Thursday, December 12, 2019
Ames Adamson and Company
Credits: Joe Guerin
It is a treat to see Neil Bartlett’s inventive but purposefully faithful stage adaptation of “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol”…
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(L-R) Angel Lin (Charlotte), Dee Hoty (Madame), Ashley Blanchet (Ella), and Rose Hemingway (Gabrielle)- photo by Jerry Dalia
It won’t matter very much to most audience members attending …
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Tammy Blanchard and Jonathan Graff
Photo: Emilio Madrid-Kuser
Everyone’s favorite mutating carnivorous plant is in bloom again. This time back Off Broadway where it belongs and where it…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 02:36PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Ben Jacoby & S K Harris
To give its writer William Shakespeare his due: The title of Shakespeare’s comedy takes a lot for granted. With the ageless displays of invention and h…
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Amie Bermowitz and Steve Brady star in “Memoirs of a Forgotten Man” at New Jersey Repertory Company now through Sept. 15. Photo courtesy Andrea Phox
I have only once ever before written …
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Playwright Rohina Malik has deployed elements of nearly every dramatic genre for her impassioned play “Yasmina’s Necklace.” From sitcom to agitprop, from farce to soap opera and from r…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 07:46PMTuesday, September 10, 2019
(L–R) Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston (Photo: Marc Brenner)
Three terrific leading actors making their Broadway debuts and a fine director’s new perspective on an old play …
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Real honest-to-goodness thunder, lightning and rain created premature authenticity outside the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey on the evening I attended and where N. Richard Nash’s …
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L. to R. Kathy McCafferty, Kelley Rae O'Donnell, James Gushue, Wayne MaugansPhoto credit: Mike PeterOnce again blood proves to be thicker than water and certainly true in the wake of …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 04:53PMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Jennifer Ellis and Bryant Martin“The Bridges of Madison County” may be the most purely romantic musical of our times. As re-envisioned by book writer Marsha Norman (‘night, Mother”) …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 07:29PMFriday, May 24, 2019
(left to right) David Warshofsky and Gilles GearyPhoto Credit: Joan Marcus It is doubtful whether there will be a more spectacularly stunning opening minute for any play this season....and t…
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Donnell E. Smith as Bowzie.
Although I previously saw this award-winning (2017 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award) play a year ago in New York, it made a lasting impression on me, one that ma…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 01:09PMSunday, May 5, 2019
Maryann Plunkett, Sarah Street and Ed Malone Photo credit: Carol RoseggIt would be very easy to be under the delusion that I was not, in fact, at the Irish Repertory Theater in NYC but ra…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 08:19AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Tracy Letts and Annette Bening (photo credit: Joan Marcus)
What irony there is having productions of Arthur Miller’s excellent emotions-extracting drama “All My Sons” emerge with a…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 07:55AMThursday, April 4, 2019
Ruth Wilson and Glenda Jackson (photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe)
It is to be expected that a seasoned critic would have seen William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” more than once, perhaps…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 09:58PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Maryann Plunkett and Ciaran O'Reilly (photo credit: Carol Rosegg) What Sean O’Casey’s political tragicomedy “Juno and the Paycock” lacks in plot, it makes up for in characterizatio…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:59PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase (photo credit: Joan Marcus)Another opening, another revival of “Kiss Me, Kate” or perhaps re- titled “Kick Me, Kate,” as this is what…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:50PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
Courtesy of Joan Marcus
From left: Manu Narayan, Jessie Austrian and Ben Steinfeld in 'Merrily We Roll Along'
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It has become a pleasure for me to look forward to performances by The Fi…
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Ethan Hawke and Paul DanoPhoto credit: Joan Marcus What is it about Sam Shepard's “True West” that packs a wallop each and every time I see it -- and that is four times if memory serves?…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 06:39AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Jeremy Pope and members of the cast Photo credit: Matthew MurphyTarell Alvin McCraney's “Choir Boy” premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II in 2013. It is now in revival wit…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 09:24AMTuesday, January 1, 2019
Members of the supporting castphoto credit: Caitlin McNaneyOkay, so you missed this terrific show during its brief Off-Broadway run in 2012 and then perhaps missed it again when it showed up…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:45AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Jeff Daniels and Gbenga Akinnagbe (photo: Julieta Cervantes)The good news is that Jeff Daniels is a terrific Atticus Finch -- without diminishing the memory of the sterling Academy Award-win…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 02:08PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Jon Barker and Erin Partin (photo: Jerry Dalia)You can really feel the chill of winter in the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of Shakespeare partly morose, partly magical “A…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 04:15PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Nicholas Rodriguez (center) and companyForgive me if I am not playing fair when I say that this absolutely delightful production of “Holiday Inn” has the sparkles even if it is not gener…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 03:46PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Kellie Overbey and Ann McDonoughphoto: T. Charles EricksonNora slamming the door at the end of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” has to be one of the most famous exits in all dramatic …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 05:30PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Kerry Washington and Steven PasqualePhoto: Peter Cunningham
I am pleased that “American Son” has found its way to the Booth Theatre on Broadway following its premieres at the Barrington …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 08:25AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Emma Degerstedt and ensemblephoto credit: Joan MarcusIt’s not that I wasn’t listening to the radio during the 1950’s and 1960’s, but I just didn’t think that such songs as “Baby …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:13AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Donna McKechnie photo: Jerry Dalia How often have we heard someone over sixty years old say, When you become a senior you become invisible? That may be all too true in some circles,but…
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Jesse Mueller and Joshua HenryPhoto credit: Julieta Cervantes Nothing is going to change the fact that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Carousel” is unrelentingly sentime…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 03:19PMMonday, April 2, 2018
Alison Pill, Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)
None of the disaffection for a series of Edward Albee’s plays that followed years of success and great acclaim …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 11:23AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Eric Tucker and Vaishnavi Sharma
Remember “Pygmalion”? It’s “My Fair Lady” without the Ascot Gavotte. If you share the English-speaking world’s fondness for George Bernard S…
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