From show to movie and back to show. The cult 1975 movie Rocky Horror Picture Show is on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Directed by Jim Sharman, the film found its niche and as a cult favorite, has been showing somewhere in …Read more
Love transcends death. So do estates and trusts, intellectual property rights, and your grandmother’s ugly furniture. It’s just our actual bodies and consciousnesses that go kaput. (But don’t worry – Sam Altman is planning to disrupt death, as soon a …Read more
Remember when people went on psychedelic mushroom trips as part of a spiritual journey to discover themselves? I don’t. In my zillennial world, people take mushrooms to confront their annoying roommates. That’s the premise of Lanmaoa Asiatica, …Read more
It takes a while for the title character to appear in the revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s play Becky Shaw. When Becky does appear, she changes the dynamics of the play. Becky is a catalyst who doesn’t change from beginning to end. Instead her character …Read more
“Covenant / Binding, undying, a gift and a curse / Won’t get what you desire / You’ll get what you deserve.” Such is the theme at the heart of Blood/Love, the seductive and spine-tingling new pop opera currently spooking audiences at Theater 555 thro …Read more
Is madness inherited? Is genius inherited? Are the two connected? These are some of the questions posed in Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play in 2001. When an aging parent needs help, often one child in the family assumes the …Read more
I’m a musical theater nerd and love classic Broadway musicals. Even though they may be dated now, I still have an affection for them. So when the television show called Schmigadoon aired in 2021 on Apple TV, parodying old musicals I became an enthusi …Read more
What is comedy? Countless books have been written describing, explaining, analyzing and dissecting the genre. Yet we know it when we see it and Fallen Angels, the Noel Coward 1952 comedy of manners, is one of the funniest plays on Broadway. Although …Read more
Young girls often have BFFs (best friends) with whom they share everything. They swear to be besties forever, and sometimes they actually remain friends over the years. Through school, jobs, boyfriends and even husbands, the close friendships remain. …Read more
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – The Fear of 13: Surviving Death Row. Nicholas Yarris was convic …Read more
