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IndieGoGo Helps Revival Film Find Signs of Life
By Doug Strassler The Revival was a carefully nuanced, eye-opening play that had a too-short run on the New York stage back in 2010. Playwright Samuel Brett Williams fashioned a sensitive and honest...
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Legacy of the Working Actor: An Interview with Kevin Spirtas
Say the name Kevin Spirtas and you’ll get a response from a small but knowing breed. The actor, best known for his seven-and-a-half year stint as Dr. Craig Wesley on Days of Our Lives, is a favorite...
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A Midsummer Night’s Theater Roundup
What’s the best way to beat the (ungodly) summer heat? Catching a show in an air-conditioned theater, of course! Below is a sampling of three diverse works alighting the New York stage. The Castle...
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Mother Knows Best
Burton makes for one killer spy in Hapgood Credit: T. Charles Erickson Tom Stoppard is, rather inarguably, the leading playwright of the intellectual frontier, but even with stabs at physics and...
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Rainbow High
Ben Rimalower’s solo star tribute is his own star turn By Doug Strassler Perched in the upstairs performance space at West Village staple The Duplex is Patti Issues, an ongoing solo show featuring...
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Let‘s Spend the Night Together
Blood Play marks an auspicious Williamstown bow for Debate Society By Doug Strassler Courtesy WTF Publicity You can’t blame Bev (Hannah Bos) and Morty (Michael Cyril Creighton), newly arrived to...
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Daddy Issues
Niels Arestrup is one bad dad in You Will Be My Son By Doug Strassler Courtesy Cohen Media Group There is something so calming about French films – the lush countryside vistas, the way men wear...
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Maulik Pancholy is Wide Awake
Talented actor embraces challenging roles It’s possible you’ll recognize actor Maulik Pancholy from his scene-stealing turn in the early seasons of Weeds as cowardly, closeted pot dealer Sanjay Patel....
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The Music Mensch
Soul Doctor could benefit from some, yes, surgery The key, I have found, to a successful jukebox musical – and by successful, I mean financially lucrative and long-running – is existing audience...
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At 10 AM on Friday, August 16, a 42-year-old man was the last to leave his home on West 81st Street before his family went away for the weekend. As they returned home at 11 AM on August 19, the...
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The Great Escape
Lucy Thurber’s Hill Town Plays mark a necessary theatrical destination Ever watch Terms of Endearment back-to-back with its soul-crushing follow-up, The Evening Star? One of the takeaways from the...
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The Road to Israel
Zaytoun strains for peace Let’s get it out of the way: Zaytoun certainly means well. Eran Riklis’s film, about the unlikely bond forged between a young Palestinian orphan and an Israeli pilot in...
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The Hill Town Women
An Interview with the Five Leads from The Hill Town Plays The Hill Town Plays marks the debut of Theatre: Village, produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, spotlighting the work of downtown...
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A Tale of Two Pattis
Robin de Jesus takes over local Patti Issues while creator Ben Rimalower takes it overseas By Doug Strassler Photo by Larry Hamilton Ben Rimalower earned raves – in addition to a Bistro and Mac Award –...
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Standards, Met and Unmet
A Tchaikovsky masterpiece at the Met and a classic movie Eugene Onegin In a fall preview last month, I made a point about Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor: He is mercurial. Sometimes he’s up,...
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A Virtual Jack of All Trades
Veteran performer Jack Noseworthy reinvents himself in Two Point Oh In Jeffrey Jackson’s new play, Two Point Oh, billionaire software impresario Elliot Leeds (Jack Noseworthy) dies when his private jet...
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Off-Broadway Roundup
A look at the varied Off-Broadway offerings playing on stages around town By Doug Strassler Jericho Jack Canfora’s Jericho straddles two distinct styles of theatre. It belongs to that ever-growing...
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The Musical Merry-Go-Round of Life
Broken Circle Breakdown overstrains for dramatic effect We first meet Elise (Veerle Baetens) and her husband, Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) in a dramatic moment, tending to their sweet, sick daughter,...
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The Price of Innocence
Roundabout’s Winslow Boy revival earns a positive verdict By Doug Strassler Those unfamiliar with The Winslow Boy, British playwright Terence Rattigan’s seminal offering about innocence and...
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Foaming at the Mouth for Film
A Q&A with Junction’s Tony Glazer and Summer Crockett Moore By Doug Strassler In Junction, the new film written and directed by Tony Glazer, a group of strangers converge to rob a house and help...
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