William Shakespeare’s Pericles, directed by Trevor Nunn for Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, is an amalgamation of so many Shakespearean plays. It’s like The Tempest and Twelfth Night with its multiple shipwrecks. It has …Read more
Arriving into The Grand Paradise feels very much like what we have come to imagine as ideal travel: a pink hued, Pan Am-fantasia in which we are invited to leave all our troubles behind and succumb to the promise of what lies ahead. Travelers are wel …Read more
The curtain at Colman Domingo’s Dot shows a two-story house done in the pointillistic technique, which will make audience members think of one of two things: Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George or the establishing shot in a sitcom. Whil …Read more
Director Anthony Minghella’s sumptuous and visually stunning production of Madama Butterfly is matched perfectly to the sweeping lush melodies of Giacomo Puccini. Lovingly directed and choreographed by Carolyn Choa, Mr. Minghella’s widow (Mr. Minghe …Read more
Buried Child is suffused with doom. From the creaking foundations of the old house in which it is set, to the emotionally and physically crippled members of the family, the play grips you not in loud, overwrought tones, but in an insidious, mischievo …Read more
One of the sleepers of the off-Broadway season, Stephen Karam’s The Humans snagged the kinds of reviews that lead to Pulitzer talk (well, if Hamilton weren’t in the race) and uptown aspirations. Sure enough, the dysfunctional family comedy-drama, whi …Read more
Traveling to Britain in winter months is an economical way to experience the varied pleasures of London theatre, especially if you purchase your flight and lodging months in advance. Earlier this month I spent a week in London, checking in on a range …Read more
The acting in The Good Girl is often frustratingly projected slightly away from the audience and the staging is slightly unbalanced at times. It is worth making that the first line of this review, and getting it out of the way, elsewise it would be a …Read more
The term that most aptly defines Defendant Maurice Chevalier, Alexis Chevalier’s play about his great-granduncle, is structure; structure with regards to both the play itself and with regards to what this play represents. Regarding the play, it is th …Read more
Does the fact that there is a $55 billion-a-year beauty industry bother you? Do you ever wonder if you are wearing that lipstick because you chose it or if you’re just being controlled by a patriarchal consumer-driven society? Non-profit social theat …Read more
