Paul Sparks

Off-Broadway Short Review: “Grangeville” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 23, 2025)

Two half-brothers half a world apart face the decline of their mother in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Grangeville” currently on at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre. The mood of the conversations between forty-something Arnold (Brian J. Smith) who lives in Rotterdam and his older half-brother Jerry (Paul Sparks) who still lives in Grangeville, Idaho range from…

Broadway Review: “Grey House” at the Lyceum Theatre (Through Sunday, July 30, 2023)

June 23, 2023 | Broadway > | "Grey House", Alyssa Emily Marvin, Andrew Morrill (Director of Artistic Sign Language), Christina Grant (Makeup Design), Claire Karpen, Colby Kipnes, Cyndi Coyne, Daniel Reece, David Caparelliotis (Casting), David Roberts, Eamon Patrick O’Connell, Ellenore Scott (Movement Consultant), Emma Safiyah Haeri, Erin Rosenfeld, Joe Mantello, Katie Gell and Robert Pickens (Wig and Hair Design), Laurie Metcalf, Levi Holloway, Luca Thomas, Lyceum Theatre, Mia Sinclair Jenness, Millicent Simmonds, MurphyMade, Natasha Katz pable(Lighting Design), Or Matias (Music Supervisor and A Cappella Arranger), Paul Sparks, Rudy Mance (Costume Design), Scott Pask (scenic design), Sophia Anne Caruso, Tatiana Maslany, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tom Gibbons (Sound Design), Winsome Brown

Years (decades, centuries, eons) of interminable suffering hang over the gables of Grey House. And while there is no forgiveness or redemption within, the walls of the house encase unrelenting guilt where it remains hidden tapping out its own somber language of confession. Things do more than go bump in the night in “Grey House” Levi Holloway’s tale of horror…

Off-Broadway Review: “At Home at the Zoo” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s The Irene Diamond Stage

“Hey, I got news for you, as they say. I’m on your precious bench, and you’re never going to have it for yourself again.” – Jerry to Peter Was anyone putting the disparity between “the one percent” and the remaining “ninety-nine percent” under the cultural microscope in the late 1950s? The Baby Boomers were booming and most believed the middle-class…