1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
The Good Girl: A Futuristic Time Warp Into The Present by Carole Di Tosti The Good Girl, written by Emilie Collyer, directed by Adam Fitzgerald and present…
Streamlined Buried Child Still Taps Shepard's Inner Storm by Michael Stever Digging into the dark recesses of our own past is o…
by JK Clarke You know you're in for a long seventy-five minutes when the opening scene of Fen, Caryl Churchill's 1983 play (presented by the Red Garnet Theater Co…
by Eric J. Grimm So much theater in New York tries to lazily imitate the film experience while refusing to push boundaries that don't need to exist when an audien…
by Eric J. Grimm There has never been a better time to see Mike Birbiglia live than now. With his unkempt appearance and propensity to tell stories about h…
by Monica Charline Brown The phrase "dynamic duo" does not even begin to do justice to the performance Tor and Lisa (Tor Hyams and Lisa Rothauser) g…
The Discovery of King Tut " An Exhibit Worthy of a Pharaoh by Marilyn Lester Arguably the most famous Egyptian in the annals of world history is the "boy king" Tu…
"War teaches people nothing." – Bertolt Brecht by Monica Charline Brown Mother Courage and Her Children"Bertolt Brecht's dramatic method of processin…
by Susan Hasho Not all is well in Amber's life. She has the air of a woman overburdened and underappreciated. She's really pissed off at her seemingly unreliable …
A Mash-up of Love, Injustice and Power in Our Time, For All Time by Carole Di Tosti Resonance Ensemble is presenting an elucidation of the elements of greatnes…
by Monica Charline Brown Leonard David Goodisman's new work, My Backyard, is quite the wacky evening of entertainment. Addressing the environmental issues afflicting con…
by JK Clarke It may have taken Downton Abbey to make aristocratic costume drama accessible and mainstream, but it took the Bedlam Theatre Company to turn it into …
by Eric J. Grimm Phoenix Theatre Ensemble's production of August Strindberg's Creditors makes a fine case for reviving the 127-year-old play. Strindberg's brisk parlor d…
by Eric J. Grimm Company XIV's erotic dance fairy tales have quickly become a phenomenon at the West Village's Minetta Lane Theatre, with Nutcracker Rouge becomin…
by Samuel L. Leiter Are you a sitcom fan? Do you enjoy watching comic stereotypes (especially Asian and gay) run through smartly formulated, if admi…
Linda Lavin: My First Farewell Concert. Birdland, January 31, 2016 by Joe Regan Jr. Linda Lavin is receiving critical raves for her current Broadway perfor…
yeah, i met this girl… a look at the contemporary dating scene is on beat in the East Village by Monica Charline Brown The vi…
Theater-goers escaping New York winter can find some solace in Miami theater in The Golem of Havana. by Myra Chanin I have never been enamored with spendin…
Honoring Barbara Siegel: Accolades and honors for a busy showbiz personality. by Joel Benjamin Scott Siegel is a modern musical theate…
A comedy/drama that does itself in with a gimmicky ending. by Joel Benjamin Lauren Gunderson's I and You cheats the audience from the moment the lights ris…
by Maryann Lopinto The first Broadway Con Broadway convention (inspired, no doubt, on the enormous popularity of the "ComicCon" comic book conventions) thi…
by Kathryn Kitt What better idea for a musical than letting Dame Angela Lansbury be a diva–headlining her own show! You say she's 90 years old and unavailable to p…
A Raunchy, Cheese-filled, Evening of Levity with Commedia dell'Artichoke by Rudy Gerson Irreverent, salacious, and completely of the norm Commedia dell'Art…
Three characters clash and come out changed for the better. by Joel Benjamin Matt Morillo's Allen Wilder 2.0 is a tale of redemption that treads lig…
by Carole Di Tosti The first time I had the pleasure of seeing Loudon Wainwright III was at Caffé Lena, in Saratoga, New York in the 1970s. Lena's back then (it …
