Eric Overmyer’s 1985 play On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning—revived by The Attic Theater Company at Walkerspace—follows three intrepid explorers from 1888, bushwhacking their way through Terra Incognita and turning up more than they bargained …Read more

Leaning about your family history can be fascinating. But how often will strangers share your enthusiasm for stories about the lives of your parents and grandparents? Not especially often, I would guess. Claudine Cassan-Jellison beat the odds with “J …Read more

“Marilyn in Fragments”—Marissa Mulder’s new show, directed by Sondra Lee and performed at the Laurie Beechman Theatre—doesn’t follow the format of an ordinary cabaret “tribute” show. In her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe, Mulder doesn’t break character …Read more

Before the filmed versions of their Broadway successes The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers pulled the Marx Brothers into Hollywood immortality, there was their 1924 Broadway debut, I’ll Say She Is. The show—which had played on the road for 18 months be …Read more

Part of Minda Larsen’s prize package for winning last summer’s MetroStar Talent Challenge at the Metropolitan Room was a four-performance engagement at the club. Called “My Southern Song” and directed by Marilyn Maye, the resulting show has arrived. …Read more

Throughout her long acting and singing career, Sally Kellerman has been known for her offbeat qualities. She started working in movies and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but her devil-may-care breeziness served her especially well in t …Read more

At one point during the opening night of her Café Carlyle debut show, “An Evening of My Favorite Songs,” Chita Rivera noted that she has been running around for years just being her 35-year-old self, without noticing exactly how much time has elapsed …Read more

Pioneering American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, who rose to prominence during the 1940s and dominated the airwaves in the 1950s, has become a storied figure in the decades since his 1965 death. With his brooding eyes, deep and authoritativ …Read more

Among the more enjoyable productions I’ve seen in New York in recent years have been stripped-down versions of classic and new works directed by Austin Pendleton. Among them was a highly satisfying 2013 take on Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré (for th …Read more

I tend to forget that Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 comedy The School for Scandal isn’t a verse play. Except for its prologue and epilogue, it is prose. But the rhythms of Sheridan’s comic vernacular have a bright, lyrical quality. Not for nothing …Read more