'I Can Get it For You Wholesale' reminds us of the toxicity of materialism and the hypocrisy of religious prosperity messages that exclude humanity and neighborly love and decency.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Spamalot’ Nothing Succeeds Like Excess
'Spamalot is a laugh riot that speeds by at a break-neck pace. The ensemble are clowns of high art, who know how to do comedy. Gobsmacking!
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Harmony,’ Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Musical
'Harmony' is a musical about an internationally famous, all-male German ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 until the Third Reich banned them as degenerates.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Arcadia,’ Tom Stoppard’s Masterpiece, Presented by Bedlam in Revival
In Bedlam's revival of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' the past and the present gradually merge as the truth comes clear about love and the second law of thermodynamics.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Flawless’ by Robin Goldfin – A Tale of Dementia, Memory, and Family Love
Infused with magical realism, 'Flawless' isn't the intense, gritty family drama that the subject of dementia might suggest.
Read More »Review: ‘The Frogs’ – A Concert Staging of the Stephen Sondheim Musical, Based on Aristophanes
A combination concert performance and staged reading of 'The Frogs' by Stephen Sondheim, based on the Aristophanes play and adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane, featured high comedy and wonderful rarely-heard music.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Sabbath’s Theater,’ with John Turturro and Elizabeth Marvel
A terrific theatrical adaptation of the award-winning Philip Roth novel.
Read More »Theater Reviews: ‘Mina’ and ‘Here, Between, and Beyond’ at FRIGID New York’s Days of the Dead Festival
Bram Stoker's Mina becomes a mesmerizing shape-shifter in a new take on an old vampire story.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Helen.’ by Caitlin George – Getting Inside Helen of Troy
In this compelling new comedy Helen of Troy is not a victim, a pawn, or a plot device, but an icon of feminist fortitude.
Read More »Theater Interview: Charles Shaughnessy from ‘The Da Vinci Code’ at Ogunquit Playhouse
"This is my third time in Ogunquit trying to find the Holy Grail."
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