Theater Review: (Broadway) ‘English’
English In Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-Prize winning play English, currently on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre, the playwright highlights how our language defines us. Thematically, Toossi’s play...
View ArticleTheater Review (Broadway): ‘Redwood’ Starring Idina Menzel
Redwood Though Redwood features information and photographic wonders of glorious redwood forests with amazing LED stagecraft and video design, the heart of the musical starring Idina Menzel reveals a...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘Measure for Measure’ by William Shakespeare, from the...
Like so many New Yorkers, the Eno River Players is a transplant, having relocated from Durham, NC just two years ago. Founder Leo Eggert writes in the program for the company’s current production of...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘no no no please no god no, nevermind i’m fine’– Sarina...
Taking a psychedelic drug like LSD can lead to revelations both euphoric and terrifying. Much feels like a nightmare in the acid trip Sarina Freda enacts for us in her funny, frantic solo show no no...
View ArticleTheater Review: ‘Curse of the Starving Class,’ Starring Christian Slater,...
Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard’s popular Curse of the Starving Class in a New Group revival thematically resonates with hunger, spiritually, psychically, emotionally. First appearing at the...
View ArticleTheater Review: ‘Liberation’
Liberation Viewing the women’s movement since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, one wonders whether the struggling waves of feminism over the years have yielded lasting results. Bess Wohl’s Liberation...
View ArticleTheater Review: ‘Ghosts,’ Starring Lily Rabe, Billy Crudup
Ghosts Henrik Ibsen’s controversial play Ghosts privately premiered in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. Produced in Danish for Danish immigrants, it dealt with themes too scandalous for a European public....
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘The Trojans,’ a New SynthWave Musical by Leegrid Stevens
There’s a classic episode of South Park where one of the boys sees the girls playing with one of those fortunetelling paper constructions you wear on your hand. Thinking it possesses real prediction...
View ArticleTheater Review (Broadway): In ‘Operation Mincemeat’ History Meets Hilarity
Operation Mincemeat Journeying from London’s West End where SplitLip’s rollicking musical Operation Mincemeat won two Olivier Awards in 2024, the original cast of five principals, who play multiple...
View ArticleTheater Review: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’– An Astonishing Sarah Snook
The Picture of Dorian Gray Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for her role as Shiv in Succession, Sarah Snook makes her debut exploding out of the Broadway gate with her shattering, one-woman,...
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