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Off-Broadway Review: “The Gentleman Caller” at the Cherry Lane Theatre

May 14, 2018 | abingdon theatre, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | "The Gentleman Caller", Abingdon Theatre Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Christian Frederickson, Daniel K. Isaac, Hunter Kaczorowski, Juan Francisco Villa, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQA, Maria Baranova, Philip Dawkins, Sara C. Walsh, Tony Speciale, Zach Blane

“The Gentleman Caller” was the predecessor of Tennessee Williams first successful play “The Glass Menagerie” which opened in 1944 in Chicago and happens to be the title of a new play by Philip Dawkins which is having its New York premiere at Cherry Lane Theatre, being produced by Abingdon Theatre Company. Perhaps Mr. Dawkins should have taken the hint from…

Off-Broadway Review: “Oedipus El Rey” Creates Mythos at The Public’s Shiva Theatre

“No one should be considered fortunate until dead.” – Greek Maxim The fifth century B.C.E. is not the present-day Los Angeles borderlands: although the bones of Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus Rex” engaged the citizenry of Athens, urban America needs a Phoenix-like rebirth and retelling of the ancient tale to affect an authentic catharsis. Luis Alfaro’s “Oedipus El Rey,” currently running at…