1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By Myra Chanin . . . The Thin Place is the charmingly chilling play by Lucas Hnath that deals with a provocative issue of mortality: whether there actually is an existence beyond death and, …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The availability on streaming and cable of so many popular mainstream movies of the past is tempting for theater reviewers about to see a show based on one of t…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Probably no other New York stage director has as recognizable a style as John Doyle (The Color Purple), who has been regularly demonstrating it at the Classic S…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Judging by the last three shows I saw, dialogue drama, like democracy and the economy, is in serious trouble. After seeing the one-hander Albert Camus' The Fall…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . You Will Get Sick, Noah Diaz's frequently puzzling new play at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, may have the most off-putting title around, but its content …
By JK Clarke . . . Sometimes when you walk into a theater for a show you know little to nothing about, you hope it's going to be simple and straightforward, with no contrivances or exces…
By JK Clarke . . . Bedlam, one of New York's most creative and innovative theater companies, has been at it for ten years now. Bursting out of the gate that first year (2012) with outstandin…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 1956, a year before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus, the Algerian-born French writer famous for his philosophical novels The Stranger and The…
By Myra Chanin . . . If you, like me, are a first-generation American-born child of Russian immigrants who suffered greatly in the Bad Old Country before arriving in The Golden Land, the…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Turkey, the fowl, appears in dozens of plays, especially those set on or around Thanksgiving; but Turkey the country is a rarity on the American stage. HOUND DO…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . With Chushingura"47 Ronin, Ako Dachs, a respected New York actress born and bred in Japan (where she was a Takarazuka member!) has undertaken a unique but aweso…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Cine-memoir is difficult to approach, but with acute sensitivity writer-director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) does a yeoman's job tackling his most personal f…
By Ron Fassler . . . If you like puns (such as the title of this show, Villain: DeBlanks), a pre-Halloween Trick and Treat was had by one and all this past Tuesday evening in the cabaret spa…
By Ron Fassler . . . In the excellent one-person show, Everything's Fine, now playing at the DR2 Theatre, Douglas McGrath portrays himself. An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Bulle…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In 2017, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey smashed through the patriarchal norms that allowed and even encouraged sexual predation in the workplace with cover-ups, se…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . 1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's historical drama about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which won multiple Tony and other awards in 1969"…
By Marilyn Lester . . . When you're an actress, a vocalist that handles musical theater as well as opera, and have a resemblance to a world-famous legend of the opera world, what do you …
By Ron Fassler . . . Broadway veteran Kurt Peterson, a part of the original cast of Follies (in addition to a host of other musicals), offered a one-man show Monday evening that he has d…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Sarah Polley's spare, darkly spun, cinematic treatise Women Talking, is an imaginative adaptation of Miriam Toews' titular bestseller. Toews' novel is based …
By Carol Rocamora . . . Rarely does a play come along with the majesty and magnitude of Leopoldstadt, the monumental new work by the celebrated British playwright Tom Stoppard now playing on…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In TÇ»r Todd Field has written and directed a masterpiece starring Cate Blanchett in the complicated portrait of a world renown symphony orchestra conducto…
By Ron Fassler . . . I consider myself fortunate to have seen the original Broadway production of 42nd Street in its opening week, back in 1980. The biggest hit of that season, it won the To…
By Carole di Tosti . . . A whimsical, picaresque adventure told through the viewpoint of a donkey, Jerzy Skolimowski's EO is a stunning film, visually haunting and poetic. The legendary Poli…
By Ron Fassler . . . Upon entering the Linda Gross Theater for the Atlantic Theater's production of Grace Garner's new play, I'm Revolting, you are met by a strikingly realistic set that…
Initial casting for this 34th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS includes Liana Sta. Ana (Broadway: Miss Saigon), Will Blum (Broadway: Beetlejuice), Benai Alicia Boyd (LA: Bronco Billy), Kai An…
