Suzanne Weiss
A circus always is fun and John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves, newly opened at Berkeley Rep, is a three-ring lollapalooza. You’ve got your hero, Artie (Jarion Monroe), a wannabe songwriter who feeds the animals at the zoo ...
Karen Weinstein
An extramarital affair.Almost a cliche, yet to the people having the affair it can become the center of the universe.At least at the beginning. In Betrayal, playwright Harold Pinter works backwards.The first two scenes are in the present.Scene one, ...
Karen Weinstein
If summer is a time for light amusement (and that seems to be the theory under which Hollywood studios and book review sections of newspapers operate), then by all means have a couple of Margueritas and go enjoy Communicating Doors. ...
Gerald Rabkin
After a season's hiatus, the musical megahit strikes again, following much the same formula as its triumphant predecessor, The Producers. Take an excellent film of yesteryear, one already containing musical elements which can be built upon, iron out some ...
Gerald Rabkin
The fledgling Broadway season, having gotten under way with a solid revival of I'm Not Rappaport, follows with another two-character actors' vehicle from the 1980s, Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune. An intimate, bittersweet, romantic play about the ...
Gerald Rabkin
The Apollo Theatre on West 125th Street, in the center of Harlem's major business district, has always represented something much more than a venue for popular entertainment. As with the Palace in the heyday of vaudeville, if you played ...
Harvey O'Brien
John Bosco (Mick Lally) is a fifty three year old bachelor living in rural Kerry. He has been consigned to a life of celibacy by a combination of religiously inspired sexual guilt, social ineptitude and plain bad luck. His ...
Harvey O'Brien
Themes of exile and homecoming are explored in Hugh Leonard’s Da. The story revolves around the living memories of Charlie (Se�n Campion), a grown man who returns home to Ireland after the death of his father (Stephen Brennan) only ...
Gerald Rabkin
"There are no second acts in American lives," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is often true but also often not. Two of America's premiere post World War II playwrights, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee, despite periods of audience neglect ...
Gerald Rabkin
"Write about what you know": We may safely assume that Thomas McCormack offered this familiar bit of sage advice to many a novice author during his more than a quarter-century career as working editor/CEO at St. Martin's Press. For ...
