By Bart Greenberg***Playwright David McDonald‘s Ella the Ungovernable (recently produced at Theater for the New City) tells the tale of a time in the early 1930s when the teenage Ella Fitzgerald spent some months in […]
By Bart Greenberg***Early in the new musical revue The World According to Micki Grant, the quartet of talented and charming performers who make up the cast invite the audience to “step into my world and […]
By Bart Greenberg***Downtown’s Party Clown of the Rich and Famous/The Hungry Mind Buffet is the rather unwieldy title for a full evening of short plays presented by Crystal Field for the Theater for the New […]
By Bart Greenberg***A Final Toast, currently playing at the Chain Theater, is a fascinating mix of family drama and ethnic/religious issues. The former is much more strongly dealt with. The work by Michele A. Miller […]
By Chris Struck***Stupid Boring Straight People surprised me in a good way, moving quickly towards the most awkward, cringe-worthy and yet relatable laughs. By putting not just relationships but the strangeness of modern dating on […]
By Bart Greenberg***As the audience settled into their seats, the mood for the coming show, Witchland, was established with distant sirens, knocking and laughter coming from uncertain directions, verging on hysterics. Suddenly the house is […]
By Marilyn Lester***The thing about a window is that the view goes two ways: you can look out of a window for a glimpse of the world outside, or you can peer into a window […]
By Marilyn Lester***Fans of the intensely prolific Charles Busch will have much to laud in his latest vehicle, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy, playing at Primary Stages. As always, conceived and written by Busch, […]
By Marilyn Lester***It’s the 1960s and Baby Boomers rule—it was the heyday then for twenty-somethings, and it’s the setting of the Off-Broadway musical, A Sign of the Times. Chock full of the groovy, toe-tapping music […]
By Chris Struck***For those curious about the storied and rich history of Russian art, Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin In Our Own Words, created by Dmitry Krymovat, at The Bric, explored an “artist with words,” describing poet […]
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