27 stories by "Margret Echeverria"
Malone wrote a musical comedy?! Yep. Lemme tell ya: The tale of Cyrano De Bergerac inspired Malone to write the book for STARTSTRUCK. She then collaborated with Emily Saliers - I k…
And speaking of reflection, a piece composed by Renee Rosnes titled Mirror Image is featured in this show. The piano chords begin dissonant as though they are announcing a coming tempest.…
... we are being seduced from the first moments of sound. Iyer starts on the Fender Rhodes keyboard, which he manipulates into soft bells ringing out a beautiful summer day and calling i…
The first piece, Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk), Scott starts with a beat that feels out the space and brings us in. Hays takes over the lead in a skillful melodious syncopation - like n…
The best part about watching these seasoned players is that the scaffolding of the games' structures was often so hidden that it felt like there were no rules; you know the rules, right? …
The young men sit at the table of master manipulator, Dragutin "Apis" Dimitrijevic (Patrick Page). Page brings bright engaging charisma to this historical figure. His comedy is in hi…
Joyah Dominique (Melissa) is going places. Any Broadway casting director should have her on speed dial. Her instrument is utterly fluid embodying Melissa's heart, through surprise hu…
Arjuna's own son, Abhimanyu, is lost in the battle.  We do not expect this as he is only fifteen years old. Krishna allows a bending of truth to come from the mouth of Yudhishthir…
Fernandes and Ravi Jain boldly combine tradition, rich with layered messages and meaning, with struggles of our modern Western-dominated world. Characters are gender fluid, feminine wisd…
... the world outside Young Omara's experience is about to explode. New Year's Eve 1958 in Havana is the night Castro's revolutionaries violently drive out Batista's regime and take over…
Katie Brayben is Tammy Faye in this production and unlike Faye herself, Brayben has an incredible set of pipes. Tammy Faye was born and raised as Pentecostal in Minnesota, just a few mil…
Hey, You; crying in your martini about a particular Tuesday in November: This is New York City; home of some of the yummiest drag queens in the world. Pay your tab and head on over to Ne…
The advertising for this show tells us that it will make us want to call our moms. Hmmm. I'm not sure about that. I'll bet your mother is not much like Quinlan's mother. I ha…
Roger-McKeever gives us a memoir of a rebellion that is just so common I can't see it as radical: Straight married man begins an affair with a woman not his wife behind his wife's back and, …
Patrick tells us of his grandparents - cousins - who miraculously survived as Jews in Paris through the entire war (cousins married all the time back then). Irma (Nancy Robinette) and Ad…
I love the playful style in "What is This Thing Called Love," as all three musicians awakened us out of our January doldrums with their unexpected percussive opening. It is sexy, as if e…
Gather 'round, Children and let me tell you of a time when one could live in New York City, work part time, develop art, present it and sell it. All this could happen while paying rent a…
In "Night of the Iguana" at Pershing Square presented by La Femme Theatre Productions and directed by Emily Mann, the only creatures with a high stakes awareness of a trapped existence are t…
The proposal was gauche, the marriage quickly followed, the penguin who attended the wedding was fantastic and the divorce comes before the top tier of the cake is even cold in the freezer.Ã…
The staging puts sex and violence in our laps. Iris and Dan have sweet heat in the beginning.  My gut twists with empathy as Iris abandons her prescribed vigilance and identifies …
by Margret Echeverria Many of us have been stuck in guilt over the racial divide in this nation for too long healing nothing. Healing requires action. Jonathan Crory, Artistic Direct…
Lucy (Jordan Boatman) the woman for whom all the trouble is made, is Helen of Troy gorgeous. With heaving bossom, she is such a master of physical comedy that we and all the "men" on the…
There's a mimicry scene between Ohashi and Peyman that is quite chilling. Clare may harden in this chill or she might just be surrendering to madness. I honestly don't know as we are…
We witness unexpected acts of kindness like Scott heating up Sahar's couscous in the kitchen even though Sahar has been chatting forever and not doing a lick of work. Prakash speaks her …
The show is refreshingly written and acted so honestly that it might be too painful if it weren't so often very funny. What is further genius is that parts of the show are not written at…
