1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear," we were told over 50 years ago in the Motown classic "I Heard It Through the Grapevine.…
Theater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Over the course of Shakespearean theater, Hamlet has been a plum part for an actor, a test of thespian skill and ability. Sir Laurence Olivier, Mark …
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . After a sold-out run, Atlanta's Horizon Theatre has, wisely, returned the Dave Molloy musical for an extended run through March 3rd. While the Broadwa…
Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . . Pre-show house music of Guns n' Roses, the Ramones, and Nirvana promised a "rock and roll" King Lear, but Frog & Peach Theatre Company's new prod…
Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . . When someone is referred to as an icon or a legend during their lifetime it can often be a burden. Who can live up to that? It was Nathan Lane who once sa…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . It was around this time last year when I first took in a performance by The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, a New York-based company that has…
Theater Review by Alix Cohen . . . . I reviewed this terrific play with its original star, Wade McCollum, and have returned to see the burgeoning interpretation by Darius Rose (drag alter-eg…
Theater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Props to the Paper Mill Playhouse for bringing back After Midnight. It's a theatrical revue that sings, swings, taps and lets loose with a whole lot …
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . For almost 15 years, I lived on Greenwich Street, a long road that extends north from downtown Manhattan, past the World Trade Center site, all the…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I can't recall the last time I attended something when, as the lights came up at its conclusion, most of the audience were in twos and threes huddled in…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In its iconic exploration of alcohol's seductive toxicity, Days of Wine and Roses (the Musical), directed by Michael Greif, is even more searing and…
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . In the recent past, going off into the wild blue yonder on Boeing's iron birds has been a flight against fear . . . and rightly so. What a history! Thei…
Theater Review by Yani Perez . . . . The 15th Annual The Fire This Time Festival " Ten-Minute Plays showcased six emerging playwrights at the Wild Project this past weekend in collaboration …
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Plays running three hours or longer generally tend to deal with big issues, often spread out over large swathes of time. Think, for example, of Ang…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The current theater season in London is generating enough excitement and heat to warm the worst of this winter weather. Two glorious productions show…
Cabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I've reviewed restaurants and entertainment in New York and Long Island for over 20 years for various publications, so you'd better believe that the…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . On a freezing cold January evening last night, the Songbook Sundays series, part of Jazz at Lincoln Center, paid tribute to composer and lyricist Fr…
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I really wanted to write a special review about The Wick Theater's production of Fiddler on the Roof, because I found the performance so compelling. It …
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Ten actors take their seats in a semi-circle onstage at BAM Fisher's Fishman Space, script in hand, as if ready for a reading of a play. But as they …
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Watching The Search Party last night at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater, I thought to myself: this is why we go to the Under the Radar Festival…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . It all begins rather innocently enough. Before entering BRIC for Krymov Lab NYC's return mounting of author/director Dmitry Krymov's Pushkin "Eugene On…
Music Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Tovah Feldshuh is not just a superb performing artist. She's an unbelievably versatile theatrical life force. The internet claims she's 75, but she looks …
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Joshua Harmon clearly understands the delicate magic of theater. Prayer For the French Republic opens in 2016 with a Jewish family in Paris pl…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Half a block from The Hayes Theater we could see Sarah Paulson's hostile glare radiating anger from the marquee. "I would not want to end up on her ba…
Cabaret Review by JK Clarke . . . . Wednesday, December 6, saw Urban Stages come alive for the first of two nights of music centered around the famed Algonquin Hotel, as part of Urban Stages…
