Reviewed by guest author John Buscarello ... against the current ... Undertow, a wonderful simple film, focuses on a modest town where a modern perspective starts to crack open a closed vill…
The idea of an adaptation for theater of George Orwell's first novel, Burmese Days of 1934, is appealing but this production does not rise alive from Orwell's pages as a true dramatization. …
... The Marquis de Bradshaw ... One gets the impression that Thomas Bradshaw began by making a list of everything he could think of that might shock you re sexuality and worked his story to …
... The Marquis de Bradshaw ... One gets the impression that Thomas Bradshaw began by making a list of potentially shocking sex scenes and sex talk and worked his story to get in as many of …
… art, life and wit!… If you enjoy the pleasures of really deep satisfying laughs coming fast one upon the next, see Clowns Full-Tilt. It's marvelously performed, and constantly surprisi…
... prismatic perfection ... LA STRADA shines like a gem. The writing, acting, music, movement, mis en scene are perfect. Based on Fellini's great film of 1954, and now set in Spain, it tell…
... a big musical on its way ... Odyssey calls itself an epic musical and it is. It has the look of a musical headed to Broadway and -- with some strengthening -- it will get there. Meanwhil…
... not in our stars ... The cast is so star studded* that it's surprising that this production comes out no more than a workman-like Lear. But that's still alot: since it's such a great pla…
... star struck ... This exhibition brings together 90 publicity photographs, made by the big studios, of major Hollywood stars: the earliest is of Theda Bara as Cleopatra of 1917, and the l…
Raft of the Medusa is powerful, intensely human, and totally real -- you are there. Like Gericault's great shipwreck painting of the 19th Century based on an actual event, The Raft of the Me…
... it beats me ... ? I really don't know why anybody thought this play was worth producing. It's a shipboard farce, a sendup of ship narrative cliches presented with something like frolicks…
... don't miss this play ... Benita Cereno is electric -- a powerful, hard hitting play, historically and philosophically resonant. Set around 1800, and based on an actual incident, modified…
… liminality … Crane Story takes up an interesting topic: mixed states of being. Characters are Japanese and American, can seem both male and female, and move between the world of the li…
… so what'll we do now? … With The Select, The Elevator Repair Service, an outstanding experimental theater company, has for some reason, created a complete misfire. The adaptation, the …
Itamar Moses catches today's lingo like butterflies. Completeness is about young people, in the Computer Science and Biology Departments of a university, talking about love, molecular biolog…
... the hesitation ... I went to Brighton Rock (not usually going to gangster films) because Graham Greene writes great stories and I hoped his story would survive the movie. It does: the st…
FringeNYC 2011 Overall Excellence Award Winners Overall Production/Play: PigPen Presents The Mountain Song The More Loving One Overall Production/Musical: Yeast Nation Pearl's Gone Blue Perf…
Guest review by Mark Haggard, Cambridge, UK Viewing the Edinburgh Fringe -- Two vignette reviews cannot do justice to the productive maelstrom that is Edinburgh Fringe Festival, run every Au…
Josh Grisetti and the cast of Enter Laughing, The Musical. Photo: Bay Street Theatre I never saw anything funnier than Enter Laughing. The situations are hilarious, the songs are fun, and th…
Sarah's Key contains some of the most powerful, heart-wrenching scenes ever filmed -- and they're true. This film is important for making everyone aware of a particularly horrific episode in…
PRESS RELEASE Yeast Nation, photo Jay Sullivan Contact: Ron Lasko @ 212-505-1700 x. 11, ron@spincyclenyc.com First Sold Out Performances Announced NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL ** 1…
Guest review by Mark Haggard, Cambridge, UK The National Theatre has a great reputation for brilliant staging of old and new drama based on historical fact, to which witness the great succes…
… the Forest of Arden … What could be better than circling the fruitful fields of Sylvester Manor's Community Supported Agriculture farm to arrive at the windmill, sitting on the verdant…
It's a sit-com in reverse -- everything that looks normal and every-day turns out ghastly. This dark comedy takes potshots at the over-influence of the media and various clichés of popular …
TRU -- for Truman -- is a one-person play that takes up Capote's life after he published in Esquire magazine chapters of his novel Answered Prayers in which he exposed the seamy side of the …