67 stories by "Joe Clarke"
With Special Appearances by Lucie Arnaz, Walter Bobbie, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Linda Lavin, Roberta Maxwell, Marilyn Maye, Billy Stritch, and Holland Taylor the Abingdon …
by JK Clarke One of the great things about a play with a universally robust theme or storyline is its malleability, its ability to...
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by JK Clarke Anyone who has spent time in a NYC dive bar, particularly in Greenwich Village, recognizes Terri Girvin. She's a brassy, no-nonsense young...
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A touching and uplifting story of survival under the worst conditions. by Joel Benjamin Dramatizing Holocaust events is notoriously difficult…
by JK Clarke Have you had enough of the campaigning and politics of the 2016 Presidential election? It seems like every time you turn around there's...
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by JK Clarke Prior to opening night of Barbecue (now playing at The Public Theater through November 1) the play's publicity team sent out a note asking...
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by JK Clarke The upside to Elevator Repair Service's (ERS) latest production, Fondly, Collette Richland (written by Sibyl Kempson and playing at the New York Theatre Wor…
by JK Clarke Somewhere in the middle of his opening night set at the Café Carlyle on Tuesday night, Buster Poindexter made a crack about...
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Composer, lyricist and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man responsible for both In the Heights and current Broadway sensation Hamilton has been chosen as one of 24 recipie…
Photos by JK Clarke The Plaza Hotel Ballroom was filled to capacity on Monday evening September 28th with theater and film royalty at The American Theat…
by JK Clarke Watching an Eric Tucker-directed Shakespeare play, one tends to realize two things: first, that the players have such a comprehensive command of the.…
Interview by Cooper Lawrence Depending on when you caught him, David Johansen is either a proto-punk god of the 70s, thrusting the New York Dolls into legendary status,...
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by JK Clarke If Devo's Booji Boy character decided to cross-dress he might look something like Dina Martina. But it's doubtful he'd be as riotously funny....
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by JK Clarke Your average theatergoer rarely has the occasion for an in-depth study of a single scene in a particular play the way an actor, director...
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In late August Theater PIzzazz's JK Clarke traveled west for a brief visit to Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the longest…
by JK Clarke Deconstructing an art form can often lead to interesting and beautiful new styles, Â movements or individual works of art. Picasso's foray into cubism pro…
Tuesday, August 18, 2015, following the opening night production, the cast of Primary Stages and Ensemble Studio Theater /Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project production t…
by Marcina Zaccaria Is the New York International Fringe Festival more than an actor's gym? Â In O' Save Us, St. Sophia a group of students from the BFA program...
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by JK Clarke The ongoing revival and embrace of Shakespeare’s later plays, those generally referred to as the “Romances,” has led to the inevita…
by JK Clarke Nevermind the outstanding acting. Nevermind the extraordinary singing. Nevermind the flawless movement, writing, rapping, set, story, direction, costumes and chore…
Tony award winner Donna McKechnie appeared at the East 86th Street Barnes & Noble on Monday, August 10 to sign copies of her new CD Same Place:...
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by Myra Chanin Pimm's Mission, a new American thriller by Christopher Stetson Boal, opens in a bar with a bang. The bang is an explosion that has destroyed the...
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by Myra Chanin On July 10 an extraordinary event"Ricky Ritzel's Broadway"took place at Don't Tell Mama (DTM), the Nightlife Mall-cum-Cabaret Cineplex currently celebrating its …
An auspicious inaugural season for a brilliantly re-purposed Queens venue. by Joel Benjamin  August 7, 2015. Steven Reineke and his New York Pops ventured out of Carnegie Ha…
Interview by Marilyn Lester That popular axiom of real estate, "location, location, location," may well translate to theater as "timing, timing, timing." Certainl…
