By Glenn Giron From go it’s realized that this will not be your ordinary play. You’re handed a headset and taught how to use it and funny, unorthodox, pre show announcements are expressed to you through your new little toy. You sit there excited like a kid waiting for a 4D show at an amusement park…
Tom Coppola as James and Amber Mason as Sarah by Ed Lieberman The Armonk Players are staging a timely story at Whippoorwill Hall: Time Stands Still, a Tony Award nominated play by Donald Margulies that tells what is now a familiar tale of the ravages of war, but from a slightly different perspective, and addresses some…
By Michall Jeffers Suggestion: if you have out-of-town visitors this summer, take them to see Mama Mia. At the performance I attended, the audience was filled with foreign tourists, many of them Asian, and they were having a ball. Let’s face it, the plot is simple, and the language is easy to understand for anyone with…
Thomas Sadoski and Amanda Seyfried (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) By David Schultz The initial moments of this new play holds some promise. A man stumbles out of a bedroom and fumbles around in the dim light, searching for a drink. He is awkward, out of his element, not in his own apartment, and clearly embarrassed by what…
Hosted by HEDWIG’s Darren Chris “So good to be back on Broadway again (How To Succeed, 2012) By Jeanne Lieberman It was SRO in the crowded Shubert Alley as lucky fans had a chance to see Broadway stars representing 26 musicals and plays showing off just what makes New York Theater great! A versatile…
Brad Heberlee as Sganarelle and Chris Mixon as the Statue (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) by Deirdre Donovan Don Juan–that legendary lover who faked many a marriage-can now be glimpsed on the Pearl Theatre’s boards. And with Justin Adams slipping into the skin of Moliere’s most hypocritical lover, one should seize the day and go to this new…
Ruthie Ann Miles, Jose Llana Photo by Joan Marcus by Stewart Schulman There’s a new trend in musical theater, and it seems to be taking the industry by storm. It involves attempting to tell a story with as little traditional ‘book’ as possible. For example: String a libretto of pop-rock-style songs together. Hire an…
James Godwin photos by Jim Moore By Glenn Giron We find ourselves in a futuristic Manhattan or what eventually comes to be known as NYORG. Wylie Walker, the hero of our story, narrates the piece in a film noir themed voice over that is not for a moment unappreciated – he is the maintenance man of the…
The company in “The Gondoliers” photo credit William Reynolds by Deirdre Donovan Gilbert & Sullivan’s 1889 opera The Gondoliers returns with delicious verve to NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts with the redoubtable New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP). This comic opera might not reach the exotic heights of The Mikado or…
Lawrence Jansen In Cool Hand Luke. Photo by Jason Woodruff By Russell Bouthiller Godlight Theatre’s adaptation of the novel, Cool Hand Luke, offers a gritty atmosphere, sound performances and a hard story to tell. Based on the Don Pearce novel and adapted for the stage by Emma Reeves, The Godlight Theatre Company presents Cool Hand…