Suzanne Tanner’s Beyond Me: A Song Cycle in the Key of Survival, is a solo effort and it is not. It is very much a collaboration on the stage at Theatre Row, and of an extremely intimate nature. Tanner presents, in multimedia and relying on extensive …Read more
When you take your seat at The Tank for Rule of 7×7, an evening of seven new plays each following the same seven rules, you may think you overstepped the theater and stumbled into a reunion for an extremely large and unusually loving family. The spac …Read more
If the unlikely conjugation of that title throws you, it should. Teach, Teacher, Teachest is not theater of the absurd; it is theater of the certifiable, in keeping with the Ionesco classic, The Lesson, inspiring it. David Koteles’s play is also (pi …Read more
Pluck the characters out of classic drama, spin them around, and set them in motion in variations of the story they have inhabited forever. It’s an exciting device, which Tom Stoppard beautifully put on the map with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are D …Read more
It’s bothersome to be old and crusty, and have a new, young playwright shatter your conviction that talent is a thing of the past. This is exactly what occurred to me upon seeing Colin Drucker’s Mother’s Day as part of the New York International Frin …Read more
If nothing else, Walter Ventosilla’s adaptation and direction of Oedipus reflects extraordinary ambition. This is an interpretation designed not to deconstruct the Sophocles classic, but to re-imagine its meaning through a single actress. Emely Grisa …Read more
About five kinds of frustration occur when the curtain comes down on Colin Drucker’s Mother’s Day, presented as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, and all arise from the fact that this is a play with seriously important potential and …Read more
In reviews, as in all reporting, major pragmatic realities must be made known upfront. It is then necessary to convey right away that Daniele Scattina’s Clan Macbeth is performed in Italian. This may well discourage those not conversant in that fluid …Read more
Disney, rarely shy about touting its upcoming attractions, is very much going all-out this year; a fat, full five-month ballyhoo before its Christmas release of the filmed Sondheim/Lapine musical, Into the Woods, and a trailer out as of yesterday. Wh …Read more
Two disclaimers: this is not a new version of the Richard Rodgers 1962 musical, No Strings, and; this reviewer confesses to having had pre-curtain anxiety. As in a disinclination to see a play about three gay men struggling with sexual entitlement (i …Read more
