Farce

Broadway Review: “The Play That Goes Wrong” at the Lyceum Theatre Extends Through January 6, 2019

During the April 2, 2000 matinee performance of Julie Taymor’s “Green Bird” at the Cort Theatre, a flying wall accidently struck actor Reg. E. Cathey during a set change in the dark. This unexpected interruption resulted in the cancellation of the performance and sent Cathey to the hospital for x-rays. Fortunately, the actor was not seriously hurt and was reported…

Off-Broadway Review: Ice Factory Festival’s “Fernando” at New Ohio Theatre

June 29, 2017 | Off-Broadway > | "Fernando", Andrew Watkins, Anna Grigo, Benjamin Furiga, Chris Ceraso, Christian Durso, Emilie Grossman, Farce, Greg MacPherson, Ice Factory, Jamie Richards, Maiko Chii, New Ohio Theatre, Psychosexual Farce, Steven Haworth, Vivia Font

Jamie Richards deftly directs Steven Haworth’s intriguing psychosexual farce “Fernando” at the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre. Mr. Haworth has written an engaging story about Zachariah Smythe (Christian Durso) an art scholar who has come to a museum in Madrid to continue his research on the Spanish painter Fernando Rafael Vasquez de la Cruz. The museum’s curator Terese…