387 stories from Usher Nonsense
We I can tell you one thing for certain " I wish I did. This is a show that you can go see for the set alone. But after the real owners showed up you would feel a bit like Goldilocks and h…
This is a charming and upsetting play. It has the flavor of Our Town with a little Alfred Hitchcock tossed in. Small town America with a little ground glass stuck inside your shoe.Harry (T…
For a play that has no beginning, middle or end " this one ain't bad at all. The Lyons patriarch is in the hospital. Ben Lyons (Dick Latessa) is dying of cancer. He doesn't look or act li…
This is a wildly uneven and often moving essay on motherhood. In the interest of honesty " I don't have children. I am a woman but never a mother. (99.44 % of the people who will review th…
After seeing this play you might want to unscrew your head and tap it gently on the sidewalk in order to let all the loose bits fall out. There will be a lot of them because you will have c…
To say this is an excellent production does not do it justice. Hal Brooks and his extraordinary cast have done exactly what they should " they have gotten out of the way of the text and let…
Well, if I had been wearing socks, they would have been blown off because this is one sweet cast. They know who they are and understand their craft. What a pleasure to watch.Jeff Talbott k…
Somewhere over on Christopher Street, tucked away in the tiny IRT theatre, two flights up in the old Post Office Building, you can hear the mournful cry of a loon. You can also hear the scr…
Here is a time saver: get your butt over to The River Crosses Rivers II. You will not be sorry. This is an embarrassment of riches that you do not want to miss. There was an article in th…
Praise the Lord and pass the green beans. There is some seriously good theatre happening in New York, and this show is one. And once again the combination of good writing, directing and a…
I love this theatre company. The Playwrights Realm chooses plays that come out of left field and works it so that they land true. In this case, however, there was still a lot of left-field…
Mike McAlary was passionate about his work as a journalist. He was so passionate that he once stole a book from the Columbia University Library that contained articles on all the Pulitzer P…
There have been many a time when Richard Nelson's writing has made me want to jump into oncoming traffic. Happily this was not one of them.Sweet and Sad is the story of the Apple family, p…
Itmar Moses writes plays that seem to say, "Look. It is a fact that we humans are using about 1/10th of our brain. This is a play that will help you to use a bit more." In this excellent …
There is The Circus of Barnum and Bailey. And the Circus of the Sun. And now, for your enjoyment, ladies and gents, I give you the Circus of the Vegetables and a bit of Fruit. Cirque de L�…
The normally excellent Elevator Repair Service does not go all the way to the top floor with this production.Based on Hemingway's novel, this is the story of a few Thirty-Somethings who dri…
To the exalted company of Abbott and Costello, Nichols and May, Stiller and Meara " now please welcome the duo of Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder. These two are a team that hits it out of …
Okay " this one sent me to the dictionary. Temporal is an adjective that denotes something of worldly vs. Spiritual affairs, or a relationship to time. In the brain the temporal lobe, loca…
This is a misguided labor of love. That's because it is a story about passion that has been parsed into facts.Passion is seductive by its nature. It doesn't matter what the subject. I rec…
An action on stage can say so much. Watching Julie Halston (Wendy) in the opening moments of this play arrange the pillows on the couch in a row, left to right standing on corners, in a con…
This is August, the season of hard-to-get restaurant reservations, our own Fringe Festival, and little gems tucked away in small theatres.Such a gem is The Pillow Book. This is a play that…
This is a fascinating play that goes in a bunch of surprising directions. What begins as another tale of a man taking advantage of a woman because it is easier than working for a living, be…
Claptrap. I just looked up this word: "absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas" ORIGIN mid 18th cent. (denoting something designed to elicit applause): from clap + trap . That about sums up th…
Elaine Del Valle seems like a sincere, friendly person who is very funny when she lapses into Spanglish and talks about her family. She has navigated the terrain from Brownsville to an apar…
Maria Callas was elegant, and frightened, and fluid. She chose her looks and her moves with care, from what I can gather. She was always watching herself while she watched others. In list…
