1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Tennessee Williams's greatest plays were produced over the better part of two decades, between 1944 and 1961, when The Night of the Iguana premiere…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Based on Alexandra Shiva's titular documentary film, the trailblazing musical How to Dance in Ohio is uplifting and endearing with vital thematic po…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . There are musicals that entertain, and then there are musicals that transport us, elevating us to a higher ground. Buena Vista Social Club, the uniqu…
Interview by Chris Carver . . . . Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing Ruth Stage's newly reimagined production of James McClure's play Lone Star, currently running Off-Broadway at The…
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . . Mazel Tov to the artistic staff at Paper Mill Playhouse for their prescient presentation of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof. The show is the exac…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Listening to Mike Lemme's talkback after the performance of his new show, Before the Drugs Kick In gave me an appreciation of what he was striving…
Cabaret Review by Melissa Griegel . . . . Cast members from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street took to the 54 Below stage on Sunday, December 3 to sing their favorite songs for a…
Florida Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Let's not beat around the bush. Moon over Buffalo (now playing at Lynn University in Florida) by Ken Ludwig is a first-class hilarious classic A…
Cabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I am overwhelmed with the endless talent displayed by the always more or less disheveled Austin Pendleton. The man's a dynamo. I try to see every show h…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Greed, for lack of a better word, is the American way. And it always has been, even before there was an America, as Mary Kathryn Nagle posits in the f…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A garden. What an ideal metaphor for an artistic life . . . It's a place where creativity blossoms, where memories grow, where others are buried.…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . For the past several years visitors to a number of New York theater lobbies will likely have noticed a respectful sign posted on a wall acknowledgi…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee published The Life and Times of Michael K in 1983. It won the Booker Prize and is considered an important work by the So…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . , . Ruth Stage's production of James McLure's Lone Star"currently playing at Theatre Row through December 23"is a great example of how a seasoned work can…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . "This girl is on fire" . . . and so is her show. Hell's Kitchen, Alicia Keys's vibrant new bio-musical now playing at the Public Theater, is red-hot …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Paging a play doctor. The Jerusalem Syndrome needs some tender loving care"STAT! A company of some very talented actors are doing their best to breathe …
Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I spent Saturday afternoon sampling the fruits of the spectacular interaction between a quartet of indefatigable theatrical somebodies. Let's start with three t…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Music Halls have traditionally presented a variety of acts with a sing-along quality"popular entertainment for the people. This year's Christmas Spect…
Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Hard to believe it was for only one night because the show that Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara put together with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall th…
Music Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Given the extreme amount of audience participation Joshua Henry demanded of his audience at the 92NY on Saturday night at his "Get Up Stand Up" c…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . The versatile Qui Nguyen, Co-Founder of the acclaimed theater company Vampire Cowboys, notable for its productions of She Kills Monsters, Revenge So…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It's a pleasure to report that, with Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent), the venerable National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene yet again demons…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Mischief Production has staked its claim as the king of collegial parodies. It asks audiences to suspend an expectation of professionalism with an app…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's two-act, existential tragicomedy, was first performed, in French, as En attendant Godot, in 1953, and in Englis…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . The audience eats it up like spam. A lot. Spamalot has returned to Broadway offering more laughs than ever at the St. James Theatre. The 2005 musical ba…
