Burning by Thomas Bradshaw, directed by Scott Elliott, The New Group at the Acorn Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

... 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 …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 9:40am on November 19, 2011☆⚑

Burning by Thomas Bradshaw, directed by Scott Elliott, The New Group by Yvonne Korshak

... 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 …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:37pm on November 14, 2011☆⚑

Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics, created and directed by Kendall Cornell in collaboration with the ensemble, Clowns Ex Machina, at La MaMa by Yvonne Korshak

… 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 4:44pm on November 12, 2011☆⚑

LA STRADA, written by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano, adaptated by Gerard Vazquez, directed by Rene Buch and Jorge Merced, starri by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:24am on November 3, 2011☆⚑

ODYSSEY - The Epic Musical, Matt Britten Director, book and lyrics; Dimitri Landrain Composer, vocal arrangements; Daniel Sefik Music Diretor, additio by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 3:39pm on October 27, 2011☆⚑

King Lear by William Shakespeare, directed by James Macdonald, The Public Theater by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 6:10pm on October 22, 2011☆⚑

Silver Screen Silver Prints, Hollywood Glamour Portraits from the Robert Dance Collection, curated by Ann H. Hoy, The Grolier Club, NYC by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 8:48am on October 18, 2011☆⚑

Raft of the Medusa by Joe Pintauro, Premier of Revised Edition, directed by Francisco Solorzano, Barefoot Theatre Company at the Cherry Lane Studio Th by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 4:46pm on October 9, 2011☆⚑

Felix & The Diligence by Colby Day, story by Colby Day and Daniel Johnsen, directed by Daniel Johnsen, the Pipeline Theatre Company by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 9:46pm on September 29, 2011☆⚑

Benito Cereno by Robert Lowell, based on Herman Melville's novella, directed by Woodie King Jr., Horizon Theatre Rep at the Flea Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 4:44am on September 25, 2011☆⚑

Crane Story by Jen Silverman, directed by Katherine Kovner, The Playwright's Realm at The Cherry Lane Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

… 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 5:07pm on September 22, 2011☆⚑

The Select (The Sun Also Rises), based on Ernest Hemingway's novel, directed by John Collins, created by Elevator Repair Service, at New York Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

… 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 …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 5:44pm on September 17, 2011☆⚑

Completeness by Itamar Moses, directed by Pam MacKinnon, at Playwrights Horizons by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 3:43pm on September 6, 2011☆⚑

FILM NOTE " Brighton Rock, with Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, and Andy Serkis, directed by Rowan Joffe, based on the novel by Graham by Yvonne Korshak

... 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 1:44pm on September 3, 2011☆⚑

Fringe Festival NYC 2011 -- Overall Excellence Awards -- Here Are the Winners! by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 5:07pm on August 31, 2011☆⚑

OFF-BROADWAY IN EDINBURGH -- My Picks of the Edinburgh Fringe: Request Programme by Franz Xaver Kroetz, directed by Hedvig Claesson, SIRIS Original Theatre, and Kafka And Son, directed by Mark Cassidy, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd/Threshold/Assembly by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 12:50pm on August 24, 2011☆⚑

OFF-BROADWAY IN SAG HARBOR " Enter Laughing, The Musical, book by Joseph Stein, Music & Lyrics by Stan Daniels, Music by Direction Phil Reno, Music Arrangements & Orchestrations by Matt Castle, Direction & Musical Staging by Stuart Ross by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 6:40pm on August 18, 2011☆⚑

FILM NOTE -- Sarah's Key, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance. Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 7:32pm on August 9, 2011☆⚑

FRINGE NYC -- 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival: August 12 - 28 by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:18am on August 5, 2011☆⚑

OFF-BROADWAY IN LONDON -- Emperor and Galilean by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Jonathan Kent, at the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, London by Yvonne Korshak

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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:17pm on July 23, 2011☆⚑

Off-Broadway in Shelter Island, L.I. " Shakespeare's As You Like It at Sylvester Manor's Windmill, performances July 16 and 17, directed by Sarah Hankins, The Green Theatre Collective by Yvonne Korshak

… 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…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 5:01pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

OFF-BROADWAY in SAG HARBOR -- Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang, directed by Trip Cullman, Bay Street Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

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 …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 9:39am on July 11, 2011☆⚑

OFF-BROADWAY IN SAG HARBOR - TRU by Jay Presson Allen, with Darrel Hammond as Truman Capote, directed by Matt McGrath, Bay Street Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

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 …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 8:06pm on June 26, 2011☆⚑

Unnatural Acts, written by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, Classic Stage Company by Yvonne Korshak

Unnatural Acts is a strong and thought provoking play based on a true and tragic event: the purge of a group of gay men at Harvard University in 1920. The catalyst was the suicide of Cyril W…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 8:00pm on June 23, 2011☆⚑

A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers, directed by Jackson Gay, Mint Theater Company by Yvonne Korshak

… All aboard … A Little Journey is about what happens to a group of strangers back when travel across our broad United States meant a four-day train trip. Who'd be sharing your Pullman "…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 5:38pm on June 17, 2011☆⚑