1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Pete Blatchford. Wicked, Immoral, Utterly Bad! An Illust…
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! is unadulterated hysteria. Stop reading now and book your tickets. Escola brilliantly subverts history and creates an indelible vie…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Summertime, and the pickings are measly. At least that's the case with two new Off-Broadway musicals I had the displeasure of seeing over the pas…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Chris Jones. Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of …
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . From Here, a disposable musical brought to New York's Signature Center by the Renaissance Theatre Company of Orlando, Florida, is the kind of produ…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Ben Hecht. A Child of the Century. (New Haven and Lo…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Norman Mathews " The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in M…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A ferocious flock of Furies is unleashed in Lucy Kirkwood's wild new play The Welkin. They seek vengeance upon the world"and each other"for the fate …
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . We learn that he was bitten by a spider at the age of six. We learn that she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of twelve. We learn that, growing up…
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . Just like many skeptics refused to believe that the enormous "ship of dreams" known as Titanic could ever actually be built, an eyebrow or two wa…
Cabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Ricky Ritzel is an exceptionally inventive, highly motivated, knowledgeable theatrical anthropologist, ready to rummage through mounds of musical comedy…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . SITI Company: THIS IS NOT A HANDBOOK (n.p.: SITI Company…
Theater Review by Yani Perez . . . . The Public Theater's Mobile Unit is back this season, presenting the bilingual musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, adapt…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every once in a while, a small, forgotten play resurfaces, making a great and joyful noise. Such is the case with the beautiful revival of Home, Samm…
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, gave "Illinoise," "Merrily We Roll Along," "Oh, Mary!" and "Stereophonic" its top honors in the group's second annual Dorian Theater Award…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, is a sensitively crafted, verbally rich, but dramatically challenged and overlong (two ho…
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . "Everybody Loves Somebody," (Irving Taylor/Ken Lane) sung by Dean Martin, plays as the lights dim on Theatrical Outfit's magnificent production of Edw…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In what was meant to be a 100th birthday party for Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick this past weekend at the 92nd Street Y, what took place instead was somethi…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Mary S. Ryzuk. The Circle Repertory Company: The First F…
Theater Review by By Ron Fassler . . . . As someone who can quickly and fondly call up memories of the Broadway production of Once, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2012, a tinge o…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Marshall W. Mason, The Transcendent Years: Circle Repert…
Theater Review by Yani Perez . . . . Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern is a high-energy, interactive show brimming with fun for both fans of the game and newcomers alike. …
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Perhaps the most admired fairytale musical ever, Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, might hesitate before calling itself perfect, so you must take …
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A picture is worth a thousand words"so goes the saying It can also change our way of looking at history . . . and ourselves. Such is the powe…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Bryan Cranston, A Life in Parts (New York: Scribner's, 2…
