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Austen’s Story of Lady Susan Translated by Whit Stillman into Film
Love & Friendship is a pretty bit of film. Generally, it is the British — with a few notable exceptions — who make fabulous renderings of Jane Austen novels as feature films and television...
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Who is the Genius?
Genius is the rather ambiguous title of a film about Maxwell Perkins, who was the editor to the works of several American literary geniuses of the first half of the 20th century. It’s based on the...
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Hoping a Limited Run Reappears with Joe Morton as Dick Gregory
Luckily for me, I caught Joe Morton in “Turn Me Loose” during its last week at The Westside Theatre. “Turn Me Loose” is “a play about comic genius Dick Gregory.” Based on how much I laughed for the...
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Pride and Petulance: A Lesser-Known Shakespeare Play on War and Women
It was a perfect summer evening at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Hot but not stifling. Clear, with enough of a breeze to keep most of the bugs at bay. And a brilliant production on the stage...
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Kings of War_Shakespeare in Dutch at the BAM Opera House
Kings of War is my second Shakespearean mash-up by Ivo van Hove (who directed Toneelgroep Amsterdam in performance of the adaptation by Bart van den Eynde and Peter van Kraaij). The first (Roman...
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Theatre as Warning: Red Bull Theater’s Coriolanus at the Barrow Street Theatre
The Red Bull Theater’s production of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus at the Barrow Street Theatre is ensemble playing at its best, directed by Michael Sexton. The small and tight-knit ensemble played...
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Goldoni's "The Servant of Two Masters" at TFANA
The Samuel H. Scripps mainstage at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center is a wonderfully designed performance space: it is multiple theatres in one, so flexible one may not recognize it from one season to...
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Goldoni's "The Servant of Two Masters" at TFANA
The Samuel H. Scripps mainstage at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center is a wonderfully designed performance space: it is multiple theatres in one, so flexible one may not recognize it from one season to...
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The Elements of "Orange Julius"
Last Wednesday night, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater & Page 73 presented the New York Premiere of “Orange Julius” by Basil Kreimendahlas directed by Dustin Wills.At the end of 90 minutes of fine...
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What I Did Those Missing Months of 2017...
It has been brought to my attention that I’ve not posted anything — about cats or gardens or theatre, nada — in months. Apologies. I’m here, my cats are here, my garden is growing, and I’ve seen a...
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Back in the Pre-USSR, Natasha Pierre and plenty more
In May, I entered a Russian samovar or the interior of the Imperial Theatre on West 45th Street. Onstage and everywhere, the Broadway production of Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 has...
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Julius Caesar Meets Fox News
In early June, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the Delacorte Theater (The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park) was fun but imperfect, although not for any of the reasons Fox News and their...
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June was busting out all over…and I went to the theatre.
In June I went back to Brooklyn for Cirkus Cirkor at the BAM Opera House. It was not our first time enjoying this wonderful Swedish troupe, nor will it be the last. The Cirkus excels at death...
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The Final Four of a Half Year of Theatregoing
Lincoln Center, Friday night June 20, 2017. Photo Credit Me.June ended for me with Osloby J.T. Rogers at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. The play was briskly intellectual, cleverly...
View ArticleThe Two-Play Weekend
MEASURE FOR MEASUREis a problematical play. Modern audiences have difficulty comprehending Isabella’s choices, all of the characters are unlikable, and in the final moments, the Duke may be as low and...
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Time Dragging at the Roundabout
J.B. Priestly’sAn Inspector Calls has tension and mystery, causing anxiety.J.B. Priestly’sTime and the Conways has not.The Roundabout’s production of Time and the Conways at the American Airlines...
View ArticleThe Woods for the Trees....
The other night I saw a children’s show at Classic Stage Company called The Stowaway, a clever compilation of Shakespeare’s words and phrases in a storyline pulling a little from here, a little from...
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Midnight at the Oasis, or Bewitching Omar Sharif
The Band’s Visit, lovingly directed by the wonderful David Cromer, is a beautiful piece of theatre with delicious music and characters in a handsomely constructed evening.Based on the Israeli film of...
View ArticleAn Enchanting Evening of Song and Dance at City Center
Last Spring I bought tickets to a "City Center Encore” of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner’s Brigadoon. City Center typically does “concert” stagings — that is minimal staging, some costuming, broad...
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A Seasonal Treat Until Epiphany
Fiasco Theater is playing Shakespeare’s great comedy Twelfth Night at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street) until Saturday January 6, 2018. Run don’t walk to catch this exciting, funny,...
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The Magic of Music at the Belasco
Music is mysterious. It pulls emotions out of us, it urges us to remember for good or ill, pleasure or pain. It riles us up, it calms us down. Among other neurologists, Oliver Sachs particularly has...
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What will we tell the Children?
Last month, I saw the Friday night performance of the closing weekend of The Children at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club. It was a limited run from London’s...
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Molly is Musing .... a 2018 update
2018 has been a tough year for Molly so far. January brought a death, as January is wont to do. My eldest cousin — firstborn of my generation as well as first to die. He comes to mind frequently....
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Martin McDonagh in a Hanging Mood at the Atlantic Theater Company
Hangmen made me thirsty, especially after the shock of the first scene. I had read scenic designer Anna Fleischle’s comments on the challenge of this three-setting play, first produced at the Royal...
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Two at Second Stage
In the past couple months, I’ve seen two plays at the Second Stage Theater Company: Mary Page Marlowe andStraight White Men. Both were interesting, by and large well-acted, yet neither fully...
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