Archive for the ‘Theatre’ Category
Other Than We: Show Review by Jo Mispel
December 2nd, 2019
‘Other Than We’ is a very satisfying cli-fi (Climate-fiction) experience. It is a playful but powerful meditation on some of the more urgent philosophical questions we need to ask as we approach ecological catastrophe. Not just how did we as a species bring this crisis upon our biosphere, our home, ...
HOOKED ON HAPPINESS: Show Review by Jo Mispel
November 21st, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29380" align="alignleft" width="300"] (photo by Russ Roland)[/caption] THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is an amazing East Village cultural center that has been running since 1971 and has won 43 Obies and a Pulitzer Prize. It is a wonderful Off-Off-Broadway space, publicly funded and forever giving back to the community ...
SLAVA’S SNOWSHOW: Broadway Review by Hanna Singer
November 21st, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29377" align="alignleft" width="300"] (photo credit: Veronique Vial)[/caption] Your perception of clowns and mimes will change after seeing this show! I had the opportunity to take my daughter to the opening night of SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW on November 13th at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. All I knew about it, was that ...
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
November 11th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29353" align="alignleft" width="215"] (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg)[/caption] If you are a theatre fan, run, don't walk, to Gerard Alessandrini’s FORBIDDEN BROADWAY that has returned to New York after a five-year hiatus. Ardent fans know what they are in for....but if you have yet to experience, now's your chance to take ...
FEAR: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
November 6th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29334" align="alignleft" width="300"] Enrico Colantoni, Alexander Garfin, and Obi Abili (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel)[/caption] Testosterone and tempers fly amongst a plumber, college professor, and frightened 15 year old, who we meet in a rickety shed as they (almost literally) bat around the disturbing disappearance of a neighborhood eight year old ...
The Hope Hypothesis: Show Review by Jo Mispel
November 4th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29316" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Photo by Beowulf Sheenan)[/caption] As soon as one sits down and sees the dull, gray bureaucratic office space that is the stage set for The Voyage Theater Company’s new play The Hope Hypothesis, it is hard not to start preempting a story about the dehumanizing realities that ...
ALL HALLOWS EVE: Show Review by Alyson Treglia
October 29th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29304" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Jennifer Barnhart as Witch in All Hallows Eve - photo by Richard Termine)[/caption] My husband and I have always had a love for Halloween even prior to having our two kids. We plotted our costumes months before, whether purchasing them as a couple costume, or buying supplies ...
Monsoon Season: Show Review by Jo Mispel
October 29th, 2019
Phoenix, Arizona, a dusty desert city with a sometimes spectacular Monsoon season. A season that brings moist tropical air to the dry desert, creating dramatic, and potentially dangerous, weather conditions. Monsoon Season is also the provocative title of the new production of Lizzie Vieh’s award-winning play, directed by Kristin McCarthy ...
The 31st Annual Festival of New Musicals by Robin Gorman Newman
October 26th, 2019
This was my first experience attending the Festival of New Musicals, and both as a theatre producer and musicals enthusiast, it was a thrill to have the opportunity to see new musicals in the works and to hear from creative teams. It takes a village to bring a show to ...
Meet Cat Miller, Later Mom, Playwright and Director, THE HOPE HYPOTHESIS
October 17th, 2019
Can you share with us your road to parenthood? It was an unexpected one. I always wanted to have kids. When I was 30, my first marriage ended, and I remember being terrified I had missed my chance. Then, just about three years later, my step-kids came into my life, ...
