Godlight Theatre Company’s Cool Hand Luke begins how it ends. In the Brechtian-mode, it doesn’t pull any punches as to where Luke Jackson, convict, plumber and liberator, will end. A boot hill grave is written in this man’s stars and so, when the cho …Read more
NEWARK, NJ (April 22, 2015)—The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra celebrates the Great White Way with “Broadway Spectacular” NJSO POPS concerts May 30–31 in Newark and New Brunswick, respectively. Conductor Todd Ellison— music supervisor for the acclaime …Read more
Once, when I tried to argue that reality and game show TV is at an all time, depraved high, my father laughingly countered with Queen for a Day, a show that ran in the 1950s and ’60s when he was a kid, featuring female contestants who competed with o …Read more
According to The Broadway League, since 1984 there have been between 28 to 46 new shows on Broadway each season, which is why it’s astounding to realize that between June 1,1963 and May 31,1964, a whopping 68 new productions made their Broadway debut …Read more
While moviegoers continued flocking to the theaters to see Thor, Captain America and the Hulk battle it out against Ultron in The Avengers sequel, on May 4th at Carnegie Hall there was a different kind of superhero assembly, as the brightest stars of …Read more
Arriving in New York in the very season when Bruce Jenner’s personal revelations have put questions about gender in the headlines, Viola di Mare is certainly timely. The monodrama, written and acted by Isabella Carloni, underscores the ways in which …Read more
Our first love may fade over the years, but it never truly goes away. In his original play the lighthouse invites the storm, titled after Malcolm Lowry’s first collection of poetry, Josh Drimmer explores what happens when one willingly revisits those …Read more
Having been so impressed with The Gallery Players’ previous production, the lighthearted and ensemble-focused The Baker’s Wife, I was somewhat taken aback by the company’s darker and disjointed production of Evita. Not that the two shows should be co …Read more
SEE or SKIP: The Heidi Chronicles VENUE: Broadway’s Music Box Theater, to May 3, 2015. INFO: Theatergoers have just a few more performances to catch Pam MacKinnon’s staging of The Heidi Chronicles, Pam MacKinnon’s revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s 1989 …Read more
Having just had the pleasure of seeing Fiasco Theatre’s brilliant production of Into the Woods with Roundabout Theatre Company, I was very much looking forward to their take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Theatre for a New Audience at the Polons …Read more
