… singing about work … People talked about working in Studs Terkel's oral history book of 1974, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do -- in…
Watch out for that that telescope! ... Allison Buck as Amanda, Seth Moore as Worthy. Photo Aaron Zebrock ...elixir of joy … Winter doldrums? …. Let Restoration Comedy completely restore …
After great success with his plays Waiting for Left and Awake and Sing! in 1935 -- and a stint of movie writing in Hollywood -- Odets returned to Broadway with Golden Boy in 1937. Being fami…
… translations … Le Luxe I, 1907 * (*full captioins below) Le Luxe II, 1907-8 Although this large exhibit covers most of Matisse's painting career, it has a specific focus: to bring toge…
Stag at Sharkey's, 1909, oil on canvas, 36 1/4x48 1/4 in (92x122.6 cm), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collections, c. The Cleveland Museum of Art As I began to walk through …
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Ivanov is not as perfect a play as Chekhov's Three Sisters or The Cherry Orchard, which came later, but I enjoyed it even more -- filled with fascinating and amusing characters, it spills ov…
. . . not a dragon tattoo but a . . . Simon and the Oaks is about two families with characters so vivid, attractive and complex that one becomes totally absorbed in them, worries for the obs…
Heresy is topical, very funny, and totally enjoyable modern parable filled with references to today's politics and based, roughly, on the life of Christ. Some of the characters have Biblical…
… aviation pioneers … Interestingly, diaries give an important slant on a character but they aren't a last word! A play about an encounter among three early aviators, Charles Lindbergh, …
This is an excellent production of a very well written and engrossing play that leaves off with an unpleasant sense of sound and fury signifying not much. It's about a husband and wife who c…
... as good as it gets ... Pook's Hill, a new theatre group, is presenting three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams -- 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton, Hello From Bertha, and This Property Is Cond…
For a thoroughly enjoyable time, go see The Anderson Twins Play The Fabulous Dorseys at 59E59. Here's how it goes: it's not a theater, for the time being, but a nightclub from the 1920's or …
... why do the righteous playgoers suffer? ... The story of Job reinterpreted by a contemporary playwright: what an intriguing idea. Exotic times and places -- here the ancient Near East, ar…
This is a fascinating exhibit, stimulating for its irony, humor, kaleidoscopic glimpses at American culture in the last 50 years, and interrelationships between artists with Warhol the creat…
… inadvertent … Among the Fugard plays I've seen, this -- possibly excepting the iconic The Island -- is the finest. It's intense, with a driving force. Especially interesting, although …
... a complete world ... Looking for an enchanted evening? You couldn't find a better one than an evening spent at South Pacific -- beautifully produced and played by the North Fork Communit…
... keep laughing, Clown ... With breathtakingly beautiful photography -- and the people are as fascinating to see as the city -- Woody Allen weaves together stories of lovers, Romans and vi…
Tickets Now On Sale For NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL 16th Annual Festival Runs August 10 - 26, 2012 Tickets are now on sale for The 16th annual New York International Fringe Festiv…
... Prospero on Shelter Island ... At the beginning, Ariel heads the storm tossed boat like a great, gleaming figurehead, thrown now this way now that by the waves and wind but at the same s…
... endangered species ... Men's Lives tells the story of what happens to fishermen on the East End of Long Island when the forces of change and politics put an end to the only way they know…
This is a one-person show in which Angela, a 44-year old woman, recounts the story of her divorce, from her husband's abrupt announcement that he's leaving her through her stages of coping -…
… if only I'd … If only I could have a do-over! What a frustrating experience it is to fail to come up with the right words at a critical moment " and pay for it, it seems, forever after…
The Independent Theater Bloggers Association (the "ITBA") is proud to announce the 2012 recipients of the Fourth Annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards, (the "the Patricks"). Patrick Lee …
Cloud City is a shimmering, spacious delight that plays with space and gravity and takes you to a new place. What an adventure! What do you see when you arrive at the roof? a very large stru…