Saturday, March 11, 2023
There an interview with me about PERICLES AND ASPASIA on National Public Radio station WSIU in Southern Illinois -- and I have to say I love it. I got to say things that I really, truly mean…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:52PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Novel Set In Ancient Greece Features Aspasia, a Real Life Historical Feminist Figure Defying Social Customs
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:33PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
Logan Crawford featured my novel, PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece on his TV podcast, "Spotlight." For those who would like to see it, here's the link:https://www.youtube.com/…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 11:55AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
An interview with author Yvonne Korshak, discussing Ancient Athenian theatre, Antigone, Sophocles and all things Pericles and Aspasia., on Philip Rowe's Podcast, "The History of European The…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:07PMFriday, November 18, 2022
PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A stellar, epic-length evocation of the golden age of Athens, rich with historical insight.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 12:56PMThursday, November 10, 2022
Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the
tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:30PMSunday, October 9, 2022
In Athens' Golden Age, Pericles, the statesman and general and Aspasia, one of the most influential women of the ancient world, find love against the odds, their story bringing to life the a…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 03:53PMSunday, November 24, 2019
What's particularly American about Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here -- the American landscape and the symbolism of new frontiers
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 01:51PMSunday, August 13, 2017
Not much enchantment but As You Like It is a wonderful play so that, even with this disappointing production, it’s not a wasted evening.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:21PM… without enchantment … As You Like It is a wonderful play so that, even with this disappointing production, it’s not a wasted evening. The language is so powerful and some of the …
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:21PMSaturday, July 22, 2017
A delightful musical filled with laughs-- that's Thoroughly Modern Millie, presented here with youthfully energy and joy.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:42PMA delightful musical filled with laughs-- that's Thoroughly Modern Millie, presented here with youthfully energy and joy.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:42PMSunday, July 9, 2017
A vintage photo of an African American seamstress in New York City in 1905 comes to touching, revelatory life in Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 03:44PM… spinning a play from a photograph … Intimate Apparel is a good play, worth seeing, though it’s not a you-must-see-it play like Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (2008) or her more recent Swea…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 03:44PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
A boy busily making up characters and drawing comics -- this show, based on Feiffer’s book The Man in the Ceiling is autobiographically inspired
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:30PM… segregation … The idea of this new musical show is that the world can be rough on for a little boy with a big imagination. Unfortunately this show can be rough on the audience. Young…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:30PMSunday, June 11, 2017
As Alice composes an email to let her parents know that she is gay, Fiona drops a bombshell:, telling Alice that she, Fiona, is a transgender
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:54PM… love and gender … Fiona (Anna Martine Freeman) and Alice (Alice McCarthy) are two young women lovers, expatriate Brits living in Rotterdam. On the very evening that Alice is composin…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:54PMSaturday, June 3, 2017
Annie Baker's The Antipodes is banal, pretentious theater based on audience recognition of character types and commonplace actions and speech.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:48PM… bored room … The Antipodes is a distasteful play. I’d found Annie Baker’s play The Flick as dull as dishwater, with no discernible redeeming merit. Still, I went to this one, The…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:48PMSunday, May 28, 2017
The songs, the musical splendor, the theatrical extravaganza and the powerful story are wonderfully realized, with a fine live orchestra.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:32PM… for sure come to Cabaret … If you want to see a top-notch production of one of the best American musicals, see Cabaret at the North Fork Community Theatre. The songs, the musical…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:32PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Opera and text fuse in this exciting production. Antigone expresses her anguish with a Verdia aria -- and the impact is tremendous.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:47PM … the force of destiny … Here’s an amazing experience! You walk into a small off-Broadway theater. The sta…
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:47PMThursday, May 18, 2017
A mind-expanding production of Vanity Fair. funny and visually fascinating. Miss Hamill has discovered the Berthold Brecht in Thackeray.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:20PM… all the world’s a vanity fair … This is a mind-expanding production of Vanity Fair. It’s also funny, extravagant and visually fascinating. The play, like the novel, focuses on …
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:20PMMonday, May 1, 2017
Young British idealists come up against the British capitalist nobility in a bad moment for the nobility -- but in a play of laughter and wit.
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 12:01AMThursday, August 8, 2013
Set in ancient Rome as its appealing title suggests (that title being one of the best things it has going for it) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forumis a zany comedy with music. A…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:13PMThursday, July 4, 2013
This play is hilarious -- one laugh after another, and done with style and vivacity. I enjoyed every moment -- and smile thinking back to it. It’s a spooky take-off on Gothic melodrama, Sh…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:12PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
... humanity ... This is a rare opportunity to see one of the finest and most compelling works of art ever made. The bronze Boxer* is somewhat over life-size but so immediate it’s hard to …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:43PMSunday, June 2, 2013
... the storm of war ... This outstanding exhibition moves ones thoughts between intimate experience and vast philosophical and artistic vision, all combining to give a vivid sense of the Ci…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:13PM 
