1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Barbra Streisand was a relatively unknown 21-year-old singer in 1964 when she exploded into Broadway superstardom as Manhattan-born vaudeville comedienne Fania …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Before this year, there were only two plays that won a Pulitzer Prize before being produced in New York, The Kentucky Cycle in 1992 and Anna in the Tropics in 2…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Faith and hope can often be in short supply these days, whether in Twin Falls, Idaho, the setting of Samuel D. Hunter's delicate, beautifully acted two-hander…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 1992, comedian Billy Crystal made his movie directing debut with Mr. Saturday Night, which he co-wrote and in which he also starred as Buddy Young, Jr., a wa…
Following its big opening night May 1 and continuing critical acclaim, ¡Americano! the Musical has been drawing boldface names from the show business community as well as government of…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." This now-classic line from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke could be projected above the stage for the entirety…
By Adam Cohen . . . While we all strive to obtain and surpass our aspirations, few of us are afforded the opportunity . . . even if it's a terrible goal. Success, failure. Living or dyin…
By Adam Cohen . . . Jason Robert Brown, composer, Tony winner, held an amazing court on Friday, May 13 at Feinstein's/54 Below. Backed by a scintillatingly tight band, he offered the aud…
By Carol Rocamora . . . "F***ing business!" Who better than David Mamet can sum up the essence of American society and its values in only two words and make them sound so eloquent!? As a…
By Carole di Tosti . . . The power of The Vagrant Trilogy, Mona Mansour's incredible work, currently at the Public Theater until May 15, lies in the questions it raises. These concern th…
By Marilyn Lester . . . Ken Page is easy to love. And loved he is"very much, judging by a sold-out Feinstein's/54 Below on May 4. The room was packed by friends and fans, including a you…
By Andrew Poretz . . . The Canadian-born Peter Calo is one of those super-talented musicians who, while he's had a successful career both as a solo artist and as a collaborator with the …
The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors, Dale Badway, President, has announced the 2022 Honorees for the Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Bro…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The rock music blasts, the curtain rises, and the race (I mean show) is on at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. We're watching Selina Fillinger's political farce, POT…
By Carol Rocamora . . . What's the first thing you think of when you hear the name "Cyrano?" You beat me to it! I heard you say it before I could write it. The NOSE, of course. That legendar…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Doctors who become playwrights are not quite as rare a phenomenon as you might think. Famous examples are Anton Chekhov, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schnitzler, …
By JK Clarke . . . Does Sam Gold hate Shakespeare? I found myself wondering that as I watched his latest deconstructed, minimalist hatchet job as director of one of the Bard's most belov…
By Carole di Tosti . . . Thorton Wilder's Pulitizer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth"currently in revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater"presents the fate of the human ra…
By Marilyn Lester . . . What does it mean to be an American?"that's a question we've been grappling with since 1776. It's also the question the new musical, ¡Americano!, a true story, tri…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A Strange Loop, the raucously profane, satirical, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy, which premiered Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2019, is now jubila…
By JK Clarke . . . Twenty five years ago (1997) Paula Vogel's critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive took on the very complicated subject of intra-family …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . When it comes to sucking you into the vortex of a funny, violence-steeped dramatic world, few playwrights can do it with quite the mesmerizing theatrical panache of…
By Carole di Tosti . . . For an uplifting journey into the realms of fantasy and delight, see the titular Broadway production of The Little Prince, based on the classic 1943 novella by A…
By Ron Fassler . . . The memory play is a fairly common staple of American drama, especially ones with a grown narrator stepping in and out as they participate in their own past (Tenness…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Allan Harris, one of the coolest cool cat performers you'll ever see, played two sets at Dizzy's Club on Columbus Circle after a road tour with eight other musicia…
