1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Thursday afternoon, May 12, the playwright development laboratory, New Dramatists, honored Broadway sensation Audra McDonald at its 67th Annual Spring Luncheon at the Marriott …
by Brian Scott Lipton Like a number of City Center Encores! productions, Evan Cabnet's staging of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laure…
Monday, May 9 esteemed director and playwright George C. Wolfe was honored with the 16th Annual Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Festivities took place a…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude A beautifully mounted, skillfully directed and brilliantly acted production of Simon Stephens' play Harper Regan (produced by T. …
by JK Clarke Perhaps Tennessee Williams had Jean Paul Sartre in mind when he wrote Orpheus Descending (now playing through May 14 at St. John's Luth…
by Joe Regan Jr. After her sold out cabaret appearance at Birdland last October, the Welsh-born Iris Williams returned in triumph May 2 in a show entitled …
Surprise! Tony Award winners, Kelli O'Hara and Victoria Clark sing opera. by Joel Benjamin The highly respected Collegiate Chorale has morphe…
by JK Clarke Eugene O'Neill didn't really want the play many consider his magnum opus, Long Day's Journey Into Night, to see the light of day . . . not for…
The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Achievement Off-Broadway took place Sunday night, May 1 at NYU’s Skirball Center. Awards were presented to recipients in 18 cate…
by JK Clarke The act of taking one of William Shakespeare's most notoriously sexist plays and turning it on its head by casting a woman in every rol…
This is the fourth and final  in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and presen…
Monday night, April 25, The Actors Fund held it’s annual Gala. This year’s honorees were Michael Douglas, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Robert Greenblatt, Cynthia Greg…
Sunday evening, April 24, Waitress the Musical opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Already nominated for four 2016 Outer Critics Awards, Waitress i…
This is the third in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and presented by the Roya…
Thursday, April 21 saw the opening night festivities for American Psycho, The Musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre where Theater Pizzazz’ JK Clarke was on the scene f…
by JK Clarke This is the second in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and present…
Note: This is the first in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and presented by the…
Tuesday, April 16, 2016. The 2015-16 nominees for the 66th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced this morning by Broadway’s Brian d’Arcy James (S…
by JK Clarke An incredible thing is happening this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). In conjunction with Ohio State University, BAM is presenting the Royal S…
by JK Clarke Shakespeare's timelessness is proved time and again through its myriad interpretations. A great play we know all too well can be presented in a manne…
by Monica Charline Brown It is a rare night in the theatre when every single performance knocks an audience off its feet. The eleventh concert in th…
by Samuel L. Leiter In Ike Holter's entertainingly relevant Exit Strategy, set in Chicago's rundown Tmbldn (sic) High School, a volatile African-American s…
The New 42nd Street held it’s 25th Anniversary Gala honoring Douglas Durst, Bruce C. Ratner, Daniel R. Tishman, Mortimer B. Zuckerman presenting them with the Marian Heiskell…
Monday, April 11, 2016 at the Pierre Hotel saw Theatre Forward‘s 2016 Chairman’s Awards Gala, honoring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and John R. Dutt. The event, host…
by JK Clarke If you want a surreal, confusing theatrical journey, then usually anything by Luigi Pirandello ((1867-1936) should satisfy your needs. Pirandello's w…
