John Krasinski as Analyst Turned Fighter Jack Ryan At a time when America’s intelligence agencies are being sorely tested, watching Amazon Prime’s new thriller, Jack Ryan, does little to [...] September 12, 2018
Hurricane Party – Double Disaster South Carolina. (Dialogue Coach Stephen Gabis has done a fine job finessing speech.) We open on a hot sex scene discretely shown, i.e. [...] September 12, 2018
Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House – A Smart Lark A slightly overstuffed play of sociological satire and political fervor, Heartbreak House emerges clever and bright in Gingold Theatrical [...] September 10, 2018
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin Irving Berlin (Israel Beilin) 1888-1989, was unarguably one of our greatest songwriters. Immigrating from Russia as a child, he sold [...] September 8, 2018
Private Peaceful – A Universal Soldier “I’m looking for boys with hearts of oak…what hates The Hun…” (the script) Private Tommo Peaceful is all of 16 when he enlists in [...] September 7, 2018
We Remember Him Well – A Celebration of Alan Jay Lerner Steve Ross, arguably our best interpreter of Cole Porter, Noel Coward, and possibly George Gershwin, is a maven of the undiscovered song. [...] August 30, 2018
Operation Finale – Bringing Adolf Eichmann to Justice “There were over 40,000 camps and ghettos during the Holocaust. 49% of Millennials cannot name a single one.” Results from a 2018 [...] August 29, 2018
The Wife – The Woman Behind the Man “A writer has to write.” “A writer has to be read.” A phone call in the middle of the night often means bad news, but a call from [...] August 24, 2018