By Bart Greenberg***The theater piece, Fog and Ice. is the umbrella title for three short plays presented by JHW Productions at Theater Row. Two of the works are early scripts by Eugene O’Neill and the […]
By Bart Greenberg***The Porch on Windy Hill is described as “a new play with old music.” Currently playing at Urban Stages (through February 22), the “old” music is of the folk genre—and for those not […]
By Marilyn Lester***At last: some Bacharach love worthy of the composer’s legacy as a major contributor to the ever-growing American Songbook. This new show, Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon at The Marjorie S. […]
By Bart Greenberg***The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre‘s (CAMT) production of A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan at Theater for the New City…well, oy, indeed. And if the title seems cumbersome, it’s nothing compared […]
By Marilyn Lester***Perfectly timed for the Halloween Season, the vaudeville-cum Victorianesque Dreadful Episodes at 59E59 Theaters is a fiesta of madcap macabre, a delicious mashup of the weird and fanciful, mining the dark but oh-so-clever […]
By Marilyn Lester***Immersive, dynamic, quick-witted and one heck of a lot of fun: this delightful production of Molieré’s farce, Tartuffe, headed by Tony Award® winner André De Shields in the title role, is itself an […]
By Bart Greenberg***Sometimes a writer chooses a title that makes it too easy for reviewers to make fun of the show. Such classic bombs as Alive and Kicking (review: “It isn’t”) and The House Beautiful […]
By Marilyn Lester***In 2011, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman published Thinking, Fast and Slow, a heady book about decision-making. Some years later, acclaimed playwright Jonathan Spector brought that book more or less to life in his […]
By Bart Greenberg***Poor King John. Neither history nor the arts have been kind to him. Suffering from younger brother syndrome (his eldest sibling was Richard the Lionheart), with a domineering mommy (the formidable Eleanor of […]
By Bart Greenberg***Polymath Dorothy Parker was a critic, poet, short story writer, lyricist, screenwriter, advertising copywriter, political activist and satirist, among many other genres of the written word. And conceive-director Douglas Carter Beane attempted to […]
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