Carol Rosegg

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 > | "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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Off-Broadway Review: “Fern Hill” at 59E59 Theaters

Part group therapy, part intervention, part Doctors Phil and Ruth, “Fern Hill,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday October 20, 2019, rehearses the events at Sunny’s (Jill Eikenberry) and Jer’s (Mark Blum) country farmhouse (Fern Hill) that take place with their close couple friends and frequent guests Vincent (John Glover) and Darla (Ellen Parker) and Billy (Mark Linn-Baker) and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Only Yesterday” at 59E59 Theaters

September 12, 2019 | Off-Broadway > | "Julia", "Let It Be", "Only Yesterday", 59E59 Theaters, Allison Crutchfield, Bob Stevens, Carol Dunne, Carol Rosegg, Christopher Flockton, Christopher Sears, Dan Kotlowitz, Danielle Zandri, George Harrison, Jane Shaw, John Lennon, Michael Ganio, Olivia Swayze, Psul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tommy Crawford

Writing a play about two iconic figures like Paul McCartney and John Lennon is risky business. Detailed information about their lives, their work, and their relationships is abundant and readily available. For a script about the famous pair to be engaging and relevant, the writing needs to include either new information or it needs to attempt to bring some new…

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Off-Broadway Review: Red Bull Theater’s “American Moor” at Cherry Lane Theatre

September 8, 2019 | hamilton, Off-Broadway > | "American Moor", "Othello", Alan C. Edwards, Carol Rosegg, Cherry Lane Theatre, Christian Frederickson, Dede M. Ayite, Josh Tyson, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Kim Weild, William Shakespeare, Wilson Chin

Keith Hamilton Cobb has been on an urgent mission, crisscrossing the United States since 2013 performing his “American Moor.” Mr. Cobb’s almost-one-man-show is a trope, here an extended metaphor, for the pressing need for dialogue around the systemic racism and other “false securities that our society rests on” (Rachel Elizabeth Cargle). Keith Hamilton Cobb makes it clear that unless we…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Little Gem” at Irish Repertory Theatre

Over the period of a year, three generations of Irish women share their stories ad seriatim while in a medical office waiting room. Amber (a spitfire Lauren O’Leary) rehearses her life from taking her beau Paul to a wedding, to his abandoning her after discovering she is pregnant with his child. Amber’s “ma” Lorraine (a pensive and seemingly broken Brenda…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson” at A.R.T./New York Theatre’s Mezzanine Theater

June 21, 2019 | Off-Broadway > | “Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson”, A.R.T./ New York Theatre’s Mezzanine Theater, Ann Harada, Avery Trunko, Bart Fasbender, Carol Rosegg, Christopher and Justin Swader, David Wohl, Dean Nolen, Geoff Josselson CSA, George Hampe, Jonathan Sale, Mary Ellen Stebbins, Renya De Courcy, Rob Ackerman, Theresa Rebeck, Tricia Barsamian, Yana Biryukova

“Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson” a new play by Rob Ackerman is based on the actual making of an ill-fated television commercial by AT&T that discredits the cell phone coverage of rival Verizon’s network. In that commercial, actor Luke Wilson (a convincing Jonathan Sale) stands in front of a Verizon network map covered with red dots to represent their coverage…

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