Four-time Tony Award winning playwright Terrence McNally is back on Broadway with his newest play Mothers and Sons, starring the reliable and respectable, Tyne Daly, at the Golden Theatre. “New” may be a bit of a misnomer, actually. Mothers and Sons is at least partially based upon McNally’s 1990 PBS film Andre’s Mother, for which […]
On a Saturday afternoon in 1996, I wandered into the living room just as my Dad was sitting down to watch the 10th Anniversary Les Misérables Concert on PBS. My 10 year-old self sat there next to Dad for the entire three-hour concert, pledge drives and all, absolutely enthralled. A few days later, I stole […]
Disney. It is divisive (much like this review, I am sure). For some people that single word conjures up images of dancing princesses, magical worlds, and the idealistic notion that love and friendship conquer all. For others it is a corporate conglomerate that gouges young parents out of their hard-earned dollars and routinely sets feminism […]
If there is something both inherently funny and inherently creepy about puppets, then Tyrone McHansley is the god of all puppets. Or is he the devil? One thing is certain, he is special and so is the play that he is appearing in at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Robert Askins’ Hand to God is an […]
Ask the average American under 40 what they know about President Lyndon B. Johnson and they will likely do one of two things: (1) stare at you blankly or (2) start mumbling about JFK’s assassination. Despite having a political science degree and twenty years of U.S.-based education, I know very little about President Johnson. Don’t […]
The producers of The Bridges of Madison County: A New Musical have constructed a show with an award-winning formula: combine one of the best selling books of the 20th century (turned Oscar-nominated film), the powerful voice of Kelli O’Hara and a handful of incredibly talented performers, the acclaimed direction of Bartlett Sher, and a Tony-Award winning […]
Last week’s spring-like departure from what has been the worst winter in the history of winters was a cruel ruse. Week two of the FRIGID festival was more aptly named as the bitter cold prompted audiences to stay bundled up during performances. However, the chill did not detract from the two enthralling productions that I […]
Founded in 2007, FRIGID New York is one of New York’s fringe theatre festivals, and, for three wintery weeks in February and March, thirty different 60-minute productions take up residency in the Kraine Theater and Under St. Marks in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The FRIGID festival is small-scale spectacle of independent theatre and […]