Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 comedy of manners comes to life in a delightful production at the Deco District’s Classic theatre.
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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Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's interactive comedy of hilariously outdated dating advice makes for a fun evening at San Antonio's new Roxie Theatre.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 »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.'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Motherf**cker with the Hat’ by Stephen Adly Guirgis
This brilliantly acted small-stage revival of the Pulitzer Prize winner's Broadway play dives into the culture of machismo and finds answers elusive.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘BLDZR’ by Peter Galperin, a Musical About Robert Moses
This musical-in-progress about a legendary New York City innovator and force of nature – who isn't Alexander Hamilton – shows a lot of promise.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Dracula’
Devised by playwright Patricia Lynn and director Geordie Broadwater, this hybrid or mutant entertainment is told in old-style cinematic fashion, but updated storywise to the present day, while hewing largely to the plot of the original novel. I found its curiosities just right for Halloween season.
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