The House on Poe Street, playing now at the 14th Street Y, strives to create humor out of pathos. It’s a tricky piece of work, living somewhere between black and romantic comedy. The challenge is intriguing, attempting to bring humor to a dark subjec …Read more
Who needs eight actors when one can do it brilliantly? If the actor in question is David Greenspan, then I bet you already know the answer. David Greenspan is revelatory in his six-hour one-man show Strange Interlude, by Eugene O’Neill. An interlude …Read more
What if everything you believe is wrong? (I once asked this of very religious actress friend of mine.) What if there is no God? What if Jesus wasn’t the Son of God? Her answer haunts me to this day. She looked me straight in the eye and said, “Then I …Read more
“I think it is beautiful, what he did. I think he is brave.” That was Maria Alyokhina’s response during the interview section of the new performance piece by Belarus Free Theatre’s Burning Doors. It was a question posed to her by an audience member r …Read more
The sets are gorgeous, the costumes are gorgeous and frankly, Annette O’Toole is really, really gorgeous, too. Oh, sure, they’ve tried to tone her down, as the acidulous and earthy Mrs. Fisher in George Kelly’s The Show-Off, produced by the Peccadill …Read more
Andy Halliday’s new play at Theatre for the New City, Up the Rabbit Hole, is a tale sweetly told, autobiographical in nature and well cast (kudos to David McDermott). Evenly directed by G.R. Johnson, the play lays out the story of a young dancer, Jac …Read more
TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) was an Off-Broadway theater company run by the inimitable Doric Wilson, whose passing was felt deeply by the Off- and Off-Off Broadway theatre community he served so well. Fortunately, the company was resurrected in …Read more
Missing the New York International Fringe Festival this year? Hungry for great off-off Broadway theatre? No worries, The Arctic Group at the IRT Theatre has plenty of food for thought at NY Fridge Fest, with ten playwrights, five different programs o …Read more
Florence Foster Jenkins, speaking of her struggle to be an accomplished artist, once observed that although some people said she couldn’t sing, they could never say she didn’t sing. It’s a moment of dignity and tragedy and accomplishment all in a mom …Read more
The first thing I can say about the ingeniously funny Small Town Confessions is summed up in three words: Phil Geoffrey Bond. Both the playwright and one of the actors in the production I saw at at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Bond creates a …Read more
