The fact that I found myself thinking about Celebrity Rehab after Gary Busey’s One-Man Hamlet as performed by David Carl ended with thunderous applause at 59E59 Theaters, where it is part of the series East to Edinburg featuring previews of shows he …Read more
In SeaWife, audiences are transported to a 19th century tavern where they attend the tale of the brave Percy, who following in the footsteps of his father decides to conquer ocean’s most enigmatic creature: the leviathan. We follow the hero during hi …Read more
You may not know this. In fact, there’s no particular reason for you to know it, but July 24th is “Tell an Old Joke Day.” Yes, a day apparently exists that is devoted to recounting quips that your great-grandpappy made when he was sitting around a ca …Read more
Financial Slavery: The College Debt Sentence, produced by Strength Out of Shadows and directed by Jennifer Little and Michael Pinnix, has developed from the painful, often traumatic and all-too-familiar tales of people who have to cope with the risin …Read more
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” That voice. Those eyes. The impenetrable stare. Bette Davis was much more than a talented actress with a memorable on-screen presence. During a time when female casting meant measuring little m …Read more
Whether it’s a politically biased news anchor, or a comic discussing how men like shopping and should shut up when women watch the sports game, finding a cultural figure whose perspective isn’t polarized can be challenging. It’s always refreshing to …Read more
When Penn & Teller arrived on the scene in the early 1980s they quickly earned a reputation as magical vandals. It wasn’t just the brash attitude, the violence and the sick sense of humor they employed (remember the thousands of cockroaches skitt …Read more
Clifford Odets’ Depression-era classic, Awake and Sing!, now playing at the Public Theater, is about the Bergers, a lower middle class Jewish family living in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. The conceit in this production, put on by the National A …Read more
Ruby Preston’s third novel, Starstruck, to be released by Dress Circle Publishing on July 14th, gets real about what happens behind the flash of the bright lights of Broadway. The characters in this novel by Preston (a real-life Broadway producer) in …Read more
Ciarán O’Reilly is a founding member of The Irish Repertory Theatre, the only company in North America dedicated to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. He is also the director of The Weir, the current production at the Irish Rep, co …Read more
