In this long but engrossing play set in a mental health clinic, Rabe outlines each character's distinctive battleground, where counselors defend and encourage them against their tendencies to self-harm.
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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story’
This wondrous musical show from Canada defies genre, yet sweeps you up in the tale of two Jewish refugees who more than a century ago made a new home in a new world.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Phoebe Legere’s ‘Speed Queen: The Joe Carstairs Story’
Uneven pacing and lengthy diversions derail this loving musical tribute from the multitalented Legere to the cross-dressing lesbian oil heiress and speedboat champion.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show 2018 Features Belgian Floral Artist Daniël Ost
The NYBG presents another spectacular celebration of one of the most alluring, sensual, and mysterious of flower exotics, the orchid.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Good for Otto’ by David Rabe
The play buffets us from patient to patient, crisis to crisis, and dream sequence to real-life therapy. Artifice this skillful glows with a heightened authenticity. The glittering cast including Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Rhea Perlman, Mark Linn-Baker, and F. Murray Abraham.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Terminus’ by Gabriel Jason Dean
Frightened girl, earth mother, rusty old wreck, fallen angel, Dean's central character has lived a life larger than life, yet feels as real as cemetery dirt. Amidst a brilliant production, Deirdre O'Connell helps make 'Terminus' one of the best shows I've seen in a long time.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Gypsy’ at the Secret Theatre
The scrappy Secret Theatre, whose snazzy production of 'Cabaret' was an Off-Off-Broadway highlight last year, has done well by another classic big musical with a sinewy 'Gypsy.'
Read More »Music Review: Laurie Anderson & The Kronos Quartet – ‘Landfall’
'Landfall' by Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet is extraordinary and one of the most brilliant albums I've heard in a long time.
Read More »TV Review: ‘The Alienist,’ A TNT Series That Works For Me!
Based on Caleb Carr’s Best Selling multi-genre work The Alienist, TNT’s 10 episode titular series, premiered in late January. The weekly series presents an intriguing look into the timelessness of New York City’s economic classes, social conflicts, familial and personal traumas. The sensational production design imprints 1896 Manhattan in indelible …
Read More »Theater Interview (San Antonio): Texas Light Opera Takes its Show on the Road
TLO Executive Director and Board Member Joseph Urick talk about bringing the Texas theater community together.
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