1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
by Samuel L. Leiter Judging by the piece about Curvy Widow in the current issue of Playbill, which notes that it "has been on the express track, taking jus…
by JK Clarke William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a fan favorite. It's one of those plays that survives a heavy editing process and always seems to …
by Cooper Lawrence Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize winning, and Oscar nominated playwright, actor and director has died at the age of 73. To many of us …
by Marilyn Lester Who couldn’t love a Cole Porter song? Certainly there must be very few, as Jazz in July Artistic Director and host Bill Charlap explained,…
by Martha Wade Steketee July 25, 2017 really is the 87th birthday of Annie Ross and marks the 11th year of regular appearances at the venue by this …
by Martha Wade Steketee Linda Lavin is a New York City girl who holds audiences rapt by comedic and dramatic performances on television, film, and stage. W…
by Martha Wade Steketee The scene at Birdland this steamy July evening skews young"tables of college-aged pals, a large group of teens from Britain. The bu…
 by Alix Cohen  Fanfare. Four business-suited men in an elevator erupt with staccato impressions of ongoing commerce as if finishing each other's sentence…
A gleeful revival of a musical that still manages to keep audiences laughing. by Joel Benjamin It's impossible to imagine a more talen…
by JK Clarke Wouldn't it be delightfully ironic if gangs of high school girls protested Pocket Universe's new all-female production of Julius Caesar, in which the…
by Samuel L. Leiter Ovo, which means "egg" in Portuguese, is about the cycle of life, or at least that's the loose theme around which this typically eye-po…
by JK Clarke To effectively convey a message about morals and ethics in a theatrical production, it's probably best to use a contemporary setting. Characte…
Three-time Tony Award-winner Glenn Close takes her final bow as "Norma Desmond" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard. …
by JK Clarke One doesn't expect much from free outdoor summer Shakespeare productions (aside from The Public's professional Shakespeare in the Park, of cou…
by Samuel L. Leiter Horton Foote, the admired Texas playwright who died at 92 in 2009, wrote so many worthy plays it's rare for a season to pass wit…
The Off Broadway Alliance Announces 2017 Award Winners! Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is Best New Musical Indecent is Best New Play The Off Broadway Al…
The unique and celebrated stage actor and stand-up comic Mario Cantone makes his Café Carlyle debut June 20-23. by Linda Amiel Burns …
by Carole Di Tosti What happens when you leave your seven-year-old child alone for three minutes in a locked car with the specific instructions not to open…
by Martha Wade Steketee We make our way to the second floor Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y on a sultry June evening without benefit of functioning elevato…
by Myra Chanin I am rarely at a loss for words, but the opening night of Marilyn Maye By Request at the Metropolitan Room rendered me speechless, so I'm letting a…
by Steve Nardoni Several rows of fixed folding chairs on either side of the stage face sterile and appropriate scenery: merely six wooden benches. As we en…
by Carole Di Tosti Terezin, a tragedy written and directed by Nicholas Tolkien is in a World Premiere at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City.…
One Hundred Years Remembered – 1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs by Marcina Zaccaria One hundred years is a long time. W…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude The Aran Islands are a windswept group of three rocky isles at the mouth of Galway Bay in western Ireland. They hav…
by Carole Di Tosti What is the price one pays for freedom in a country where women are oppressed and under the servitude of men? In a trenchant and …
