Archive for the ‘Theatre’ Category
Pip’s Island – A bedazzling theatre experience! Review by Jo Mispel
June 13th, 2019
The two musketeers and I headed off last week to experience the much lauded interactive theater show ‘Pip’s Island’, currently showing at Times Square. Previously a sold out ‘pop up’ show in Chelsea in 2016, this is the show’s second well-deserved run, and considering the incredible artistry and unique storytelling, ...
Cirque du Soleil LUZIA: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
May 24th, 2019
Cinco de Mayo proved to be the perfect day to take in the latest Cirque du Soleil, LUZIA, celebrating the faces and sounds of Mexico in a truly delightful, two hour production (with an intermission), that is taking stage in a tent adjacent to Citi Field now through June 9th. I ...
Around the World in 80 Days: Show Review by Lainie Gutterman
May 13th, 2019
There has always been something about the call of the unknown. Published in 1873, Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel written by French writer Jules Verne. I admit that my family has not yet had the opportunity to travel around the globe as much as I would ...
Broadway’s Brightest Stars – New York Times Talk: by Robin Gorman Newman
May 8th, 2019
What a special night this was! Michael Paulson is a Theatre Reporter for the New York Times who I had the opportunity to meet when I was a producer on Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. I recall he was a nice guy, insightful writer and a Comet fan, ...
ACCIDENTALLY BRAVE: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
April 21st, 2019
It is nearly impossible, as both a wife and mom, to wrap my head around the shock and betrayal....along with a boatload of other sentiments (and expletives)....that a woman would experience and potentially spew out when her marriage is truly tested due to the unthinkable. Maddie Corman, who wrote and stars ...
June is the First Fall: Show Review by Debbie Gray Bloom
April 7th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_28529" align="alignleft" width="300"] (photo by Maria Baranov)[/caption] Overheard in the Ladies’ Room at the New Ohio Theatre,"There are a lot of Asian people here." With almost no hesitation and a quick debate as to whether or not to mind my own business I told them, “Well you know the play ...
THE WHITE DEVIL: Show Review by Debby Gray Bloom
April 4th, 2019
I attend every show prepared to do two things. First, suspend my disbelief and two, totally enjoy the performance. Unfortunately, I was totally unprepared for The White Devil, produced by The Red Bull Theatre at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street. When a Playbill includes a full page insert with a synopsis ...
VILNA: Show Review by Rochelle Jewell Shapiro
April 2nd, 2019
Ira Fuchs must have been called by the voices of the dead to write his impassioned play, VILNA. In 1974, after college graduation, he wrote a few plays. One was put on at the YWHA on Eighth Avenue, the other at Playwright Horizons. Then he left the theater to become ...
“Chick Flick: The Musical” Show Review by Andrea Santo Felcone
March 20th, 2019
Last Saturday, I grabbed a friend and we headed over to the lovely Westside Theatre, to see the Off-Broadway production of “Chick Flick: The Musical”. A show--you guessed it--about those well-known romantic, often funny, sometimes sappy, cinematic gems. Those movies that have helped many of us regroup from a bad ...
ACTUALLY, WE’RE F**KED: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
March 15th, 2019
ACTUALLY, WE’RE F**KED, a new play by Matt Williams, is receiving its world-premiere production at Cherry Lane Theatre. From defecation to periods to circumcision to religion....the show opens with a steady stream of highly opinionated millennial banter as two 30-something couples gather to eat, drink...and not quite be merry. The world ...
