By Marilyn Lester***Ah, the idyllic 1950s, the Cold War era of larger-than-life Statesmen (Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Nehru, Konrad Adenauer come to mind) when the big existential crisis on the table was Soviet leader […]
By Bart Greenberg***Police sirens are heard. Searchlights roam the stage. A man in a hoodie and several days growth of beard runs into the trash-filled alley and seeks a place to hide. Thus begins *mark […]
By Bart Greenberg***Obsessed, a neo-noir thriller by David McDermott and Andy Halliday, at Theater For The New City, is an attempt to invoke the classic films of the 1940s and 50s through a gay prism. […]
By Bart Greenberg***A century ago the horrors of WWl informed Dadaism, the European art movement expressing nonsense, irrationality and anti-bourgeois protest. At around the same time, the Surrealists, in the aftermath of the war, began […]
By Bart Greenberg***When The Little Shop of Horrors opened in 1982 it was the ideal Off-Broadway musical; it featured a unit set with one simple inset—the dentist’s office, a small cast of mostly unknowns, a […]
By Bart Greenberg***Suggested by history, L’Amour ‘A Passy is all about the relationship between American ambassador Benjamin Franklin and Mme. Hardancourt Brillon, his neighbor in the small town of Passy on the outskirts of Paris. […]
By Marilyn Lester***Among a handful of America’s top-tier, premiere dramatists, Tennesse Williams’ star shines as one of the brightest. He’s best known for classic and important works such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named […]
By Marilyn Lester***Anyone who’s read the source material for the IT franchise knows the 1986 Stephen King book was unrelentingly terrifying. Less so by a smidge were the film adaptations—a 1990 television miniseries with Tim […]
By Bart Greenberg***The Village, A Disco Musical!, by Nora Burns (at Dixon Place), is a unique piece, a vivid combination of nostalgia, comedy, dance, period music—and Thornton Wilder. At times highly sophisticated, at other times […]
By Marilyn Lester***Teenage love is complicated at the best of times. When it happens during war the stakes are beyond imagining. Such is the setting of This Beautiful Future, playing at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane […]
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