164 stories by "Tony Marinelli"
Director Jared Mezzocchi uses the proximity of the actors to the audience to its best advantage. We don't even question when one of our ranks is pulled out to play Young Sunny. It adds to th…
Gabriel Kahane's pair of song cycles are a welcome throwback to when lyrics were poetry and told great stories. Think of the 70's when the airwaves were blessed with the voices and songwriti…
Four hardened male plainclothes police officers are being coached for a "suppression hearing" " that is a court proceeding prior to trial to challenge the legality of the evidence taken from…
In this return engagement of the site-specific "The Voices in Your Head" we are often asked to give pause in order to consider how differently we all process our grief. Earlier this summer a…
Betsy Aidem and Colleen Litchfield in Matthew Freeman's "The Ask" at the wild project (Photo credit:Â Kent Meister) We are still not done blaming Covid for the upsetting of our routines. …
Tarlton's work is not without promise. As a social critique of people who are surgically attached to their smartphones, it is somewhat spot-on. (Heaven forbid we miss that recent post docume…
Ehrenpreis' "Clowns Like Me" is sad, but true, and with the help of writer and director Jason Cannon, the brutally honest tale finds all the humor that's possible. Within a very few minutes …
Perhaps "Midnight Coleslaw's Tales from Beyond The Closet!!!" 's tagline "an evening of boner-chilling terror" was not meant to be a typo. The premise of an evening of one-act plays that exp…
Raja Feather Kelly, an award-winning choreographer of recent Broadway musicals "A Strange Loop" and "Lempicka," as well as "Teeth," the recent Playwrights Horizons success imminently getting…
Someone once coined the adage, "Write what you know."Â For the past few seasons, we have seen many writers have a lot to say about surviving the Covid lockdown, but none so eloquently as …
Koogler began writing "Staff Meal" in January 2020 and completed the first draft in April 2020…well, he certainly had time on his hands, but so did a lot of people. It's a wonder we didn't…
As we are instructed early on, the meal and the service are divided into 15 sections. The Seder is held in the midst, or as a significant part, of the whole of the play. It is then complemen…
While the ensemble cast is excellent throughout, we do feel Taylor Mac's absence when he goes offstage to change costumes (and that is quite a few times, one more sumptuous than the other " …
The performances are quite stellar. Jayne Atkinson's Helen is simply gorgeous. We do see that woman who 30 years ago wore a red dress to a party…and that was enough for Mark and Lorraine t…
Playwright Kairos Looney has given us a gift in these painfully beautiful moments. We explore a family's various ways of approaching love for and duty to each other with the result that we a…
Sarah Benson's direction is spot-on, but we find ourselves wishing the closing scene was more than just a plethora of bloody penises. This is where the creatives needed to say, "Okay, this i…
Enter young baritone Edwin Joseph. He has that dark curly hair and handsome face, yes, and the crucial understanding of the necessary swagger and selfishness that carries this character thro…
The text created by Bogart in collaboration with Maddow and Zimet is a collage of assembled passages from the works of Sartre and de Beauvoir, amongst others. Maddow and Zimet don't often sp…
It is a rare author indeed that can take uncomfortable material, and by uncomfortable that is, to hear, digest, and process a subject no one likes as a subject of conversation, and then give…
While we are presented with characters who are doing a noble thing and can be touched by what they go through to accomplish their task, Brian Belding's book and lyrics repeatedly take us out…
Jes succeeds where some other bio-storytellers fail. Jes' secret is being comfortable in their own skin to relate intensely personal experiences yet create a sense of universality, or commun…
Probably only David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones" (part of his Vietnam trilogy that included "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and "Streamers") is as demonstrative as "Lone Star" in its depic…
There are frequent breaks in thought such as "I forgot to mention at the top that I will be injecting my jokes with a bit of humor tonight as a way to keep them both engaging and fun." Thank…
Tatarsky uses language in a fresh way, ultimately giving the sensation of having created her own. There are so many thoughts overlapping, and there are accompanying unintelligible sounds and…
Not since Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George" have "civilians" gotten so close to the creative individual's "process" when attending a theater piece. David Adjmi's "Stereopho…
