Review: Vanya at the Lucille Lortel by Carol Rocamora

An adaptation that highlights one astonishing performance without abandoning the themes of the original. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Vanya at the Lucille Lortel appeared first o…

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 6:57pm on March 30, 2025[SHARE]

London Theatre Review: THE YEARS (Harold Pinter Theatre) by Carol Rocamora

LONDON THEATRES' BOUNTIFUL OFFERINGS Spring may not have come yet, but it's already high season for the London theatre. And it's an exceptional one. Of the eight productions I attended last …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:42am on March 15, 2025[SHARE]

London Theatre Review: KYOTO (Royal Shakespeare Company) by Carol Rocamora

LONDON THEATRES' BOUNTIFUL OFFERINGS Spring may not have come yet, but it's already high season for the London theatre. And it's an exceptional one. Of the eight productions I attended last …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:44am on March 14, 2025[SHARE]

Off-Broadway Review: DAKAR 2000 (Manhattan Theatre Club World Premiere by Rajiv Joseph at New York City Center) by Carol Rocamora

A THILLER IN REVERSE "It's the story of a kid who just wanted to make a difference…" But what price does he pay for it? Boubs (short for Boubakar), the narrator of Rajiv Joseph's gripping …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 9:21pm on February 27, 2025[SHARE]

Review: Gypsy at the Majestic Theater by Carol Rocamora

Audra McDonald delivers a Rose for the ages. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Gypsy at the Majestic Theater appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:47pm on January 11, 2025[SHARE]

Broadway Review: CULT OF LOVE (Second Stage at Helen Hayes) by Carol Rocamora

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way… When Tolstoy wrote that line in Anna Karenina, he hadn't met the Dahls yet " that unforgettable family in Lesly…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 4:40pm on January 5, 2025[SHARE]

Quiara Alegría Hudes's 'Daphne's Dive' at Signature Theatre by Carol Rocamora

Philadelphia-born Quiara Alegría Hudes sets her newest play in a North Philly bar, against a backdrop of family and civic unrest.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:03pm on May 17, 2016[SHARE]

Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' on Broadway by Carol Rocamora

The special effects in Ivo Van Hove's stunningly radical production of The Crucible threaten to overwhelm Arthur Miller's eloquent plea for decency and integrity.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:26pm on April 29, 2016[SHARE]

'The Father' and 'Blackbird' on Broadway by Carol Rocamora

Some plays are too traumatic to sit through. I found myself in that bind last week, watching The Father and Blackbird" both well written and directed, both powerfully performed, both dealing…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:37pm on April 24, 2016[SHARE]

When slaves in Egypt owned slaves in Virginia by Carol Rocamora

How could Jews, of all people, have owned slaves in the antebellum South? Matthew Lopez’s inspiring new play, The Whipping Man, uses one such family as a parable of faith, family, free…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015[SHARE]

Four Lears in Six Months by Carol Rocamora

(Frank Langella as Lear in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production in January) "These late eclipses of the sun and moon portend us no good." So predicts Gloucester in King L…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 3:28pm on August 19, 2014[SHARE]

All Hail Macbeth! by Carol Rocamora

"By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes." A veritable army of Macbeths have been marching through New York these past few years, culminating in the spectacular one led…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:42pm on July 18, 2014[SHARE]

A discovery in N.Y., a fixture in Philly by Carol Rocamora

Watching Bruce Graham's absurdist comedy Any Given Monday, now being presented in New York by Ambler's Act II Playhouse, can't help but produce a warm and fuzzy feeling, especially if you're…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:29pm on October 30, 2011[SHARE]