Encompass New Opera Theater celebrated it’s 2014 Gala at the National Arts Club by gathering together the who’s who of musical theater for a concert honoring Tony and Academy Award winning legend Joel Grey and award winning composer Jeanine Tesori. T …Read more
Unexpressed grief is the powerful unseen force behind all the characters in Elaine Smith’s play Angels and Ministers of Grace, premiering at New Jersey Repertory Company, a marvelous small theater in Long Branch, NJ dedicated to nurturing and produci …Read more
Good Enough, written and performed by Matthew LaBanca and part of the United Solo Festival, explores territory that most of us experience at some point in our lives: the struggle to believe that we are enough, just as we are. A quadrupl …Read more
With poetic dialogue and powerful imagery, playwright Catherine Filloux in her new play Selma ’65 has written a beautiful solo vehicle for actress Marietta Hedges. Based in part on the true events surrounding the civil rights movement and the Selma V …Read more
The terrible beauty of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is how it deeply reveals the cause of human unhappiness. To quote the Buddha, suffering comes from attachment and the inability to accept what is. Each of the main four characters in The Pearl Theatr …Read more
Red Eye of Love, an old-fashioned musical with a few absurd twists, delivers an enjoyable and refreshing evening of fun. Produced by Amas Musical Theatre and playing at the Dicapo Theatre, Red Eye of Love gives the kind of pleasure one gets from Four …Read more
Actress and playwright Libby Skala mines her rich family heritage for some incredible stories. Felicitas is the last solo play in a trilogy about her grandmother and her two great aunts and is part of 2014 FringeNYC. Set in Vienna, against the backdr …Read more
Kunstler, by award winning Chicago playwright and author Jeffrey Sweet, tells the story of William Kunstler, a self-described “radical lawyer” and civil rights activist played brilliantly by Nick Wyman. The 90-minute play, presented at the Steve and …Read more
‘I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.’ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov His Majesty, The Devil is a family affair. The actors playing the Visitor (MacIntyre Dixon) and …Read more
As I watched Mohammad Rahmanian’s play Interview at the New York International Fringe Festival, I was reminded of the 1966 film The Battle of Algiers. I saw the latter years ago, and was haunted by the intense images director Gillo Pontecorvo used to …Read more
