1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By Carol Rocamora . . . Theater history was made this week when a new Stephen Sondheim musical opened at The Shed, New York's exciting new cultural center. It's a cause for celebrati…
By Myra Chanin . . . Girl Crazy, the birth mother of Crazy for You, opened on Broadway in 1930 with spectacular songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and two unknown young performers who bec…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The Mint Theatre is widely lauded for reviving modern plays that, while long forgotten, appear to be worthy of another look. Often, the revivals uncover shiny t…
By JK Clarke . . . There's been something of a drought in New York when it comes to Shakespeare plays over the past several years. Sure, there are the requisite Shakespeare in the Park p…
By Carol Rocamora . . . Theater has always reflected the "zeitgeist""at least that's been my experience. It's the most admirable mission of our art form"the "holding of the mirror up to natu…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . If there were a Central Casting list of American classical actors, Patrick Page would be near or at the top. At 61, the popular Broadway star possesses all the …
By Ron Fassler . . . Now you've listened to my storyHere's the point that I have madeChicks were born to give you feverBe it Fahrenheit or CentigradeThey give you fever. The song "Fever"…
By Ron Fassler . . . It's not enough to write dialogue that sounds like real people talking performed by actors with the talent to make it seem effortless. These accomplishments have to …
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Esther Williamson and Bill Bowers find themselves cycling through life as players with the Victoria Canada Bicycle Theatre Company in The Making of a Great Mome…
By Carol Rocamora . . . "You wanna be able to dream big, right?" So said playwright Nathan Alan Davis in a recent interview regarding The Refuge Plays, his prodigious, powerful new work …
By Marilyn Lester . . . In the music business, legacy is mainly about family"generally the descendants of a songwriter or musician of note, tasked with making sure the work is protected …
By Ron Fassler . . . When his country invaded Ukraine, Dmitry Krymov, a theater director of international reputation, was getting ready to come to the United States and direct Anton Chek…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Stage and film writers often find inspiration in familiar locales where a broad assortment of people congregate, among them bars, hotels, schoolrooms, and barbersho…
By Myra Chanin . . . I usually arrive at the theater with varying amounts of trepidation, greater when an unfamiliar drama by a world-renowned playwright is being performed by a comparativel…
By Melissa Griegel . . . Watching Josh Rhodes' version of Cabaret is like drinking a full-bodied glass of red wine, aged to perfection, rich, and filled with subtle notes of complex arom…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, who appeared at the Q&A after the press screening at Lincoln Center, highlighted a key point about the making…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Despite its title, don't expect Bite Me, Eliana Pipes's new Off-Broadway play at the WP Theater, to be about vampires (although there actually is a 2019 vampire mov…
Broadway Sings Queen " join Broadway talents including Christine Dwyer (Wicked, Waitress), Tony Nominee Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages), and Keri René Fuller (Six, Jagged Little Pill) t…
On October 9th at Sony Hall at the Paramount Hotel, Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV), is hosting the "Hope In Harmony: Award Ceremony & Fundraiser Cocktail Party." The evening's guest…
By Adam Cohen . . . George Street Playhouse presents the world premiere of The Pianist, a play with music, based on the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman and directed and adapted for the stag…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his most brilliant, inventively surrealistic film to date, award-winning Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things displays the artistic genius of the fant…
By Ron Fassler . . . When Golden Rainbow opened in early 1968, this eleven-year-old future critic had only recently seen his first Broadway show, I Do! I Do!, which was playing two blocks aw…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his latest film, May December, director Todd Haynes (Safe, Carol) constructs a thought-provoking, uniquely American story that highlights the culture's fascin…
By Myra Chanin . . . Marcie Gorman, the philanthropic co-founder, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of the MNM Theatre Company, formerly toiled in the corporate sector as the long…
By Ron Fassler . . . "Is it so hard to satisfy your senses?" are the first words we hear in the opening song from the iconic Melissa Etheridge in her biographical musical play, Melissa E…
