Betsy Aidem

Off-Broadway Review: “Liberation” Misses the Mark at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Through Sunday, March 30, 2025)

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. There is gratuitous and unnecessary nudity on stage that requires patrons to relinquish their phones before entering the theater. That nudity is completely unnecessary: the questions raised about the characters’…

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “Final Follies” at the Cherry Lane Theatre

October 4, 2018 | history, Off-Broadway > | "Final Follies", A.R. Gurney, Betsy Aidem, Cherry Lane Theatre, Colin Hanlon, Cory Pattak, David Murin, David Saint, Deborah Rush, Greg Mullavey, James Leynse, James Youmans, Mark Junek, Piter Marek, Primary Stages, Rachel Nicks, Scott Killian, Stephanie Klapper Casting

Given the long-term relationship that existed between A.R. Gurney and Primary Stages, it is befitting that the prolific playwright requested his agent to send his newest one act play “Final Follies” to the theater company for production in 2017. It turned out to be ominously and aptly titled since he passed soon after, leaving this to be the last play…