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Off-Broadway Review: “The Seven Year Disappear” at the Pershing Signature Center (Through Sunday, March 31, 2024)

As patrons enter the performance of Jordan Seavey’s “The Seven Year Disappear” at The Pershing Square Signature Center, they see Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) sitting across from her thirty-something son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch). The two are motionless and intently staring at one another in the style of Yugoslav performance artist Marina Abramović facing off with a MoMA patron in the famed…

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Benefit Performance News/Preview: “I Put a Spell on You: Witches ERA” at Sony Hall on Monday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m.

October 10, 2023 | Uncategorized > | "I Put a Spell on You: Witches ERA", Ali Forney Center (AFC), Harms of Homelessness, Jay Armstrong Johnson, LGBTQ+ Youth

Jay Armstrong Johnson welcomes a new cast of characters for this year’s Halloween concert-meets-dance-part “I Put a Spell on You: The Witches ERA,” including Tony Award Nominee Justin Cooley (Kimberly Akimbo), Tony Award Nominee Robyn Hurder (Moulin Rouge!, A Beautiful Noise), recording artist Mila Jam, reigning SIX Queen Taylor Iman Jones (The Devil Wears Prada)RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15’s Marcia…

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Broadway Review: “Here Lies Love” at the Broadway Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 26, 2023)

August 9, 2023 | Uncategorized > | "Here Lies Love", ” Conrad Ricamora as “Ninoy Aquino, ” Jose Llanaas as “Ferdinand Marcos, ” Melody Butiu, Aaron "AJ" Mercado, Aaron Alcaraz, Alex Timbers, Angelo Soriano, Annie-B Parson, Arielle Jacobsas as “Imelda Marcos, Billy Bustamante, Broadway Theatre, Carol Angeli, Clint Ramos (costume design), David Byrne, David Korins (scenic design), Evan Zimmerman (2023), Fatboy Slim, Foresight Theatrical, Gail Quintos, Geena Quintos, Jasmine Forsberg, Jaygee Macapugay, Jeigh Madjus, Jose Luis Pardo, Joseph Verlezza, Julia Abueva, Justin Townsend (lighting design), Kristina Doucette, Lea Salonga, M.L. Dogg & Cody Spencer (sound design), Matthew Murphy, Moses Villarama, Nathan Angelo, Reanne Acasio, Renée Albulario, Roy Flores, Sarah Kay, Shea Renne, Tara Rubin CSA, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Timothy Matthew Flores, Tom Gandey, Xavier Rubiano CSA

One of the best things about the new incarnation of the musical “Here Lies Love” which has recently opened at the Broadway Theatre, is that it does not rely on that common fact that Imelda Marcos had more than enough shoes. There are many other aspects of this production that make it an entertaining evening, including the cast, music, technology,…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” (Through Sunday July 11, 2021)

July 3, 2021 | days of, pennsylvania, sf gate theatre reviews, Uncategorized, water for > | "How I Learned What I Learned", Aleshea Harris, August Wilson, Aziza Barnes, Christopher V. Edwards, Donja R. Love, Jeremy O. Harris, Marcus Gardley, Mfoniso Udofia, Michael R. Jackson, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Robert O'Hara, Suzan-Lori Parks, Todd Kreidler

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” (Through Sunday July 11, 2021 By August Wilson Co-Conceived by Todd Kreidler Directed by Christopher V. Edwards Reviewed by David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited Looking carefully at the many windows looming upstage on Baron E. Pugh’s set for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage production of “How I…

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Video on Demand: GFour Productions “Middletown” (Streaming through Sunday April 4, 2021)

March 17, 2021 | a man of, dan clancy middletown, the old man, Uncategorized > | "Middletown", Adrian Zmed, Didi Conn, Don Clancy, Donny Most, GFour Productions, OVERTURE+, Sandy Duncan, Seth Greenleaf

Dan Clancy’s play “Middletown” reflects on the lives of two couples who establish a close friendship, supporting each other through the trials and tribulations that life brings their way. The couples that guide you through this journey spanning several decades are Peg (Sandy Duncan) and Tom (Adrian Zmed), and Dotty (Didi Conn) and Don (Donny Most). During the preface of…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me” at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater

February 26, 2020 | i am, i will, i do, Off-Broadway, Uncategorized > | “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me”, Anna Holbrook, Barra Grant, Elisha Shaefer, Eve Brandstein, Florence Kemper-Bunzel, Joan Marcus, The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, Tom Jones, Yael Lubetzky

The audience seemed to enjoy the production now playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater entitled “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter” written and performed by Bess Myerson’s daughter Barra Grant. This comes to the New York stage after a successful year long run in Los Angeles. It is basically a solo show except for the voice of Bess Myerson provided…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Bergen” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre

There is a bleak, doleful new play entitled “Bergen” that is being presented as part of The Broadway Bound Festival at the 14th Street Y. More a play with songs than a musical, “Bergen” is set in the near future in Norway where a motley group of mediocre rock musicians try to decide what to name their band. They set…

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Off-Off-Broadway Review: “Anonymous, Anonymous” at FringeNYC 2016 at the Kraine Theatre

August 15, 2016 | hamlet, NY International Fringe, Off-Off-Broadway, Uncategorized, working at fringenyc > | Fringe NYC 2016, Kraine Theatre

“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” – William Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act II, Scene 2. If a play has no playwright, is it a play? If a playwright’s play is entitled “Anonymous, Anonymous,” is he or she really a playwright? When is any play finished? When it has a working title? When the playwright fulfills…

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Off-Broadway Review: “ICON” at the New York Musical Festival at the Duke on 42nd Street

July 24, 2016 | 42nd street, athan gousios email, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway, Uncategorized > | Duke on 42nd, New York Musical Festival

A tiny foreign nation, a people’s princess, a gay prince, an arranged marriage, a scandal, a revolution, and a fire that destroys lovers’ hopes and dreams certainly makes interesting material for good old-fashioned musical theater. “Perfect,” the opening number of the new musical “Icon,” is derivative of Kander and Ebb in style and tempo and explodes onto the stage to…

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