Jane Shaw

Off-Broadway Review: Bedlam’s “Persuasion” at the Connelly Theatre (Closed Sunday October 31, 2021)

Bedlam’s 2016 “Sense and Sensibility” was fresh, buoyant, engaging, and richly authentic. Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s text was transformative theatre, groundbreaking theatre, immersive theatre, theatre not to be missed. Eric Tucker’s sparse and inventive staging exposed the pure joy of Jane Austen’s popular text. Jane Austen’s goal as a novelist was never to obfuscate; rather, her purpose was…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Fear” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

November 17, 2019 | Off-Broadway, trapped > | "Fear", Alexander Garfin, Andrew Boyce, Christine Catti, D.M. Wood, Enrico Colantoni, J. David Brimmer, Jane Shaw, Jeremy Daniel, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Mary Jo Slater, Matt Williams, Oana Botez, Obi Abili, Tea Alagic

Perhaps the most problematic element in the new play “Fear” by Matt Williams is that it is flooded with too many sources of fear that tend to diminish the fear that might actually be present during the action of the play. Characters display their fear of infidelity, bullying, child welfare and safety. These concerns and fears are all revealed while…

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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: “I Was Most Alive with You” at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage

Present, past, and several possible futures collide with the biblical story of Job in Craig Lucas’s “I Was Most Alive with You” currently playing at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage. And within each time frame and tale exist a multitude of layers of complexity and contingency about the human condition, particularly its vulnerability and resilience in the face of elucidated and unexplained…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Days to Come” at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre

The moral turpitude of those who “consume” is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman’s 1936 “Days to Come” currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre. On the surface, Hellman’s second play focuses on the dispute between labor and management in the small town of Callom, Ohio where Andrew Rodman’s (willful but wimpish Larry Bull) family brush…

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