Actress Heidi Schreck's timely 'What the Constitution Means to Me' casts a long shadow and provides trenchant perspectives.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Salome’ by Oscar Wilde
This fine new production uses an admirable new translation from the French that stays close to the original, giving us Wilde indeed, flaws and all.
Read More »Theater Review (Chicago): ‘Second Skin’ from the Wildclaw Theater Brings Halloween Chills
This horror drama follows three intertwining monologues told by three women whose lives are all connected in ways that go beyond what is immediately apparent.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Broadway): ‘The Nap’ by Richard Bean, Directed by Daniel Sullivan
In this hysterical production you will find a rainbow of amazement and an intriguing conclusion – and probably learn the difference between pool and snooker. However, some of Bean's humor may be lost in mangled accents.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’ at BAM
Director Anne Bogart and SITI Company charge up Aaron Poochigian's balanced new translation in a graceful 90-minute production of Euripides' 'The Bacchae,' alive with ecstatic bacchanalia and gruesome violence.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur,’ by Tennessee Williams, Starring Kristine Nielsen, Annette O’Toole, Jean Lichty
Tennessee Williams' ironies and humor seek a fine level in this satisfying and heartfelt production.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ Starring Janet McTeer
As Sarah Bernhardt circa 1897, confronting Shakespeare's best-known character, Janet McTeer's dynamism astounds. Her Bernhardt is a whirlwind of delight and shimmering brilliance.
Read More »Theater Review (Westport, CT): Philip Hernandez Inspires as the ‘Man of La Mancha’ at Westport Country Playhouse
Director Mark Lamos is to be congratulated on imbuing this show with new life and purpose in these trying times. The final moments of this 'Man of La Mancha' present a stark tableau of some of the challenges facing us, including the red-hooded specter of intolerance, images of the falsely imprisoned, and the continued abuse and subjugation of women.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘I Was Most Alive with You’ by Craig Lucas
Being Deaf today brings with it controversies over vocalizing, lip reading, and ASL. All of that helps define just one character in Craig Lucas's kaleidoscope of a drama, now in its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The True’ with Edie Falco and Michael McKean
'The True' succeeds on many levels: the fascinating characters, the acting, the directing. Though the individuals are factual, White teases out the emotional tenor between and among these Albany political operators.
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