Tony-winner Lillias White has the kind of voice that’s both majestic and soothing, qualities that perfectly fit the real-life character she’s currently playing onstage in Alan Govenar’s Texas in Paris. White plays Osceola Mays, an elderly Texan widow …Read more
In Rasheeda Speaking, Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins plays Jaclyn, an office worker pitted against her co-worker Ileen (played by Oscar winner Dianne Wiest) when claims of arrogance and incompetence against the former, force the latter to supervise her ev …Read more
For his theatrical debut in New York City, Austin Smith is hitting the ground running in a big way. His lead role in An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience encompasses not one but three characters, including a portrayal of the playwright, Branden …Read more
Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch is half a biting satire about the world of fashion, half a story about a woman trying to find her true self. The plot is composed of two storylines that eventually complement each other, the first one set in 19 …Read more
When Adah Isaacs Menken died in 1868, at the very young age of 33, she left behind a legacy that included several failed marriages, friendships with the likes of Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas and George Sand, not to mention a legendary performance …Read more
Our lives are so often mundane and prosaic compared to the mischief we find in our theaters. You rarely pay your ticket price to watch someone wrestle with supermarket sales or indulge in a Netflix marathon after a tedious day of licking envelopes. V …Read more
It’s the year 1979 and when we first meet Osceola Mays (Lillias White) and John Burrus (Scott Wakefield) they are in a Texan airport waiting room, making time before their flight to Paris departs. Mays, an African American widow, and Burrus, an all-A …Read more
The nine vignettes that compose John Cariani’s touching Love/Sick are miniature tragedies disguised as romantic comedy situations; ranging from infidelity to murder, they all touch on issues that plague people who enter romantic relationships expecti …Read more
In the current wake of stage revivals and movie musicals with blockbuster names, there is one gem that stands out for stripping down the spectacle and focusing on art of storytelling. Fiasco Theatre Company’s reimagining of Stephen Sondheim and James …Read more
The lights go on, and to the left of the stage we see Winston Churchill (Ronald Keaton); he’s working on a painting, cigar in hand, as he notices the audience sitting behind him. Without much of an acknowledgement, he dives right into explaining what …Read more
