1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Berlin, the late 1920s, the Jazz Age, the rise of the Nazis, and the world of entertainers and cabarets, old friends. Such is the background of"sorry, no, not t…
By Marilyn Lester . . . In 1925, playwright Barry Connor wrote a fractious drawing-room comedy in The Patsy, whose Broadway success led to a 1928 film (a huge hit and now a classic) starring…
By Ron Fassler . . . With its origins in Greek epic poetry, the clever new musical Penelope: Or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, is using the advertising slogan: "Greece is the Word."…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Lorna Luft is a survivor. She survived losing her mother, Judy Garland, as a teenager (never mind the burdens of being an iconic celebrity's daughter) and eventual…
By Ron Fassler . . . When last we tuned in, Seth Rudetsky's Broadway was scheduled for April 19, 2019. Canceled for reasons we know all too well, his special guest for an intimate evenin…
Sunday night, April 3, fans and first-nighters flocked to the Barrymore Theatre for the opening night of Paradise Square on Broadway, the hot new Broadway musical set in mid-19th century New…
by Carol di Tosti . . . When money and wealth become more important than the lives of others, that is the time to write a play with powerful, sonorous music. Oh, not to uplift the CEOs w…
By JK Clarke . . . The ability to express emotion through song is one of the things that makes us"humans"such a remarkable species. We often, in the fog of commercialism, forget that at the …
By JK Clarke . . . Long-form standup comedy is often compelling because it allows us to get to know the comic better, more intimately than short form and one-liner standup sets. And as is th…
By Bart Greenberg . . . The fabulous Tina Burner returned to New York City as part of her national tour celebrating the release of her new recording, "Mix Queen: A Relationship Mixtape," wit…
By Tania Fisher . . . Award winning playwright, Joseph Krawczyk provides yet another beguiling piece of theater in this real-life-events-inspired alluring play. Krawczyk's leads the way …
By Andrew Poretz . . . "When we study the past, we prevent history from repeating itself. What are the ghosts of Weimar past warning us of?" That's the thesis presented in Ghosts of Weim…
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In I Agree to the Terms, we travel back to the exhilarating computer explosion of the 1980s. Gurus love this era, before email and before the Internet, when we …
By Adam Cohen . . . Mile Square Theatre is a jewel tucked into a corner of Hoboken, NJ"just a short ferry or bus ride from midtown. They present compelling, thoughtful, well-executed pro…
By Carol Rocamora . . . "If you don't think this play is funny, you are missing a lot of my play." So writes playwright Dominique Morisseau in the program notes of Confederates, her high…
By Bart Greenberg . . . A Touch of the Poet is one of Eugene O'Neill's problematic plays. Written in the 1940s, but not produced until 1958, after his death. It was planned to be the first o…
By Ron Fassler . . . If a play is plotless and devoid of characters, is it a play? It's a question you might ponder while watching Claudia Rankine's Help, now in a limited engagement at The …
By Ron Fassler . . . This past Sunday afternoon was the closing performance of the brief, limited run of Huang Ruo and Basil Twist's Book of Mountains & Seas. Both puppet theater and cho…
By Barton Greenberg . . . Celebrating their 60th season, the historic La Mama Experimental Theater Club, in association with Spiderwoman Theater, in partnership with Aanmitaagzi and Loose Ch…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A playwright needs to have a lot of confidence if he's going to give his play a name like Garbageman, the title of Emmy-nominated Keith Huff's (A Steady Rain) new p…
By Melissa Griegel . . . At the beginning of the pandemic, Ian McQueen, Tori Vitucci, Hannah Hall, and Elizabeth Fahsbender wanted a way to showcase diverse artists that were now quarantined…
By Brian Scott Lipton In a recent interview explaining his decision to significantly rework the 1997 musical The Life for its current presentation at New York City Center Encores, the multi-…
By Carole di Tosti The delightful musical by Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book), The Baker's Wife, has never been produced on Broadway. Based on the titular 1938 Fre…
By Melissa Griegel . . . The popular supper club 54 Below is celebrating ten years of it becoming Feinstein's/54 Below with a series of anniversary concerts. On March 6, for both the 7 PM sh…
By Brian Scott Lipton "It was a moment. A marvelous moment," two characters sing at the end of Anyone Can Whistle, and that sentiment perfectly summed up the feeling many of the 2,500 people…
