Loving Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner is easy. Making an audience care about them theatrically? That is the challenge “Gene & Gilda” never manages to meet. Any play about such strong and well-known characters must earn that emotional investment through good writing, strong performances, and compelling staging, regardless of how much audiences might adore Gene and Gilda in real life….
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…
“See, this is the crux of the matter. We have different aesthetic touchstones. I am drawn to characters like Apollo, Persephone, Oedipus Rex. You prefer Jiminy Cricket – Bambi – Goofy. My Pluto lives in Hades, yours lives in a doghouse. You are living in some silly parallel universe, of which I want no part.” – Igor If the theme…
“The thing was, I was really good at it. And I loved it. I just loved being able to . . . I don’t know . . . make someone more comfortable. Make some of their pain go away. And it wasn’t just because it was someone I loved. It was . . . the fact that I was in…