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Video on Demand Review: The Irish Repertory Theatre’s “Meet Me in St. Louis: A Holiday Special in Song and on Screen” (Through January 2, 2021)

The Irish Repertory Theatre has been a leader in providing accessible online performances during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Digital Fall Season begam on September 22 featuring five Performances on Screen and three special events. All events are free, with donations suggested for those who can afford to give! Reservations are required to access Performances on Screen, and captions are available on Thursday…

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Video on Demand Review: Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” Starring Jefferson Mays (through January 3, 2010)

December 21, 2020 | a christmas carol, a man of, Best Bet, the collaboration, the old man > | "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens, Chris Whitaker, Dane Laffrey, Geffen Playhouse, Jefferson Mays, Michael Arden, Susan Lyons

“Scrooge,” Noel Langley’s 1951 black-and-white film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” is perhaps the most celebrated version of the holiday classic. Notable among the several solo “A Christmas Carol” performances are those featuring Guy Masterson, Patrick Stewart, and Dick Terhune. But none of these matches the filmed version starring Jefferson Mays which is based on the acclaimed 2018…

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Video on Demand Review: San Francisco Playhouse’s “Song for a New World” (through December 31, 2020)

It is not at all news that theatre stages throughout the world have been dark and empty since the outbreak of COVID 19 and the rise of this virus to pandemic proportions, but it is also a redeeming fact that an incredible number of theater companies has begun to reinvent the collaborative art form, hoping to reach their audience through…

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New Film Preview: “#valentinesday” – A Romantic Comedy About Modern Love and Dating – Coming February 2021

November 24, 2020 | a man of, Best Bet, LGBTQ+, News, Previews, the old man, this land is made, water for > | #valentinesday, Alzheimer's Research UK, Dreambird Studios, Finlay MacMillan, Francis Lovehall, Mark Forstater, Nathan Neuman, Sam Dudeck, Tessa Bonham-Jones, The Faith Belief Forum

Dreambird Studios debut feature film, #valentinesday, produced by industry veteran, Mark Forstater (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) is set to be released on February 14, 2021. A modern day rom-com written by Sam Dudeck and Nathan Neuman, who also makes his directorial debut, will star Francis Lovehall (Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe”), Tessa Bonham-Jones (Wonder Woman 1984) and Finlay MacMillan…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Bella Bella” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I

November 26, 2019 | a man of, asi wind, kimberly, Off-Broadway, the old man > | "Bella Bella", Caite Hevner, Harvey Fierstein, Jeremy Daniel, Jill BC Du Boff, John Lee Beatty, Kimberly Senior, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City Center Stage I, Rita Ryack, Tyler Micoleau

There are times during Harvey Fierstein’s performance in his “Bella Bella,” currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I, that the audience is convinced – sans dress, sans hat, sans props – that he is the iconic social activist “Battling Bella.” When Mr. Fierstein channels Bella’s admonitions about the “voice of the people” superseding the importance…

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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…

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Broadway Review: “Slave Play” at the Golden Theatre

“Slave Play,” currently running on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, reiterates the events on the fourth day of the Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy being held at MacGregor Plantation, a few miles south of Richmond, Virginia. Three couples have signed up for the workshop to engage in the “radical therapy designed to help black partners re-engage intimately with white partners from…

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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…

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Off-Broadway Review: “runboyrun” and “In Old Age” at New York Theatre Workshop

As a result of playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s profound interest in the African Diaspora, perhaps no fictional couple in the recent history of Off-Broadway theatre have had their histories more parsed than Nsikan Disciple Ufot and his wife Abasiama Ekpeyong Ufot. “runboyrun” and “In Old Age,” currently running at New York Theatre Workshop, are the third and eighth plays in Mfoniso…

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Off-Off-Broadway Review: “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island” at The Producers Club

September 16, 2019 | LGBTQ+, Off-Off-Broadway, rikers island, sense and, the old man > | “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island”, Connor Chase Stewart, Eric C. Webb, Jacob Goldberg, LGBTQ, Prison Population, Prison Reform, Richard Roy, Rikers Island, The Producers Club, Thomas G. Waites

A grizzly and wisened Richard Roy emerges from the darkness at the beginning of “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island,” currently running at The Producers Club, to introduce his autobiographical “guide” to surviving the prison environment he shared for six months of his young adult life on Rikers Island on a charge of negligent homicide. Roy then steps off…

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