1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Photos – The Actors Fund Honors . . . The stars gathered Monday night at the Marriott Marquis Monday, May 8 to celebrate this years Annual Gala Benefitting the Act…
by JK Clarke There's been a slaughter here. No, it's not the bloody ending of Shakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet, to which I'm referring. Rather, it's the e…
by JK Clarke European history is dotted with notable miscarriages of "justice" as, by extension, is its literature. France, in particular, gave us b…
by JK Clarke There's a pervasive sense of dread hanging over Chrissy's world in David Rabe's In the Boom Boom Room, the story of a young woman who settles …
by JK Clarke Let me come right out and say it: The Public Theater's Mobile Unit production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is not only one of the best versions of that be…
by JK Clarke Time-worn maxims have a funny way of being both cliché and, at times, totally a propos. Take for instance the old saw, "the more things chang…
Tuesday night, April 18 saw the Broadway opening night festivities of Paula Vogel’s Indecent at the Cort Theatre. The story of the making of, and subsequent censorship and obsce…
by JK Clarke In an allusion, perhaps, to the story of Exodus and the 40 years that Moses led his people through the desert to freedom, Pulitzer Priz…
by JK Clarke Most of us have work anxiety dreams: showing up to a sales meeting completely unprepared, having thousands of customers in a restaurant…
by Steve Nardoni Toward the end A Life Behind Bars, a compelling, comedic, but chilling one-man autobiographical show (directed by Tanya Moberly), playing every o…
by JK Clarke If you're one of those policy wonks who just can't get enough of political discussions that to others can be frustrating and depressing, then …
Daniel’s Husband opened last night at the Cherry Lane Theatre followed by an after party at Sushi Samba where cast members and guests celebrated. Â Theater Pizzazz̵…
by JK Clarke Anyone who's ever walked the halls of a nursing home has seen numerous rooms in which sat a forlorn looking elderly person, lost in a haze of …
by Steve Nardoni Seven years ago Phil Geoffrey Bond had a brilliant idea: start a monthly series featuring Stephen Sondheim's music with sing…
by JK Clarke There might be better ways to time-travel back to the 1950s than watching a double header of William Inge plays, Picnic and Come Back, Little …
by JK Clarke It's difficult to fathom, in the current sociopolitical atmosphere, why the renowned and supremely talented David Byrne, at the …
by Brian Scott Lipton Not since Henry Higgins turned cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper Englishwoman has so much attention be …
by Samuel L. Leiter Stephan Wolfert's Cry Havoc! is a deeply impressive one-person play about the horrors of war. It isn't, however, so much an anti…
by JK Clarke Let's say it's late on a Sunday night, you don't want the weekend to end and are hankering for a few laughs. A new show in cabaret venue Feins…
by JK Clarke One of the more exciting developments in the cabaret scene in recent years has been the expansion and evolution of the type of performe…
Sunday evening, March 12, New York City welcomed the citizens of Gander, Canada, to the Broadway premiere of Come From Away, the touching tale of a small community that …
Monday night, March 13 the Vineyard Theatre held its 2017 Gala at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square, this year honoring the 10th anniversary of [t…
by Samuel L. Leiter Long, quiet, moody stretches are punctured by pockets of laughter in the Playwrights Realm's production of The Moors, emerging playwrig…
by JK Clarke Ask any New Yorker what they think about an uplifting 9/11-themed musical and you'll almost certainly get an angry glare. Many lost someone th…
by JK Clarke I have to admit that I was at first deeply ambivalent about Sam Gold's new staging of the classic Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie…
