1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
by JK Clarke Prior to attending First Maria's production of Hamlet at Teatro CÃrculo in the East Village, I had mistakenly fallen under the impression that I would be…
by JK Clarke Many years ago, I saw Tammy Faye Starlite perform with her group, the Mike Hunt Band (don’t say that name out loud) on New Year's Eve at the La…
by JK Clarke Imagine a scenario in which a politician starts to gain too much popularity even though he proposes turning the present governmental system on its ea…
Last night, Tuesday March 8, Disaster struck Broadway . . . that is to say Disaster! the musical, which opened at the Nederlander Theater. The production, writte…
Monday night The New Group honored Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Ellen Roth with the 2016 Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theater at their Annual Gala, held at Tribeca…
by JK Clarke There's a lot going on in Danai Gurira's new play, Familiar, which opened Thursday at Playwrights Horizons. So much so that it's…
by JK Clarke Sometimes theater should make you uncomfortable. And it's usually those uncomfortable plays that have the deepest impact and make you think most seriously t…
 by JK Clarke I have always maintained that a low-budget, community theater production of a Shakespeare play, if done properly, can be as entertaining …
by JK Clarke It can be argued that the theatergoers who get most excited about a staging of Shakespeare's little-known and (until recently) seldom performed"and perhaps …
by Joe Regan Jr. The Shakespearean Jazz Show is made up of a group of jazz musicians and singers who got together when they were students at Emerson College and t…
by Rudy Gerson Paul Auster's 1985 novel City of Glass is a creative inquiry into identity, validity, and language's inability to represent either. Th…
by JK Clarke There's plenty to poke fun at when it comes to the 1970s and 80s in American culture. From fashion to music to television to mustaches, what w…
Photos by JK Clarke Monday night, February 23, Theater for the New City held its 13th annual gala. This year’s event, held at the esteemed National Arts Club on Gr…
Broadway couple Andy Karl and Orfeh played the Appel Room in Lincoln Center's American Songbook by Linda Amiel Burns Powerhouse performers, Andy Karl a…
by Joe Regan Jr. Dana Lorge, the host of a monthly recurring series featuring guest cabaret performers, suffered a pneum…
by JK Clarke Once upon a time a lot of people were fascinated by the Manson Family. Charles Manson and his followers epitomized, for many, the breakdown of the 19…
by JK Clarke One of the many things makes Twelfth Night"arguably Shakespeare's best comedy"so special is that it's hard to screw it up. It's a fast-flowing, humorous pla…
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by Marilyn Lester Part cabaret and part awards show, the first annual International Cabaret Festival (ICF) kicked off at The Metropolitan Room with a gala featuri…
by Brian Scott Lipton The "dysfunctional family gets together for a holiday" play (or movie), no matter how brilliant or funny, usually descends into unbel…
by Joe Regan Jr. Broadway Inspirational Voices is a Grammy nominated multi-racial gospel choir whose mission is to give hope, inspiration, and changed live…
Tap dance icon and star of Maurice Hines’ Tappin’ Thru Life (currently playing at New World Stages) was honored with an iconic caricature portrait yesterday afternoon at S…
by Jordan Cohen On Monday, February 15, I saw Love Is Crazy, Justin Vivian Bond's Valentine's Day Show at Joe's Pub. Mx. Bond, a beloved staple of the downtown, q…
by Paulanne Simmons Jimmie Bush Jr. may be twenty-five years old, but his musical heart belongs in the 1960s and 1970s. Those were the times when artists s…
by Samuel L. Leiter In 2008, Barack Obama ran for the presidency on a promise of hope and change, a promise whose results continue to be hotly debated. One…
