Helen Hayes

Broadway Review: “Cult of Love” at the Helen Hayes (Currently On)

It is important to pay attention to the title of a play, especially in the case of Leslye Headland’s well-crafted “Cult of Love” currently running at the Helen Hayes. The Dahl nuclear family cult began early in the lives of the Dahl children. Diana (Shailene Woodley), Evie (Rebecca Henderson), Johnny (Christopher Sears), and Mark (Zachary Quinto) experienced a sheltered childhood…

Off-Broadway Review: “Skin of our Teeth” at Theatre for New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center

March 3, 2017 | Off-Broadway, sanctuary city, you will die > | Arin Arbus, Brooklyn, Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Pulitzer Prize, Skin of Our Teeth, Tallulah Bankhead, Theatre for New Audience, Thornton Wilder

If ever there was an allegorical play, this is it. Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” was written in 1942, won the Pulitzer Prize, had two apparently great productions on Broadway – starring the likes of Mary Martin, Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March and Helen Hayes—then poorly received ones, and subsequently was deemed extremely difficult to pull off. Well, Theatre…