In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing about the play except for its leads, veterans of FX’s popular …Read more
Sometimes one performer in a small cast stands out among the rest. That’s one of the problems with the revival of “Between Riverside and Crazy,” the 2015 Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Stephen McKinley Henderson, theatrical jour …Read more
What if everything you believe is wrong? (I once asked this of very religious actress friend of mine.) What if there is no God? What if Jesus wasn’t the Son of God? Her answer haunts me to this day. She looked me straight in the eye and said, “Then I …Read more
Judas Iscariot is one of history’s greatest ciphers: no one seems to know what to make of him, and the Biblical portrait of the infamous traitor leaves many questions unanswered. In The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis pro …Read more
