by: Sandi Durell We do love our mothers, but when they suffocate and control to the degree that the scheming Mrs. Phelps (Dale Carman) demonstrates, one might get a sudden urge to grab her and shake the living daylights out of...
Read MoreBy: Sandi Durell In 1948, in a farm house in the woods in Westport, Ct., a group of Russian émigrés are gathered to make and celebrate art. Richard Nelson’s latest entry at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, has...
Read Moreby: Sandi Durell Don’t let the title mislead you. There’s really very little funny in Jenny Schwartz’ surreal new play “Somewhere Fun” (God’s Ear, 2008, Vineyard). You think that because you get some chuckles in Act...
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On the Red Carpet and in the Media Room with Sandi Durell Standing on the Red Carpet for 2...
Read Moreby: Sandi Durell Aging can be sleepy, laden with images of the past, or a jolt of jaunty expectations. It is 1951 as we find ourselves in a dreary old estate in Wiltshire, England, where three aging members of the...
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