Month: August 2017

News: Cherry Lane Theatre’s Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi Steps Down as Artistic Director of Cherry Lane

August 30, 2017 | harmony, News, Off-Broadway, on beckett, on the head of a pin > | Angelina Fiordelisi, Cherry Lane Theatre, Janio Marrero, Seri Lawrence

Cherry Lane Theatre’s Founding Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi will step down as Artistic Director of Cherry Lane, where she has been developing, producing and creating new programs for playwrights, and has been a driving force since she acquired the legendary Off-Broadway theatre 21 years ago. The Board of Directors of Cherry Lane Theatre have officially tapped Ms. Fiordellisi’s longtime associates,…

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News: Under the Artistic Leadership of John Ortiz LAByrinth Theater Company Announces Plans for 25th Season

August 30, 2017 | broadway company mail, News, Off-Broadway, public theater > | Angelina Fiordelisi, Cherry Lane Theater, In Arabia, Janio Marrero, Jimmy Smits, John Ortiz, LAB25: FULL CIRCLE, LAByrinth Theater Company, Motherf**Cker with the Hat, Portia, Seri Lawrence, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Steppenwolf Theater Company, We’d All Be Kings

In the wake of a recent leadership change, LAByrinth Theater Company, now under the direction of Company Founder and Former Artistic Director John Ortiz, makes exciting plans for LAB’s upcoming 25th Anniversary Season in 2017-2018. In celebration of 25 years of creating vital new works of American Theater, LAByrinth kicks off the season with LAB25: FULL CIRCLE, a collection of…

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Broadway Review: Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Prince of Broadway” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Some audience members attending the engaging “Prince of Broadway,” currently running at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, might find themselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea: either they are unforgiving musical theatre aficionados and find themselves constantly comparing the iconic musical numbers with the original Broadway production of the shows from which they come, or they have…

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Broadway Review: “The Terms of My Surrender” Unshackles Fear at the Belasco Theatre

Michael Moore is without doubt an iconic figure. Mr. Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender,” currently playing a limited engagement at the Belacso Theatre, dispels any doubt about his archetypal status. Near the end of the lengthy two-hour and twenty-five-minute monologue (with a guest and some needless dancing and questionable – though pleasurable – stripping male “police officers”), Michael Moore…

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

August 16, 2017 | Off-Broadway > | “Image”, 14th Street Y, 14th Street Y Theatre, Anne-Marie Cusson, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Gregory Fletcher, Jack Garrity, Jack Rushen, Lisa Bostnar, Priscilla Villanueva

“Image,” the new play by Jack Rushen currently playing at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre, examines the behind the scenes activities of the unscrupulous publicist/manager Corbett as he deals with the drug overdose of one of his top clients. Gianna, his teenage singing sensation, lies near death in the ICU of Cedars-Sinai hospital. He…

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

In Riley Thomas’s “Convicted,” currently playing at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre, a dedicated group of convicted – some damaged – individuals gather to equitably resolve a situation that has spun out of control. The situation was precipitated by a phone call from Toper (played with an innocence marred by deep pain by Dylan…

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

August 12, 2017 | Off-Broadway, sympathy in c > | “Sympathy in C”, 14th Street Y, 14th Street Y Theatre, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Charles Ouda, Denise Collins, Living with Cancer, Madeline Docimo, Peter Levine, Rachel Marcus, Russell Erik Kohlmann, Suzanne Mernyk, Sylvie Mae Baldwin, Terrorism, Terry Hanson, Tygar Hicks

Suzanne Mernyk’s “Sympathy in C,” currently running at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre, is an engaging symphony for six actors and two musicians about the need for sympathy – sympathy in the diagnosis of cancer and sympathy in the world of politics. The cast is arranged in a semi-circle each seated behind a music…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Small Town Confessions” at the Broadway Bound Theatre at the 14th Street Y Theatre

Hearing the undisclosed “confessions” of nine peculiar residents from a small southern town, one may presume that the whole is the sum of its parts, and these offbeat characters provide a good representation of the core of the abstract community at hand in Anitola Parish. It is anchored on one end by gossip monger, quasi tour guide, JoBeth Maybelline, who…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Curvy Widow” at the Westside Theatre

After Bobby’s (Nancy Opel) writer husband Jim (Ken Land) collapses dead on top of his typewriter, she begins to deal with her loss facing “half a life” and realizing Jim has been “all [she’s] ever known.” No longer “in control,” Bobby begins to ask important questions: “Is it time to make choices yet? Start again at my age?” Or is…

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

August 8, 2017 | Off-Broadway > | “Bone on Bone”, 14th Street Y, 14th Street Y Theatre, April Bartlett, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Dan Henry, Geraldine Leer, Gina Solebello, Mark Coffin, Marylou DiPietro, Misti B. Wills

When the audience first meets Jonathan (Mark Coffin) and Linda (Geraldine Leer) in their New York residence, they are a couple together for thirty-five years whose marriage seems to be suffering from osteoarthritis: the “stuff” between them that would allow them to smoothly glide over one another has eroded over time through the wear and tear of the normal “ups…

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