1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A classic night at Shakespeare in Central Park. Warm, slightly muggy weather? Check. A helicopter or two overhead? Check. A raccoon making an unexpected entranc…
Producers Richard Bell, N'Kenge, Park Row Equity Partners, Tegan Summer, Sam Williams, Michael Loeb and Derow Enterprises, in association with Coalition for African Americans in the Performi…
by Carole di Tosti . . . Three generations of gay, Black men living together provide the grist in the conflict of Mansa Ra's lightly comedic drama, …what the end will be, presented at …
By JK Clarke . . . Let's go back to the beginning and remind ourselves that Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is fundamentally about social change. Almost cataclysmic social change in s…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Since 1995, the mission of Off-Broadway's Mint Theater has been to revive worthy but forgotten plays, mainly British and American. Some have proved gems, some i…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Dinners and dinner parties, the automatic catalyst for awkward, revealing and often life-changing interactions, have fascinated such writers as Thornton Wilder, A…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Presented by the Voyage Theater Company in their World Premiere, Don't Look Back, by Adam Kraar, highlights current issues and profound themes in his reimagining…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . "There's a part of me that really wants this program note to say 'Corsicana is a small city in Texas. This play is about four people who live there. Thanks fo…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Way back in 1938, George Abbott, with the help of a couple of New York songwriters you might have heard of"Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart"adapted William Shakespe…
By Marilyn Lester . . . When percussionist, composer, educator and multi-Grammy Award nominee Bobby Sanabria appears on a bandstand, what's guaranteed is a bona fide happening"an experie…
by Adam Cohen . . . My 16-year-old has been going to theater for almost ten years. The show that most resonated with her was The Prom"a musical ostensibly about bullying . . . and finding th…
Barbara Bleier and Austin Pendleton are back by popular demand to Sing Steve and Oscar on June 26 and July 10 @ 7 pm at Don't Tell Mama with Christopher Denny, Music Direction, the show dire…
By Ron Fassler . . . The title of this review alone offers three reasons that should send anyone rushing to see dance of the highest order: 1) American Ballet Theatre (ABT) being one of …
By Andrew Poretz . . . PERFORMANCE PHOTOS " COCKTAIL EVENT PHOTOS On Sunday June 12, the stars converged at the Cutting Room to honor the great Lee Roy Reams with a Lifetime Achievement …
By Andrew Poretz . . . Robin Lyon was a not-quite-major Broadway performer in the 1980s and early 1990s. A talented singer, dancer and actress, she had multiple credits in such shows as A Ch…
By Ron Fassler . . . I've always imagined what it must have been like to attend a dinner party at Ira Gershwin's house in Beverly Hills back in the day when, late in the evening, his fri…
By Marilyn Lester . . . Sometime during the Yuan Dynasty, playwright Guan Hanqing (1241-1320) wrote Gan Tian Dong Di Dou E Yuan"translated as: The Injustice to Dou E that Touched Heaven and …
By Yani Perez . . . Eva Luna, written by Caridad Svich with direction by EstefanÃa Fadul, is based on Isabel Allende's novel by the same title. This production, presented by Repert…
And Complete List of Tony Nominees and Winners " " " By Ron Fassler " our man at the Tonys . . . Last evening the 75th Annual Tony Awards were handed out at Radio City Music Hall, and it was…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Don't get me wrong. I love Sarah Silverman, the comedian. She's the very model of a modern Mrs. Maisel, using potty-mouthed wit to shoot darts at contemporary s…
By Andrew Poretz . . . "Dying is easy.Comedy is hard"" so go the supposed last words of Edmund Kean. In Out of the Eclipse, Canadian-born performer Joanna Gleason speaks and sings of family,…
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In an effort to build bigger business, West Africans battle with Chinese fighter pilots in Sky of Darkness. With convincing and upsetting spoken text and a seri…
By Yani Perez . . . Quince"written and co-created by Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez; directed and co-created by Ellpetha Tsivicos"is a lively, interactive birthday party, a feel-good show that…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . I have a bone to pick, but first the play: Mr. Parker, originally produced by Island City Stage, Fort Lauderdale, in 2018. Michael McKeever (Daniel's Husband) has w…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . What does it mean to be a gay black male in America today? It's a question that's been pondered on many New York stages this past season, in shows ranging fro…
