1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
by Jordan Cohen I don’t think I'm making any news when I announce that Ana Gasteyer is funny. Seriously funny. For more than two decades, she …
"Corruption is our only hope."   " Bertolt Brecht by Monica Charline Brown Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company has brought O…
by Alix Cohen I see a lot of concerts/club shows. This one blew me away. Having interviewed British collaborators Dominic Ferris and Martin Milnes f…
by Carole Di Tosti The New York Film Festival 2016 screened 20th Century Womn directed by Mike Mills, starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and Lucas Jade …
by JK Clarke One of the saddest aspects of human social history is the regularity with which singular women"whether uncharacteristically intelligent, power…
Thursday night, October 20 saw the opening of the revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 comedy The Front Page on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. The all…
On Monday, October 17, The Workshop Theater Company honored Sheldon Harnick with the Jewel Box Award at their 3rd annual unGala at The Lindeman in Hell’s Kitchen (…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude This Public Enemy"now playing at the Pearl Theatre"is not Scarface or John Dillinger; rather, it's David Harrower's taut, …
by Susan Hasho Monk with lyrics you ask? Johnny Mercer in the company of Monk you wonder? Peter Cherches is capable of many musical surprises…
by Marcina Zaccaria Three performers explore the quiet thoughts that exist when almost no one is watching in Inner Voices at The TBG Theatre. The ev…
by JK Clarke Covering a Tammy Faye Starlite performance is pretty much a breeze. There's never a question of entertainment quality or whether…
by Monica Charline Brown Surely you have noticed we are living in a world where shock value dominates our culture. Personal lives coalesce wi…
by JK Clarke Anyone who lived in New York over twenty years ago remembers keenly (and often fondly) the Times Square of old: a squalorous drag peopled with hustle…
by Steve Nardoni Many of us have a hard time looking back 30 years, and in particular to the 1980s where memories from back then were blurred…
by Marilyn Lester Let it be said first and foremost that in this production of The Producers, the Tony-winning Paper Mill Playhouse has a big…
by Martha Wade Steketee Repossession, privileged history, origin story, or folderol? An audience member at The Black Mask: An Original, Magical, and Specta…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude A most interesting theatrical experiment is taking place at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. The Trial of an American Pres…
Wednesday night, September 28, saw the opening night celebration of Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You, starring the iconic Judith Ligh…
Monday evening, September 26, the American Theatre Wing honored legend of film and stage, Cicely Tyson at the Plaza Hotel at its Annual Gala. Celebrating its 99th Annive…
by JK Clarke I've seen a lot of Hamlets. Just this year I count at least four. The productions have ranged from big budget and professional to small…
by MR Anderson In the wake of national tragedy and political unrest, a group of artists responds the only way they know how. Appropriately set in the gymnasium-es…
by Samuel L. Leiter It's been a long time since I saw an audience enjoy itself at a show as much as the one at the first press preview for I Like…
 by Brian Scott Lipton Most singers celebrating their golden anniversary in show business would be eligible for Medicare and have possibly lost …
by JK Clarke More often than not, a powerful work of art that speaks to, or enlivens, a generation, tends to lose a good deal of its luster as time …
Previews open tonight for That Golden Girls Show: A Puppet Parody at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square (103 East 15th Street at Union Square East). Set in…
