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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” (Through Sunday July 11, 2021)

July 3, 2021 | days of, pennsylvania, sf gate theatre reviews, Uncategorized, water for > | "How I Learned What I Learned", Aleshea Harris, August Wilson, Aziza Barnes, Christopher V. Edwards, Donja R. Love, Jeremy O. Harris, Marcus Gardley, Mfoniso Udofia, Michael R. Jackson, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Robert O'Hara, Suzan-Lori Parks, Todd Kreidler

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” (Through Sunday July 11, 2021 By August Wilson Co-Conceived by Todd Kreidler Directed by Christopher V. Edwards Reviewed by David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited Looking carefully at the many windows looming upstage on Baron E. Pugh’s set for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage production of “How I…

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Video on Demand: GFour Productions “Middletown” (Streaming through Sunday April 4, 2021)

March 17, 2021 | a man of, dan clancy middletown, the old man, Uncategorized > | "Middletown", Adrian Zmed, Didi Conn, Don Clancy, Donny Most, GFour Productions, OVERTURE+, Sandy Duncan, Seth Greenleaf

Dan Clancy’s play “Middletown” reflects on the lives of two couples who establish a close friendship, supporting each other through the trials and tribulations that life brings their way. The couples that guide you through this journey spanning several decades are Peg (Sandy Duncan) and Tom (Adrian Zmed), and Dotty (Didi Conn) and Don (Donny Most). During the preface of…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me” at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater

February 26, 2020 | i am, i will, i do, i love you so, Off-Broadway, Uncategorized > | “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me”, Anna Holbrook, Barra Grant, Elisha Shaefer, Eve Brandstein, Florence Kemper-Bunzel, Joan Marcus, The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, Tom Jones, Yael Lubetzky

The audience seemed to enjoy the production now playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater entitled “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter” written and performed by Bess Myerson’s daughter Barra Grant. This comes to the New York stage after a successful year long run in Los Angeles. It is basically a solo show except for the voice of Bess Myerson provided…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Bergen” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre

There is a bleak, doleful new play entitled “Bergen” that is being presented as part of The Broadway Bound Festival at the 14th Street Y. More a play with songs than a musical, “Bergen” is set in the near future in Norway where a motley group of mediocre rock musicians try to decide what to name their band. They set…

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Off-Off-Broadway Review: “Anonymous, Anonymous” at FringeNYC 2016 at the Kraine Theatre

August 15, 2016 | hamlet, NY International Fringe, Off-Off-Broadway, Uncategorized, working at fringenyc > | Fringe NYC 2016, Kraine Theatre

“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” – William Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act II, Scene 2. If a play has no playwright, is it a play? If a playwright’s play is entitled “Anonymous, Anonymous,” is he or she really a playwright? When is any play finished? When it has a working title? When the playwright fulfills…

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Off-Broadway Review: “ICON” at the New York Musical Festival at the Duke on 42nd Street

July 24, 2016 | 42nd street, athan gousios email, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway, Uncategorized > | Duke on 42nd, New York Musical Festival

A tiny foreign nation, a people’s princess, a gay prince, an arranged marriage, a scandal, a revolution, and a fire that destroys lovers’ hopes and dreams certainly makes interesting material for good old-fashioned musical theater. “Perfect,” the opening number of the new musical “Icon,” is derivative of Kander and Ebb in style and tempo and explodes onto the stage to…

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