Tracy Christensen

Off-Broadway Review: “Scotland, PA” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage would certainly be an audacious task. To go one step further, choose the horrific tale of Macbeth penned by William Shakespeare and take some extreme liberties to create…

Off-Broadway Review: Gingold Theatrical Group’s New Production of “Bernard Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra

October 3, 2019 | Off-Broadway, the old man, theresa alva lim > | April Ann Kline, Brenda Braxton, Brian Prather, Carol Rosegg, Dan Domingues, David Staller, Frederick Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, Jamie Roderick, Jeff Applegate, Jonathan Hadley, Rajesh Bose, Robert Cuccioli, Teresa Avia Lim, Theatre Row Theatre 1, Tracy Christensen

“Bernard Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra,” currently playing in Theatre 1 at Theatre Row, injects a palpable dose of modernity into the history of the relationship between Caesar’s Rome and Cleopatra’s Egypt. The 1898 play parses the political landscape in Shaw’s fictionalized account of the relationship between the royal pair and Cleopatra’s desire to assume complete control of the throne from…

Off-Broadway Review: “Pride and Prejudice” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre

Kate Hamill has done it again. The ‘it’ in question, is her remarkable ability to adapt Jane Austen’s iconic novels for the stage. Her adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” had a successful Off-Broadway run of over two-hundred and sixty-five performances. Her current adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” which is playing at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre should enjoy the…