by Carol Rocamora “Let’s put on a play!” How many times have we heard those words uttered in our line of business – right?! But rarely have they delivered the gleeful entertainment offered by The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse’s screwball satire that opened...
Bernhardt/Hamlet
by Carol Rocamora EXTENDED THRU NOVEMBER 18! Move over, Medea. Sorry, Joan. Later, Nora. A new female protagonist has blazed onto the New York stage, and you’d better get out of her way. Her name is Sarah Bernhardt, her mission is to play Hamlet, and nothing will stop...
Teenage Dick . . . The Play
by JK Clarke There are a handful of phrases that are likely to get the attention of the FBI’s algorithms and probably should be avoided in your emails or Google searches. Things like “I’ve got a bomb,” “would you like to buy some heroin” or, say, the title...
Present Laughter
by Michael Bracken Is it the time or the timing? It’s both, of course, but I have to think brisker pacing in the current revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter at the St. James Theatre could have saved Coward’s hoary farce from itself, at least in part. Starring...
Hand to God – Dark and Irreverent
Review by Sandi Durell Things haven’t changed much from the off Broadway productions of “Hand to God” for the foul-mouthed hand puppet Tyrone, the alter-ego of the angry, dysfunctional and shy Jason (Steven Boyer) in the little Texas town of Cypress where he...
