1,209 stories by "Elyse Sommer"
Gita Sowerby's 1912 drama returns to the Mint Theater . . .
The Irish Rep's Ciarán O'Reilly once more demonstrates his ability to give exciting new life to plays that don't rank with O'Nell's masterpieces
How I Learned to Drive- Paula Vogel's Pulitzer winner passes the test of time with flying colors and a spectacular Uncle Peck . . .The Broken Heart -- According to Theatre for a New Aud…
Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Winner Passes the test of time with flying colors
An octogenarian's romp through his life as Captain Kirk, show horse rider, and more, more, more.
Athol Fugard directs his fledgling but career-making early play which is the inaugural production of the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Signature's exciting new Frank Gehry designed …
Gabe McKinley's new play is torn right from the 2003 headlines. It's told with great authenticity and style
The Living Theatre will offer a free encore performance of its production of Judith Malina's The History of the World, February 27 at 7 pm. Judith Malina, who's so…
- I can't think of a rhyming paraphrase of Noel Coward's famous "Don't quibble Sybil." But, I urge any reader on the fence about seeing this show to ignore the quibblers about this show's "u…
Fans of Downton Abbey take heart: Instead of succumbing to withdrawal pains when the last of the current series ends, you might want to consider another upstairs/downstairs costume drama, …
Smash, Episode 1-- To paraphrase the cliche about not judging a book by its cover, don't judge this show's future by its first episode Everybody seems to be talk…
Kate Fodor's new play does take a poke at a marketing and cure-all drug smitten economy, but the cautionary subtext doesn't spoil the fun of this contemporary screwball romantic comedy.
Poor Jimmy Porter.-- that's the angry young man of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger. Jimmy's been put down as a hopeless misogynist&nbs…
Look Back in Anger- Director Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism . . .Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville- The return of…
Director Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism
Morris Spector as the sexy but sinister uncle in Erika Sheffer's Russian immigrant variation on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge Russian Transport- …
Delia Ephron's funny but, sadly, all too true, Op-Ed piece Banks Taketh, but Don't Giveth in the January 27, New York Times, credits her…
New York's "other Met" offers a rare opportunity to see the Menotti's opera which actually opened on Broadway and nabbed a Pulitzer Prize as a DramaCritics Circle award for best musical of 1…
The set's the star in this otherwise thematically obscure play
While the indignities Cynthia Nixon's Doctor Bearing undergoes are indeed not easy to take, this is still an exceptionally rich play, a triple layered exploration not just of death but how w…
In New YorkThe Philanderer- With excellent production values and acting, even at a somewhat too long 2 1/2 hours, this witty production of minor Shaw play is qui…
With excellent production values and acting, even at a somewhat too long 2 1/2 hours, this witty production of minor Shaw play is quite a major pleasure.
Norm Lewish with Audra McDonald-- Kevin Spacey as King Richard III During the past week I've seen two actors portraying …
Kevin Spacey concludes The Bridge Project with a showboat performance as "The bottled spider" .
At just 85 minutes this 3-hander held my attention, even though neither the script or the actors had me quite buy into the mounting contrivances. . . .
