172 stories by "Tony Marinelli"
For the audience, there is an ease of losing sight of the fact that what we are watching is a piece of theatre. Campbell is direct and warm and instructing and sensitive in this piece that h…
Composer/librettists O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley have created what they refer to as "a re-Creation Myth" in this fascinating interdisciplinary opera theater work entitled "Iceland."Â It…
Some critics would say Eric Bogosian's "Drinking in America" is dated, but that's very much up for argument. The script given to critics for the new production at the Minetta Lane Theatre is…
Director David Herskovits must have looked at this as a true labor of love, but not all of the touches support the hard work of the actors. In some of the early ensemble scenes, the actors p…
While it may have appeared a huge gamble to mount this 'Cat" again, the results are so well worth it. While other productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" have been mounted as star vehicles fo…
When a tall, lanky Max Ritvo entered Sarah Ruhl's playwrighting class at Yale, she knew this was no ordinary 20-year-old student. Self-described as a poet with a sense of humor, he managed t…
Denise Manning as Amani is totally believable as a 9-year-old who has had to grow up quickly without parents and her naiveté about love as she maneuvers through growing pains is touching. H…
In the most elementary explanation of a play's dramatic structure, the protagonist is the character who drives the action and is the emotional heart of the narrative. Everyone knows how the …
Sam Morrison's poignant "Sugar Daddy" has been "on the boards" for just under a year, but first coming to prominence at last year's East to Edinburgh presentations at 59 East 59th Street The…
The York Theatre Company's masthead reads "Where Musicals Come to Life…" and that couldn't be more evident in their new production, "Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road." Originally scheduled…
Director Kotryna Gesait's direction does not have the necessary distance from the material to realize that actors speaking simultaneously will blur content and intentions for the audience. S…
Director Lorraine Serabian is faithful to the spirit of when these plays were written. She delves into the spirited dreamers and chance takers that Tennessee Williams so faithfully showed us…
Ensemble Studio Theatre's "38th Marathon of One-Act Plays," their first since 2019, is split up into two programs of five plays each, with an eleventh play, Vera Starbard's "Yan Tután," s…
Director Machel Ross does little to guide this play to any semblance of cohesion. Scenes 1 and 13, between Hound Dog and Ayse, her childhood best friend, begin with the exact same lines …
Belgian actor Ronald Guttman gives a subtle, yet wrenching performance in "The Fall," expounding the philosophies of Albert Camus trapped in the sad and now resigned character of the exiled …
Etheridge may be 61, but she sounds just as she did when she first came on the American rock scene in 1988:Â full-throated emotion and raspy vocals that bring honesty and pathos to intens…
Harms' play never lets up in its homage to corporate intrigue laced with humor. The audience's caring for how Regan and Guy end up is a given, so that we can forgive his "poetic license" in …
On paper, Diane Davis' play "Complicity" offers a stark, yet refreshing take on the now familiar Harvey Weinstein-tainted Hollywood story of women being victimized by a male-run, male-driven…
As conceived, directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner, who was also part of the creative team that brought the stage version of the 1954 classic Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" to Broa…
Maurice Ravel's delightful 'L'heure espagnole," usually paired with his other opera, "L'enfant et les sortilèges," is here paired with "Faust et Hélène," an obscure cantata by Lili Boulan…
Revived by Retro Productions, we are treated to Eric Overmyer's alternative Victorian fantasy, "On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning," that takes three vibrant, independent women of 188…
Commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company, Daniel K. Isaac's brilliant "ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME" was born out of the actor-playwright's realization that he knew way more about Shakespeare …
