Alberto Bonilla's powerful staging set in postwar Italy does just about everything right.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘About Clarence & Me’
This sensitively told story of an old black man taking piano lessons from a young white composer reminds us of the universality of the human experience and the power of friendship and love.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Crashlight’ – A New Musical by Celeste Makoff
Despite its flaws, this dystopian fairy tale has the imaginative power to draw us into its world, then send us out with songs in our hearts.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘A Day by the Sea’ by N.C. Hunter, Directed by Austin Pendleton
Directed with precision and grace by Austin Pendleton on Charles Morgan's lovely sets, the superb cast brings to warm life this world of dimmed elegance with its lingering divide between the privileged and servant classes.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘A Day by the Sea’ Directed by Austin Pendleton
Pendleton and his cast tease out what is most salient and profound in this nearly-forgotten work, and through their efforts, Hunter's themes retain currency and timelessness.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Motherlode Theatre Company’s ‘The Good Earth’
Welsh villagers are pressured to leave their ancestral homes when the government suspects their mountain may collapse.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Touch’ by Toni Press-Coffman
A fascinating tale of a great love crushed by a violent act, 'Touch' is part love story, part murder mystery, and a tender dissection of the human spirit subjected to horrors known and unknown.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s ‘Evita’ at the Woodlawn Theatre
The winner of multiple Tony Awards, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1976 musical arrives at San Antonio's Woodlawn Theatre in a note-perfect production.
Read More »Theater Review (DC): Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, now on a North American tour, is a slightly confused production that 'Phantom' fans will still find satisfying.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Fringe): ‘A History of Servitude’
The Department of Fools aims to relate the history of the world from the point of view of the servants in this stab at updated commedia dell'arte.
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