1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . . Diane Wiest returns to the stage in Vineyard Theatre's production of John J. Caswell's play Scene Partners. Set in 1985, the play features Wiest as a wom…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Rider McDowell's stingless Ode to the Wasp Woman, Off-Broadway at the Actors Temple Theatre, dramatizes the sad, tawdry fates of four Hollywood …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . "I have been acting all of my life! It's about time I get paid for it!" So says Meryl Kowalski, the protagonist of John J. Caswell's world-premiere …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Being read to at night is basic to a child's needs once tucked in and ready for bed. If one is lucky, their parents are adept at storytelling. The best …
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . Considering the dearth of intellectually challenging plays on New York City's vaunted stages in recent years, the staging of one of the most intelligent, …
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . In honor of Veteran's Day, the stage was set at Carnegie Hall for November 1918: The Great War and The Great Gatsby. Katie Couric announced this ex…
By Ron Fassler . . . When I first saw the musical Ragtime in Los Angeles, prior to Broadway twenty-six years ago, I had chills up and down my spine at the opening number and tears stream…
By Ron Fassler . . . One of the true oddities in the long and versatile career of Stephen Sondheim, The Frogs is like no other show in the canon. In 1974, he created a few songs at the r…
Irving Berlin's Musical Soundtrack to Everything Wonderful in Many/Most/All 20th Century American Lives " By Myra Chanin . . . At least three cheers, once again, for Marilyn Wick, the exe…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Playwright David Adjmi (The Evildoers, Stunning and Other Plays), has struck platinum with his astounding Stereophonic, a hybrid comedy/drama/musical, currently …
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Material possessions can interfere with healthy family relationships. This is especially so for Sam (Danny DeVito), a "quasi-hoarder" with a purpose, and daughte…
By Carol Rocamora . . . A crosscurrent of compelling themes run fast and deep in the turbulent, terrific revival of I Can Get It For You Wholesale. Directed with ingenuity and flair by T…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . There are two questions on the lips of almost every patron entering New York City Center this week for its "revisal" of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Philip Roth, the prolific novelist who died in 2018 at 85, saw eight of his books adapted for movies and TV, but very few for the stage. However, John Turturro …
By Myra Chanin . . . I moved to Florida during the plague and, for a short while, felt like a Manhattan snob that left paradise for a cultural desert . . . until I attended my first Boca…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his play, Translations, Brian Friel uses language to underscore a thematic message about power, control and domination. As the first play in the three-play se…
By Ron Fassler . . . Christin Milioti has achieved a solid reputation in her more than twenty-year career as an actress. She's given terrific performances in everything from romantic com…
By Stuart Miller . . . Eric Anthamatten seems to have been an amazing guy: a sixth-degree black belt who taught martial arts, a musician, a Ph.D. in philosophy, a professor, a writer abo…
By Walter Murphy . . . A play about war. Really? Bombarded, of late, with news blasts about Russia/Ukraine and most recently Israel/Hamas, I wondered what insights about war George Berna…
By Yani Perez . . . Telling Tales Out of School, written by Wesley Brown, with Direction by Woodie King Jr., is an elegantly written play about an afternoon meeting between Nella Larsen, Jes…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Patrick Olson may not be a preacher and the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre may not be a church, but it's hard to deny that Emergence, the high-powered, occasionall…
By Ron Fassler . . . In March of 2011, The Book of Mormon arrived on Broadway and has been entertaining audiences and taking up real estate on West 49th Street ever since. It made stars out …
By Stuart Miller . . . At first glance, Patrick Olson may remind you of Dean Pelton from "Community": the bald pate, the black glasses and the overly enthusiastic hand gestures and body …
By Adam Cohen . . . For 85 years, Paper Mill Playhouse has presented musicals and plays with loving flair. The house is saturated in history"near financial ruin, fire, and a devotion to thea…
By Myra Chanin . . . The warm, convivial audience who welcomed the introductory remarks by William Hayes, the Producing Artistic Director of the Palm Beach Dramaworks, on the opening nig…
