AS EVERYBODY WILL LIKE IT To the mind of an ordinary Elizabethan, a forest in France might conjur thoughts of fairies, whimsy, beauty and adventure. While there is a Forest of Arden in Engla…
EARTHA HAS MOMENTS, BUT COULD USE A REPAIR KITT From almost any angle, singer/actress Eartha Kitt was a fascinating person. Born in 1927 into poverty and abuse in the American Deep South, sh…
A BLOODY BUSINESS WHICH INFORMS "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurley-burley's done, when the battle's lost and won…" These opening lines from S…
Scott Siegal's latest installment in his ongoing homage to commercial Broadway, appropriately titled Broadway By The Year, is an entertaining and enjoyable production that starts down memory…
EXCEPTIONAL EXCEPTION High school is a time of many rules, sometimes excessively so. How to dress, who to hang with, what's in, what's out, where to go, what to listen to " do you identify w…
QUE SERÃ, SERà Those of us of a certain age may remember the now classic opening credits of the popular, seventies, television sitcom The Odd Couple. Right before the catchy the…
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM The Father/Son relationship can often be difficult. It can be hard even when the father and son like, let alone love, each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the…
DOES GOD MAKE A CASE? I liked Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God. I didn't love it, just liked it. Admittedly, I'm in the minority opinion on this one, as many people unabash…
LIKE A ROLLING STONE I imagine that some time back, the Theater Gods were sitting around talking. They had the idea to collaborate on a stupendous theatrical event. They thought to combine t…
AS ¡AMERICANO! AS APPLE PIE The Merriam-Webster dictionary (remember dictionaries?) lists two definitions for the word dreamer. The first is simply "one that dreams." The second definitio…
FINALLY IN THE LOOP A Strange Loop, the new Broadway musical that currently towers above the rest, is a Brilliant show. With book, music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, this Brilliant show…
WALTZING AROUND AUNT SUSAN Aunt Susan & Her Tennessee Waltz by Toby Armour is one play in two acts that feels more like two, one-act plays on the same bill. The acts have little in commo…
FUNNY, HOW IT KINDA WORKS On the Internet exists a theater-centered, YouTube channel called "Staged Right". And there's an episode on Staged Right called Fanny & Barbra and the Legacy of…
NOT ENOUGH LAYERS IN THIS BIRTHDAY CAKE In playwright Noah Haidle's new play Birthday Candles, currently running at the American Airlines Theatre, television star Debra Messing ages before o…
NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE Once upon a time there was an aviator. One day, the aviator's plane crash landed in the Sahara Desert. The aviator survived but his plane was damaged. After landing, th…