A Tale of Two Kiddies: “Jasper” Review
Can an emotional affair be just as damaging as a physical one? Fate has not been kind to the Queens couple we meet in Grant MacDermott’s Jasper, a Yonder Window…
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High Flying, Adorned
Can The Kite Runner soar as it glides from page to stage? “I became what I am today at the age of 12,” says Amir, the protagonist of The Kite…
Getting Piggy With It: “The Butcher Boy” is guilty of not digging deeper
Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you’re poor, have an abusive, alcoholic father and a mother who is mentally at sea. Patrick McCabe knew this, and his trenchant 1992 novel…
Under the Dragon’s Tail: A Review
Characters endure a variety of transitional moments in playwright Isaac Byrne’s Under the Dragon’s Tail, a quartet of short plays at Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre. Also directed by Byrne and…
Four on the Floor: “Into the Woods” gives audiences what they want
Revisited but not revitalized, Into the Woods, the fabled James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, has been revived for a second time on Broadway, having immediately transferred over from a two-week New…
The company of "Epiphany." Photo courtesy Jeremy Daniel.
Show, Gabriel, Show: An elliptical Epiphany never connects the dots
The idea of a bunch of semi-strangers all convening in the cold of January 6 will likely forever have ominous connotations, but playwright Brian Watkins has a different sense of…
Photo courtesy of Emilio Madrid
Titanique
Question: How do you belt to the rafters when your theater is only eight feet high? Answer: With all the abandon in the world – especially if you’re international singing…
Margot Weintraub, Charlotte Elizabeth Curtis, Zoe Glick, and Charlotte MacLeod. (Photo by Ahron R. Foster.)
The Bedwetter offers a peek at the young Sarah Silverman
Throughout Sarah Silverman’s career, going on nearly three decades, the famously ribald comedian has held very little back. Such was the case with her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter, a collage…
Scenes of the Crime
David Morse and Mary-Louise Parker recreate the dark magic of How I Learned to Drive A unique kind of excavation is currently happening at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre –…
The Way We Get By
The wheels on the Antrobus go round and round in The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder’s World War II-era The Skin of Our Teeth is an inventive, and somewhat…