Next Fall, Dirty Blonde, Stunning and Everyday Rapture

Technically, New York’s new season begins on June 1, so mine began with a bang. I had no idea what to expect of Next Fall, a Naked Angels production at the small Peter Jay Sharp Theatre .

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Philanthropist and Theatre World Awards

August Wilson accomplished miracles when he completed his 10 play cycle covering the African American experience over the 20th century.

The Singing Forest, 9 to 5 and Table Manners

My week began with high hopes, for Olympia Dukakis is back on the boards and that’s always good news. Her play is The Singing Forest by Craig Lucas.

Sophistry, Andrea Burns, Mary Stuart and Offices

South Ark Stage’s Artistic Director Rhoda Herrick has seen fit to revive Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Sophistry at the Beckett Theatre in 42nd Street’s Theatre Row. 

The Norman Conquests and Desire Under the Elms

I have to give you some background before I get to The Norman Conquests, currently in revival at the Circle in the Square, courtesy of the Old Vic Theatre Company in London. To do that, I ask you to return with me to 1974 when I divorced myself from the field of talent agents, where [...]

Rooms, Blithe Spirit and You Never Know

The New World Stages, in one of its many hidden black box theatres underground on West 50th Street, is offering Paul Scott Goodman’s and Miriam Gordon’s ROOMS a rock romance,

Exit the King, Chasing Manet and 33 Variations

Eugene Ionesco died in 1994, and left us the progeny of his Theatre of the Absurd in which he was a pioneer. He wrote some 28 plays, and is best remembered for The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, The Chairs and Rhinoceros. His ode to dying, Exit the King, played 47 performances on Broadway

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Cruising with Chita, Early to Bed and Happiness

Two days after debarking from Celebrity Cruise’s SS Solstice in Ft. Lauderdale and flying back to NYC, I came down with the worst cold of my life and here I am, nine days later, still coughing and wheezing to beat the band.

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd and Cabaret Girl

The New York season traditionally divides itself into two halves; one that lasts through the Christmas holidays, and one that begins in February. The current season behaved itself,  despite the rest of the world breaking with all tradition and going quite mad on all fronts.

Story of My Life, Shipwrecked and Ruined

The Story of My Life - Broadway opened its doors to this little musical, giving it maximum exposure after its early days off Broadway in Canada and at the Goodspeed in Connecticut. That may have been a mistake. For I call it “little” in the sense that it has only two characters onstage, virtually no [...]

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