Carol Rosegg

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “On That Day in Amsterdam at 59E59 Theaters (Through Sunday, September 4, 2022)

Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo’s “On That Day in Amsterdam” (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted story of risk, disenfranchisement, immigration policy, art history, and duplicity that has little to do with the narrative’s main characters. This is unfortunate given the actors are outstanding, the direction first-rate, and the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Butcher Boy” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, September 11, 2022)

August 22, 2022 | butcher boy, Off-Broadway > | "The Butcher Boy", Amanda Quaid is the Dialect Coach, Andrea Lynn Green, April Ann Kline is the Production Stage Manager, Asher Muldoon, Barry McNabb, Carey Rebecca Brown, Carol Rosegg, Casting is by JZ Casting, Christian Strange, Ciarán O’Reilly, costume design by Orla Long, Dan Macke, Daniel Marconi, David Baida, David Hancock Turner, David Roberts, Emma Camp, Emma Camp is the Assistant Choreographer, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jade Doina is the Assistant Stage Manager, Joe Cassidy, Kerry Conte, Liam Prendergast is the Assistant Director, lighting design by Kat Zhou, Mask Design is by Stanley Allan Sherman Mask Arts Company, Michele Ragusa, Nicholas Barasch, orchestrations by Muldoon and Sammy Grob, Patrick McCabe, Polly McKie, projection design by Dan Scully, Properties are by Brandy Hoang Collier, Rick Sordelet is the Fight Director, Sam Hartley, scenic design by Charlie Corcoran, Scott Stangland, sound design by M. Florian Staab, Teddy Trice, Theatre Reviews Limited

As children fishing together and hanging out at the hide they had built in the chicken house, Francie Brady (an emotive and troubled Nicholas Barasch) and Joe Purcell (the effervescent and spirited understudy Dan Macke at this performance) know they could “live this way forever.” But both boys live in Ireland’s troubling neocolonial times. The political violence and the economic…

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Off-Broadway Review: Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater’s “sandblasted” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 13, 2022)

As Stacey Derosier’s lighting comes up on the stage of Charly Evon Simpson’s “sandblasted,” which is currently being co-presented by Vineyard Theatre and Women’s Project Theater at the Vineyard, Angela (a willful yet vulnerable Brittany Bellizeare) and Odessa (a confident and temperamental Marinda Anderson) slowly emerge from behind beach umbrellas (“where the sand is”). Both complain about the omnipresence of sand…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Incantata” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage

March 9, 2020 | back the future, irish repertory, Off-Broadway, sea wall > | "Incantata", Carol Rosegg, Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jack Phelan, Maureen Hughes, Paul Keogan, Paul Muldoon, Rosanna Vize, Sam Yeats, Sarah Jones, Sinéad Diskin, Stanley Townsend, Teho Teardo

“[That’s all that’s left] of that daft urge to make amends/when it’s far too late, too late even to make sense of the clutter/of false trails and reversed horseshoe tracks/and the aniseed we took it in turn to drag/across each other’s scents, when only a fish is dumber and colder.” – “Incantata” Stanley Townsend is the celebrated Irish actor who…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Sabbath Girl” at 59E59 Theaters

A new play entitled “The Sabbath Girl” by Cary Gitter is the latest production to take the stage in theater “B” at 59E59, transferring from Penguin Rep Theatre where it had its world premiere. It presents itself as somewhat of a rom com, structured similarly to a sitcom, moving the action forward with a series of very short scenes. The…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Pumpgirl” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre

December 27, 2019 | irish repertory, Off-Broadway, pumpgirl > | "Pumpgirl", Abbie Spallen, Carol Rosegg, Clare O'Malley, Fan Zhang, Hamish Allan-Headley, Irish Repertory Theatre, Labhaoise Magee, Michael O’Connor, Molly Seidel, Nicola Murphy, W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre, Yu-Hsuan Chen

The strength of Abbie Spallen’s “Pumpgirl,” currently running at Irish Rep’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre, lies in the playwright’s authentic characters and their believable conflicts that connect to the timeless vicissitudes of the human condition. The pumpgirl (a lachrymose yet enlightened Labhaoise Magee) at the petrol station in present day County Armagh, Northern Ireland fantasizes night and day about…

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Off-Broadway Review: “One Discordant Violin” at 59E59 Theaters

November 18, 2019 | Off-Broadway, transl > | "One Discordant Violin", Aaron Collier, Ann-Marie Kerr, Anna Shepard, Anthony Black, Carol Rosegg, Ingrid Risk, Jacques Mindreau, Nick Bottomley, Yann Martel

Layers of discord populate the story line of Anthony Black’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s short story “The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton.” The short story appeared in Martel’s 2004 “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios.” Reviewer Christopher Priest in the “The Guardian” called it “the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Kingfishers Catch Fire” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre

Four years after the Ardeatine Caves Nazi Massacre, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (a conflicted and contrite Sean Gormley) visits Colonel Herbert Kappler (a robust and tenacious Haskell King) in his cell in an old-fashioned prison in Gaeta, Southern Italy. Kappler, an SS Colonel and head of Hitler’s Gestapo in Rome, was responsible for the massacre of 355 Italians (a random number…

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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: “Dublin Carol” at Irish Repertory Theatre

October 1, 2019 | a christmas carol, irish repertory, Off-Broadway, review dublin carol > | "Dublin Carol", Carol Rosegg, Charlie Corcoran, Ciarán O’Reilly, Cillian Hegarty, Conor McPherson, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jeff Davolt, Jeffrey Bean, Leon Dobkowski, M. Florian Staab, Michael Gottlieb, Ryan Rumery, Sarah Street, Sven Henry Nelson

Undertaker John Plunkett (Jeffrey Bean) and his intern Mark (Cillian Hegarty) enter the office of a funeral home on the Northside of Dublin where John works. They have just finished a service and John compliments Mark on his work at the graveside. With that non-descript arrival, Conor McPherson’s “Dublin Carol,” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company, begins its narrative. Over…

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