A tender, tragic tale
In Broadway Rose Theatre Company‘s season finale, The Last Five Years (writer and composer Jason Robert Brown), tells the story of the short marriage of two young artists–Cathy [...]
“Three wayward sisters” do The Scottish Play
An outstanding and gritty performance of Macbeth is now onstage at the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. The play is intriguing in that it has been edited down to a [...]
Music and the heart
Walking into Broadway Rose Theatre to see Once (book by Edna Walsh), one is transformed to a Dublin street set. A jolly bunch of musicians/actors play fiddles, guitars, and an accordion on stage [...]
Mala-a meditation for the sandwich generation
Melinda Lopez‘s Mala, now onstage at CoHo Theatre, is a very difficult play for those of us at a certain age to watch. This 80-minute one-act details the life of Mala (Julana [...]
Ordinary Days–beauty and connection
Four New Yorkers in a city of eight million souls look just like any other four New Yorkers. Warren (Seth M. Renne) peddles pamphlets with upbeat sayings on a Manhattan street corner. Angry small [...]
Magellanica–8 1/2 months in the speaking darkness
I’ve never wanted to go to Antarctica. Too dark. Too cold. No good restaurants. But scientists love it. In the world premiere of E.M. Lewis’s Magellanica, six of them are falling all [...]