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Off-Broadway Review: “Scotland, PA” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage would certainly be an audacious task. To go one step further, choose the horrific tale of Macbeth penned by William Shakespeare and take some extreme liberties to create…

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Off-Off-Broadway Review: “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island” at The Producers Club

September 16, 2019 | LGBTQ+, Off-Off-Broadway, rikers island, sense and, the old man > | “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island”, Connor Chase Stewart, Eric C. Webb, Jacob Goldberg, LGBTQ, Prison Population, Prison Reform, Richard Roy, Rikers Island, The Producers Club, Thomas G. Waites

A grizzly and wisened Richard Roy emerges from the darkness at the beginning of “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island,” currently running at The Producers Club, to introduce his autobiographical “guide” to surviving the prison environment he shared for six months of his young adult life on Rikers Island on a charge of negligent homicide. Roy then steps off…

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Off-Broadway Preview and Interview: Lenore Skomal Shares Her Thoughts on Her New Off-Broadway Play “The Exes”

August 12, 2019 | awards, lenore skomal, News, Off-Broadway, sense and, this land is made > | "The Exes", Alison Preece, Bromance, David M. Farrington, Divorce, Galen Molk, John Coleman Taylor, Karen Forte, Kyle Porter, Lenore Skomal, LM SKOMAL PRODUCTION, Magda S. Nyiri, Theatre Row, Theatre Row Theatre 1, Tim Hayes

David: Lenore, your new off-Broadway show “The Exes” officially opens on Thursday August 15th at Theatre Row. That’s getting close! What are your thoughts and feelings as the opening approaches? Lenore: I’m thrilled. For the first time in my creative life, I’m truly enjoying this experience, from start to finish. Even with all the bumps that we’ve encountered along the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Enter Laughing: The Musical” at York Theatre Company

After a successful run in 2008 of the musical “Enter Laughing,” the revised version of the original “So Long 174th Street” which was a Broadway flop in 1976, The York Theatre Company has revived that production to kick off their 50th Anniversary season. The book by Joseph Stein, and music and lyrics by Stan Daniels, with additional material by Stuart…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Something Clean” at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Charlotte and Doug Walker’s son Kai will be home from prison in three months to begin his court remanded probation. Kai is a white university student athlete who was convicted of raping a black female student behind a dumpster at the school and is half-way through his six-month sentence. Kai’s transgression has shaken the Walker’s world and rent any sense…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Fire in Dreamland” at The Public’s Anspacher Theater

“There have been, and will be again, many destructions of [humankind] arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.” – Plato (“Timaeus”) Rinne Groff has created an engaging extended metaphor based on the 1911 fire that destroyed the iconic Dreamland on Coney…

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Broadway Review and News: “A Bronx Tale” at the Longacre Theatre Closes on Sunday August 5, 2018

“I went out into the world and I kept my/promise. I became somebody. I owed that to my/parents and to Sonny.” – Cologero The ingredients: a wonderful story of redemption by Chazz Palminteri; an outstanding cast; two (not one) directors with keen senses of staging (Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks); captivating music by Alan Menken; engaging lyrics by Glenn…

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Off-Broadway Review: Sensibility Reigns in “Summer and Smoke” at Classic Stage Company

Begun in 1945, and first produced in 1947, Tennessee Williams called “Summer and Smoke” a “drama of sensibility.” Rich in allegory, yet grounded in realism, the play explores the deep conflicts between body and soul and between the sacred and the profane and examines the themes of the marginalized and the results of having a poorly integrated sexuality. Currently running…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Pride and Prejudice” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre

Kate Hamill has done it again. The ‘it’ in question, is her remarkable ability to adapt Jane Austen’s iconic novels for the stage. Her adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” had a successful Off-Broadway run of over two-hundred and sixty-five performances. Her current adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” which is playing at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre should enjoy the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dolphins and Sharks” at Labyrinth Theater Company at Bank Street Theater

March 16, 2017 | dolphins and sharks, Off-Broadway, sense and, slave play, the field > | Bank Street Theatre, Cesar J. Rosado, Charlotte Brathwaite, Chinaza Uche, Dolphins and Sharks, Flor De Liz Perez, James Anthony Tyler, Labyrinth Theatre, Marsha Ginsberg, Pernell Walker

When recently entering the Bank Street Theater for the production of “Dolphins and Sharks,” the new play by James Anthony Tyler produced by Labyrinth Theater Company, I felt as though I was at a theatrical site-specific location. This is all due to the remarkable use of the small space, impressive attention to detail and encompassing the up close audience with…

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