1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
by JK Clarke AÂ prevailing sentiment one feels while watching the Anne Washburn's Antlia Pneumatica"now playing at Playwrights Horizons and directed by K…
by Joe Regan Jr. On April 5, Mary Deady, an Irish-American lass, with a classically trained lyric soprano appeared in a cabaret show at the Laurie Beechman…
A Farce of Gender-Bending Cultural Expectations by Carole Di Tosti Happily After Ever by Laura Zlatos, directed by Sherri Eden Barber, turns stereotypic no…
by Monica Charline Brown and JK Clarke One of the intriguing aspects of even the most basic study of Shakespeare is the debate surrounding the authorship o…
by Joe Regan Jr. On April 1 Vivian Reed exploded on to the stage of the Metropolitan Room with a jazz medley of "Just One Of Those Things," Almost Like Being In L…
by Jordan Cohen Marti Gould Cummings, well known in the New York drag scene as a singing comedy queen, presented a one night only rock concert, dire…
Liz Callaway sings Maltby & Shire at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse by Susan Hasho There is no better ambassador for Maltby and Shire than Liz …
by Brian Scott Lipton Is it 1776 or 2016? It can be occasionally be hard to tell what year we're watching"or living in"during Tony Award winner Garry Hynes…
by JK Clarke Inherent in taking a risk with a theatrical production, as with any risk, is that the chance for failure is significantly increased. When the gambit …
Oscar-winning actress and theater star Patty Duke died on Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho at the age of 69. Duke, who rose to prominence on Broadway as Helen Keller in Th…
by Marilyn Lester The seventh edition (in three years) of Robin's Nest"a cabaret hosted by Robin Westle to benefit the work of helpusadopt.org "feat…
by MR Anderson The recent abundance of fledgling theater companies are the great double-edged sword of our new crowdfunding era of the arts. Numerou…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude The Pearl Theatre is the jewel in Theatre Row's crown. Whether presenting classics, like Shakespeare and Shaw; insightful translations such as …
Thursday night, March 24 at the Cort Theater saw the gala opening of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical, Bright Star. The opening night red carpet, mobbed by ph…
by Eric J. Grimm August Strindberg Repertory continues its American update of Strindberg's To Damascus trilogy with the second installment, Damascus II, no…
A frustratingly rough-edged, but fascinating tale of a 19th century musical legend. by Joel Benjamin The Czechoslovak-American Marionette The…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude A new work by Swedish wunderkind Jonas Hassen Khemiri and produced by Origin Theatre Company, The Hundred We Are, is openi…
Boldface names from the theater world turned up Sunday night at the Barrow Street Theatre for opening night and US debut of The Effect, by Lucy Prebble. Having recently taken L…
by JK Clarke Historically, visions of the future have been optimistic about the quality of the people therein. The Jetsons always showed happy, zippy people in fl…
by JK Clarke For a total dummy, Ray is no dummy. The Olympics-level competitive swimmer and protagonist of Red Speedo, Lucas Hnath's new play now running (…
by Rudy Gerson For most people, declaring bankruptcy would be an unpleasant experience, but the matriarch of Labyrinth Theater’s current production of Th…
By Sandi Durell The Edison Ballroom was filled to capacity on March 14th as two theater greats were honored for their untiring and unique contributi…
by Brian Scott Lipton A nearly two-decade absence from the New York stage has done nothing to lessen the considerable chops of Timothy Olyphant. Indeed, hi…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude Gracing the theater scene is an elegant and utterly delightful new production of George Bernard Shaw's Widowers' Houses. Guiding …
by Monica Charline Brown Acclaimed playwright Eduardo Ivan Lopez has molded a true paragon of the contemporary American drama with his play, Natural Life, running…
