Once On This Island – THE New Musical to See There’s a live chicken and a goat in stylish diapers. A stew being cooked briefly burns my eyes with vapor of onions (smells good.) The [...] December 7, 2017
A Good Thing Going: The Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince Collaboration Nineteen year-old Stephen Sondheim and twenty-four year-old Harold Prince met in 1949 on opening night of South Pacific. Sondheim was the [...] December 6, 2017
It’s A Wonderful Life–A Live Radio Play—Delightful! NOW it feels like the holiday season. Escape today’s uber-fraught world for 70 glorious minutes at Irish Repertory’s intimate W. Scott [...] December 4, 2017
Indians – And What We Did to Them Arthur Kopit’s play “…muscles in on the flab of old mythologies, discovering nerves which connect us with the past… Indians become [...] December 1, 2017
The Shape of Water Is A Dreamy Escape “Time is but a river flowing from our past.” There are princesses and monsters in The Shape of Water, a sumptuous, scary, and [...] December 1, 2017
Harry Clarke -The Double Life of an Inadvertent Interloper Watching Harry Clarke I was reminded of the 1968 Pasolini film Teorama which starred Terrance Stamp in his prime. In that story, a [...] November 28, 2017
20th Century Blues – Through the Eyes of Women Why is it that civilized humanity/Can make the world so wrong?/In this hurly-burly of insanity/Our dreams cannot last long… Noel [...] November 27, 2017
The Briefly Dead – After Euripides’ Alcestis It would have helped had this entire title been used on the printed program. All we got was The Briefly Dead. ‘Could’ve been a [...] November 23, 2017