JOY A New True Musical The story of Joy Mangano, a single mom from Long Island who through her tenacity and ingenuity, becomes a millionaire, is inspirational. She created household products and made millions. A 2015 film starring Jennifer Lawrence g …Read more

Rolling Thunder :A Rock Journey How do you describe the horrors of war to an audience through the music of its time? Australian journalist and writer Bryce Hallett undertook the difficult task of conveying the hardships, senselessness and destruction …Read more

Four privileged young men from an elite school are about to participate in the most important debate of their high school career. They will be competing against the girls from their own school, and their topic is “that feminism has failed women.” The …Read more

I rarely go to see a show without having a good sense of what it’s about. Yet that’s exactly what happened recently when I saw the revival of “Heathers The Musical” at New World Stages. I expected a “Mean Girls” where the underdogs win out against th …Read more

When we first meet Ralph, the main character in “Angry Alan,” the 85 minute play by Penelope Skinner at the intimate Studio Seaview, he isn’t angry. Portrayed by John Krasinski who played the genial Jim on tv’s “The Office,” how could he be? Jim was …Read more

Comedy is an art, and it isn’t easy. What some find amusing, others barely snicker at. Humor comes from wordplay and language, action, innuendo and exquisite timing. We can all agree on the universality of drama- loneliness, illness, depression and d …Read more

It’s December 17, 1957, and we are in the audience for the taping of the last Nat King Cole show. Cole was the first African-American to host a variety show and it was groundbreaking. Although the show had some local sponsors like Rheingold Beer, it …Read more

Set in a struggling barbershop in Harlem,in the 1950’s, “Ceremonies in Dark Old Men” by Lonnie Elder III focuses on the family of Russell B. Parker (a fine Norm Lewis) and his adult children. Parker’s business was unsuccessful so his wife worked to s …Read more

Composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson died before achieving success. He posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his groundbreaking musical “Rent”. The musical began Off- Broadway in 1996, but tragically, Larson died f …Read more

“It’s really hard to do anything when you don’t have much to look forward to. Because then you’re just stuck in the present. There’s nothing to do in the present. It’s here and then it’s gone. The present can be so… empty. So random. Something to loo …Read more