“Who chooses to fight and who stays silent?” playwright Erika Sheffer asks in a program note. Not counting potential savior Aleksei Navalny, there have been at least seven headline deaths of those who crusaded against…
Subtitled Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime, The Wall of Life, “an ongoing project,” is, in essence, a scrapbook modeled after a wall in MacLaine’s home (homes) filled with photographic memories. Black and white…
Jenny Lind (1820-1887), retired from formal opera at the age of 29. Believing her voice a gift from God, she judged too many characters immoral. In 1851, the vocalist arrived in America to tour nine…
A FeeJee (or Fiji) Mermaid became commonplace in sideshows from documented first sale to a ship’s captain in 1822. Thought by unbelievers to have been created in Japan, the creature combined the torso and head…
Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving philosophical perspective…Mr. Harris (producer/director Jed Harris) has reduced theater to its lowest common denominator…
Once upon a time, about fourteen years ago, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh had a collective AHA! moment and decided what New York needed was a cabaret club, minus deficiencies they…
If you see nothing else this season, call in favors and get tickets to this limited run Kenneth Lonergan play. Originally produced in 2016, the production’s axis turns on performance by Adam Driver so authentic…
Writing for confirmed theater-goers, I could just say, if you liked The Ferryman and Jerusalem, go. Jez Butterworth is a realistic playwright in the manner of O’Neill, Williams, Miller. Themes are deeply explored. Casts are…
