Harvey O'Brien
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens adapted by John Mortimer Within three months of its first publication, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol had already been adapted for the stage. By February 1844 it was running ...
Roy Sorrels
Playwright and university professor Eduardo Machado was part of an interesting and rather bizarre footnote to history. In 1961 the Peter Pan Project, organized by a Catholic bishop in Miami with the cooperation of the CIA, brought thousands of ...
Roy Sorrels
The Breaking Manager (1999), Sander Hicks a collection of three plays including The Breaking Light Playwright and university professor Eduardo Machado was part of an interesting and rather bizarre ...
Harvey O'Brien
Tom Murphy’s deconstruction of affirmational therapy and the culture of pseudo-psychoanalytical holism was first performed in 1983. The date is of no particular significance, as the play is devoid of specific social or political references. It is not without ...
Roy Sorrels
New York Theatre Workshop October 17 - November 18 The best way to enjoy a Flannery O'Connor short story is with a lazy afternoon, under a tree perhaps with the buzz of bees in ...
Arthur Lazere
James Joyce had a theory of "epiphanies" which posited that seemingly insignificant incidents can be the source of profound insights. The Dead, his short story first published in 1914, is his theory proven. In its brief length, a handful ...
Suzanne Weiss
Sooner or later it had to happen. Cesaria Evora put on shoes. Granted they were old-man slip-on bedroom slippers but shoes all the same. The grandmotherly diva of world music, famed for shuffling onstage in her bare ...
Roy Sorrels
Basic to the enjoyment of most plays is the temporary suspension of disbelief. We know Hamlet is actually George Spelvin, a chap we might run into on the subway or see on the corner eating a hot dog. Those ...
Harvey O'Brien
Chair consists of reflections on life and death loosely organized around the fragmented story of a female serial killer awaiting execution by electric chair. She reminisces about her crimes and the nature of human existence. Is the taking of life ...
Roy Sorrels
The Center of Gravity is two hours of pure comic delight, served up on the vest-pocket stage of the Manhattan Theatre Source with style, energy, and a marvelous combination of slapstick, down home wit, and oddly touching philosophic depth. ...
