The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture currently hosts Little Rock, a play based on the true story of the “The Little Rock Nine”, the first black students known to attend their city’s formerly segregated Little Rock Central High School three years after the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ruled separating students based on race was unconstitutional. [Read more…] about Theater Review: ‘Little Rock’ Shines at the Sheen Center
Review: Brad Birch’s New Play ‘Tremor’ is Shaking Foundations at 59E59
59E59 Theaters’ latest Brits Off Broadway offering brings Tremor, a new play by Brad Birch, recipient of the Harold Pinter Commission. [Read more…] about Review: Brad Birch’s New Play ‘Tremor’ is Shaking Foundations at 59E59
New York Deaf Theatre Celebrates its 38th Season With ‘Maple and Vine’
I was born clinically deaf. My mother, a nurse and homemaker, needed a solution to protect my hearing aids, transistors and wires from my tiny, inquisitive hands. She designed a little blue jacket for me to wear on which she sewed two small, strategically placed pockets onto the back of my shoulders; into these she put the transistors, and, after crossing the wires behind my neck so I couldn’t reach them, she topped off my towhead with a matching blue “bonnet” to cover my ears, again to keep the hearing aids out of reach from my wandering fingers. There’s not a picture of me before the age of two where I’m not wearing this dandy little outfit. [Read more…] about New York Deaf Theatre Celebrates its 38th Season With ‘Maple and Vine’
Review: York Theatre Company’s ‘Unexpected Joy’ is Unexpectedly Disappointing
The York Theatre Company continues its 2017-2018 season with the New York premier of a new musical Unexpected Joy, with book and lyrics by Tony-nominated Bill Russell (Side Show) and music by Janet Hood (Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens). [Read more…] about Review: York Theatre Company’s ‘Unexpected Joy’ is Unexpectedly Disappointing
Review: Ain Gordon’s ‘Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous’
Obie Winner Ain Gordon’s play 217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous gives its spectacular NYC premiere in the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Jerome Robbins Theater. [Read more…] about Review: Ain Gordon’s ‘Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous’
New York Pops ‘Part of His World: The Songs of Alan Menken’ Sparkles
The New York Pops 35th Birthday Gala, Part of His World: The Songs of Alan Menken sparkled for its one-night only, sold out performance at the famed Carnegie Hall. [Read more…] about New York Pops ‘Part of His World: The Songs of Alan Menken’ Sparkles
Review: Patch of Blue Theater Company’s ‘We Live By The Sea’
59E59 Theaters’ latest Brits Off Broadway offering brings We Live By The Sea to the colonies, after sold out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Beijing, and the Arts Theatre, London West End. [Read more…] about Review: Patch of Blue Theater Company’s ‘We Live By The Sea’
Review: Wheelhouse Theater Company’s ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’
The unassuming NoHo Gene Frankel Theatre currently plays host to Wheelhouse Theater Company’s production of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s 1970 play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June. [Read more…] about Review: Wheelhouse Theater Company’s ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’