Everly begins in a bathroom, where the title character (played by Salma Hayek) has locked herself in, as she hides from a group of men who don’t seem like they want to have tea and cookies with her. Tension rises as Everly reaches for a handgun. At f …Read more
The Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to become a bona fide cult classic. The original cast recording featuring No …Read more
Tony-winner Lillias White has the kind of voice that’s both majestic and soothing, qualities that perfectly fit the real-life character she’s currently playing onstage in Alan Govenar’s Texas in Paris. White plays Osceola Mays, an elderly Texan widow …Read more
In Rasheeda Speaking, Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins plays Jaclyn, an office worker pitted against her co-worker Ileen (played by Oscar winner Dianne Wiest) when claims of arrogance and incompetence against the former, force the latter to supervise her ev …Read more
Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch is half a biting satire about the world of fashion, half a story about a woman trying to find her true self. The plot is composed of two storylines that eventually complement each other, the first one set in 19 …Read more
When Adah Isaacs Menken died in 1868, at the very young age of 33, she left behind a legacy that included several failed marriages, friendships with the likes of Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas and George Sand, not to mention a legendary performance …Read more
It’s the year 1979 and when we first meet Osceola Mays (Lillias White) and John Burrus (Scott Wakefield) they are in a Texan airport waiting room, making time before their flight to Paris departs. Mays, an African American widow, and Burrus, an all-A …Read more
The nine vignettes that compose John Cariani’s touching Love/Sick are miniature tragedies disguised as romantic comedy situations; ranging from infidelity to murder, they all touch on issues that plague people who enter romantic relationships expecti …Read more
The lights go on, and to the left of the stage we see Winston Churchill (Ronald Keaton); he’s working on a painting, cigar in hand, as he notices the audience sitting behind him. Without much of an acknowledgement, he dives right into explaining what …Read more
It’s the year 1702, and physician John Floyer (Michael Zlabinger) and his wife Charlotte (Stephanie Wright Thompson) are living in China, where the doctor intends to learn as much as possible about the medicinal methods of the East. In order to do so …Read more
