1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
     By JK Clarke  Tennessee Williams' very accomodating production notes in The Glass Menagerie"a play for which he coined the term "memory play""encourages a freedo…
    By JK Clarke  I've always contended"as have many others who care about such things"that while editing or abridging Shakespeare's plays for the purpose of a production…
       By JK Clarke  Coriolanus is one of many Shakespeare plays that can be played for its uncanny prescience in modern times, though it doesn't always have …
      By JK Clarke  Fish-out-of-water incarceration stories are nothing new. From the wrongfully imprisoned (Hugo's Les Misérables) to the belatedly, unexpectedl…
    By Samuel L. Leiter  Gordon Dahlquist's [Veil Widow Conspiracy] is a dramatically veiled construct embedding three stories, one within the other, like a play-within-a…
  NEW YORK. June 9, 2019. The 73rd Annual Tony Awards are taking place right now at Radio City Music Hall, broadcast on CBS, hosted by James Corden. Leading the nominations was …
   By JK Clarke  As the preeminent American playwright of the late-20th century, Sam Shepard drew on life experiences to create his best plays, works of realism that portraye…
    The 2019 Actor's Fund Gala took place Monday evening at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, honoring The Actors Fund will celebrate Tony Award-winning playwright and ac…
Photos: Shoshana Medney  NEW YORK. APRIL 30, 2019. The 2019 Tony Award Nominations were announced this morning at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center by Beb…
    By JK Clarke  If you've seen the latest Cohen Brothers film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix), you'd hardly expect that the actor playing the title character, T…
     By Samuel L. Leiter  The official diplomatic phrase for the events behind this play are the "1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda."  One of modern histor…
     by Samuel L. Leiter  This week, I watched the great Broadway librettist and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II get hammered twice. The first was Daniel Fish's radical…
     By Matt Smith  "I've been so many places in my life and time / I've sung a lot of songs and I've made some bad rhymes / I've acted out my life on stages / With t…
     By Ron Fassler  According to the program notes, The Mad Ones are "a New York City-based company that creates ensemble-driven work through the ongoing collaborati…
     By Brian Scott Lipton  If you're a theatergoer who truly subscribes to the philosophy of "if it's not on the page, it's not on the stage" or "the play's the thin…
     by Carol Rocamora  It's a play with an outrageous premise"and Suzan-Lori Parks wants it that way. As a playwright who has been writing about race and American hi…
     By Tania Fisher  Now playing at The Theater for the New City, Shareholder Value is set against the backdrop of the fiscal crisis of 2008, and is loosely based on…
     by Carol Di Tosti  Happiness is a sleight of mind. When it is founded on lies, duplicities and secrets, it will never last, even though one may desperately cling…
      by Samuel L. Leiter  A few months ago, I asked my friend Richard, house manager of Second Stage's Helen Hayes Theater, what was next on the venue's agenda. …
    by Carol Rocamora  Everything about Peaches is shocking"from the pink color of her big hair to her shiny pink alligator suit to the stream of profanities that spew fr…
     By Joseph Pisano  Despite an initial Broadway run that was, to say the least, severely abridged, few theatrical works have as culturally schismatic a performance…
    By Samuel L. Leiter  Off-Broadway's Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, artistic director) loves to take risks by staging infrequently seen, even obscure classics (okay, …
     By Ron Fassler  Sondheim: Wordplay at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on Saturday night was genuine truth in advertising. For surely there has been no Broadway lyricis…
    by JK Clarke  It can be argued that William Shakespeare's much loved Roman Republic play Julius Caesar is actually two plays in one: the first half being a tragedy ve…
    By Myra Chanin  The abundant twists and turns in most narrative arcs ultimately boil down to a series of themes. For example, there's "boy meets girl," as in Cinderel…
