Sometimes soldiers can only be great killing machines, nothing more, nothing less.
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Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘The School for Scandal’ at the Classic Theatre
Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 comedy of manners comes to life in a delightful production at the Deco District’s Classic theatre.
Read More »Cabaret Review (NYC): Gay Marshall – ‘Gay’s Paree!’ at Pangea
All through the generous, smart, funny show, carefully crafted yet emotionally authentic, with Marshall sang songs by Jacques Brel and made famous by Edith Piaf, living the songs, and letting us live them – and live her love affair with Paris – too.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage’
Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's interactive comedy of hilariously outdated dating advice makes for a fun evening at San Antonio's new Roxie Theatre.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Two of Us’ by Ross Howard Explores Mark David Chapman’s Murder of John Lennon
The play imagines in detail Chapman's relationship with his wife and their religious milieu; his journey to New York, fraught with fury, confusion, and self-doubt; and finally the infamous murder itself.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘One Flea Spare’ by Naomi Wallace
Outside, the bubonic plague slaughters. Inside two disinfected rooms, emotional battles rage. Which of the four characters will remain alive?
Read More »Review: ‘The Ivory Game’ From Executive Producer Leo DiCaprio
The cost of ivory is too heavy to bear; it is the extinction of a species as told in Leonardo Di Caprio's "The Ivory Game" presented at the Hamptons and Toronto Film Festivals.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ by Bertolt Brecht
Corruption is easy. Justice is hard. Brecht warns us: In a zero sum game, if the little people allow criminals to gain supremacy and legitimize themselves, they will have allowed the destruction of justice, morality, and peace.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’
This powerful little production of Shakespeare's depiction of one of the foulest sides of human nature makes the racial aspect of the tragedy ring resoundingly true, especially in today's climate of fear and prejudice.
Read More »Interview: Jules Grison, Star of ‘Formidable!’ Celebrating Charles Aznavour
'We have a story for the first part because we want to show Montmartre in Paris. We want to show the jazz clubs like we find today in New York. In France in the 1950s there were jazz clubs in Paris. It’s not the same now.'
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