world he’s made his own in so many of his plays, but don’t hold…
Darien Crago (Ginger Rogers) and Jeremy Benton (Fred Astaire). Photos by John Vecchiolla by Eugene Paul If you were ungallant enough to compare the star original, Ginger Rogers, to her enactor, Darien Crago, star of the current bio-musical Backwards in High Heels, you’d end up with our silver screen favorite winning big in the…
By Parker Sargent David Auxier has penned a musical called The Engaygement, that keeps with the tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan (clearly his greatest influences), but brings their style of humor and pathos into the twenty-first century. With a cast of only six performers, Auxier has found a way to tell a big story…
Photo by Parker Sargent By Parker Sargent Event promoter Daniel Nardicio is on a mission to bring us gay icons from music, comedy and theater- without ever having to leave the comfort of the beautiful beach. His summer series is an annual gift to Fire Island, and there is no doubt that each…
Elizabeth Claire Walker and Daniel Applebaum in “Anomie,” photo by Nir Arieli By R. Pikser Claudia Schreier’s evening of works at the Ailey Center was the culmination of her year-long mentorship by The Breaking Glass Project, started in 2013 in New York by Ellenore P. Scott of ELSCO Dance and Nathalie Matychak of MATYCHAK…
Photos by Parker Sargent By Parker Sargent If you’ve ever been to a Hedda Lettuce show, you know her style…she’s brassy, thoughtful, cutting edge and if you find yourself in her satirical gaze, she can seem a little cutthroat. But the fabulous thing about Hedda is that it all comes from a place…
Photo by Jeannie by Jeanne Lieberman Finding Netherland Definition of nether by Merriam-Webster Located toward the bottom or more distant part of something That more distant part is, to use another euphemism, our “privates’ but Ms Cho certainly does not keep them private for long. The major part Margaret Cho’s hour and a half performance…