Jonathan Bank runs a pretty tight ship over there at the Mint Theater Company, one of our off-Broadway treasures. In the most unpretentious of black box theatres on the third floor of a 43rd Street office building, he has given us productions of long forgotten or little known works by playwrights who were, in their time, prominent.  Everyone from the Americans Dawn Powell, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Edith Wharton, Zona Gale, Susan Glaspell to the Brits Harley Granville-Barker and A.A. Milne.  During this season and last, he has taken a shine to a little known Irish playwright, Teresa Deevy whom the Irish Times labeled “one of Ireland’s best and most neglected dramatists.”  [Read more...]

I don’t usually cover the Cabaret world, but as Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder have both graced Broadway stages on their career trajectories, I thought you might like to know how they’re doing when they are up there just inches away from you, on their own without benefit of plot, full orchestra or an audience of 1,000. [Read more...]