1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By JK Clarke I find it hard to understand why William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well is so seldom performed. When done as elegantly as Hedg…
By JK Clarke It can be argued that Macbeth is Shakespeare's best and most beloved play. It's an assertion that would certainly spark vigorous…
By Samuel L. Leiter Tis the season to be silly, and the York Theatre Company, no stranger to quirky, musical silliness (see Marry Harry and A…
by JK Clarke One always imagines the Groundlings"the "common people" in the cheap seats, or standing in front of the stage during Shakespeare's first productions …
by Brian Scott Lipton It's hardly a secret that in the Antebellum south, white owners often took sexual advantage of their African-American slaves. But in …
by JK Clarke It's been a good autumn for playwright Theresa Rebeck. Her thoughtful examination of famed turn-of-the-century actor Sarah Bernhardt's groundb…
by Adam Cohen One man's ambition is comfortable, while to another it is anathema. This is the simplest way to convey the central theme of Irving Berlin's Holiday …
by JK Clarke Nothing Comes of Nothing. In every art form there comes a moment, or several moments, when the masters of that art tear it apart and br…
By Steve Nardoni My circle is tired of hearing me whine, "I don't remember the '80s!" So it was that I took this assignment with trepidation, fearin…
By Samuel L. Leiter Despite its title, Scott Aiello's Bernie and Mikey's Trip to the Moon is anything but a slacker/stoner play in the vein of the Bill and…
by Sheila Watko Even before Joe Iconis (Larson Award winner; Drama Desk nominee; creator of Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, The Black Suits) and Geo…
by Carol Rocamora "I know how it is in America." We're hearing that line a lot on our stages this season. It's coming from a multiplicity of voices"black, …
by JK Clarke No matter the plaudits already heaped on the Public Theater's Mobile Unit, it is time that the group be acknowledged by one or all of the majo…
by JK Clarke Every so often there is a comic actor who takes command of a stage in a way that either delights or chagrins audience members, and often other actors…
by JK Clarke A new production of John Patrick Shanley's mainstay of acting classes everywhere, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, opened last week at Theatre Und…
by JK Clarke The more risky elements a director inserts into a stage play, the greater the chance that something will go wrong. But acclaimed director of s…
by Hazen Cuyler Emma and Max"now playing at the Flea Theater"is a trap set to deceive us all. Written and directed by Todd Solondz, an experienced independ…
by JK Clarke Fans of Alfred Hitchcock will tell you that the most terrifying of his thrillers are also the funniest. There's something about mixing mystery…
By Brian Scott Lipton As Joni Mitchell once famously sang, "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Within mere seconds of her first appearance in Alexi K…
by JK Clarke Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a masterful novelist, known primarily for the satirical, cynical vein that ran through his crisp, entertaining novels. …
by Michael Bracken Lovely and lyrical, Donja R. Love's Fireflies, at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, is disarmingly powerful. Don't exp…
by JK Clarke If you strip away the jaw dropping, "holy cow" moments from the new production of Oklahoma! at St. Ann's Warehouse (now through November 11), what yo…
by JK Clarke One doesn't expect an off-off-Broadway, independent theater solo show to be a high tech affair, so the video, lighting and sound of Hope"playing thro…
by Alix Cohen Behind the Music with Louis Rosen: Stephen Sondheim, American Modernist Beginnings: West Side Story, Gypsy and Forum (or Broadway Experiments…
by JK Clarke The experience of growing of black in an all, or mostly-white community in the United States is one that very few white Americans understand. Even am…
