1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Sunday evening, June 3, all the stars were out to walk the red carpet for the 2018 Drama Desk Awards, just off Times Square, along Anita’s Way. Prior to streaming into Th…
by JK Clarke Comedy is hard. Especially theatrical comedy. Even if the humor exists in the script, it doesn't necessarily make it to the stage. Ordinarily,…
by JK Clarke To bring a production of Long Day's Journey Into Night to New York City only two years after the powerful, arresting and Tony award-winning Roundabou…
Monday evening, May 21, The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President and CEO) and The Village Voice (Peter Barbey, President and CEO) held the 63rd Annual Obie Awards at …
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Monday evening, May 14, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City’s Times Square, The Actors Fund celebrated four gigantic stars of stage and screen and awarded the…
by JK Clarke The women of Tennessee Williams plays are easily identifiable. The older ones, usually mothers, are bitter and neurotic. The younger, neurotic…
Wednesday, May 9 the Nominees Reception for the 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards took place at Friedman’s in the Hotel Edison. Celebrating the nominees for the 2017-2018 the…
The 2018 theater awards season kicked off with a pop"a KPOP"last night at the 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring the best in off-Broadway, at NYU’s Skirba…
by JK Clarke As any health or behavior expert can tell you, the root cause of substance abuse is rarely, if ever, the substance itself. Rather, it's the un…
by JK Clarke There are very few theater programs I am more fond of than The Public Theater's Mobile Unit. I look forward to their twice annual, sparse but powerfu…
Monday Night, April 30, the nominees for the first Annual Chita Rivera Awards gathered at Bond 45 in Times Square to celebrate their accomplishment. The Chita Rivera Awa…
Wednesday evening, April 25, saw the opening night festivities of the Broadway revival of Saint Joan, the George Bernard Shaw telling of the life of Joan of Arc at the S…
by JK Clarke James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara (one of the founders of Dadaism) are hanging out in Zurich . . . sounds like the setup to one of those …
Harry Potter goes Broadway! Picking up where the seventh book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series left off, with Harry and his magical friends as adults, the two-play H…
Sunday afternoon, April 22, the long awaited American debut of the Harry Potter play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, opened at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. Thea…
by JK Clarke One of the drawbacks of theater or literature that deals with contemporaneously specific issues is that they run the risk of losing their rele…
by JK Clarke While there's nothing wrong with the trend of altering classical theater with a modern or minimalist slant, the downside is the infrequency with whic…
by JK Clarke If Hello, Dolly! were edited down to a mere 10 or 15 minute version of the glorious set piece featuring the title song, it would stand up on i…
by JK Clarke The madness of Leontes, King of Sicilia is puzzling. Erupting from seemingly nowhere it ruins his life in short order; and it just as q…
Thursday, March 15 Jimmy Buffett’s new musical, Escape to Margaritaville celebrated its opening on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. The story of people and life on an…
by JK Clarke You'd be hard pressed to find someone not intimately familiar with the Jimmy Buffett 1977 soft-rock hit, "Margaritaville," a catchy reverie ab…
by JK Clarke What do you do after winning four World Series titles, playing five All-Star games, winning four Gold Gloves and being voted league MVP (among…
by JK Clarke Theater, as we know, exists in all kinds of different forms.There are few varieties that have yet to be seen, from the conventional to the inventive:…
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