A 14-year-old Chinese girl chronicles her career as a 19th century exotic U.S. museum attraction in this shimmering, finely performed and theatrical play.
Author: Darryl Reilly
The Unamerican
Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and Hedda Hopper are wonderfully recreated in this historical fantasia about the 1950’s Hollywood Blacklist.
This Beautiful Future
A German soldier and a French woman’s teenage romance in Occupied France is depicted in this haunting play that’s been given an entrancing production.
Sugar Ray
Reginald L. Wilson delivers a powerhouse performance as the great American Black fighter in this accomplished solo play that’s performed in a boxing ring.
Ziel Dance Theater: “Freedom ≠ Britney”
The Britney Spears conservatorship case is the clever source material for this exhilarating dance piece performed by a charismatic mixed-gender trio.
Ziel Dance Theater: “And There it Was”
Croatian dancer Tomislav Nevistic’s self-choreographed beautiful piece is a mediation on the pandemic, it was performed in NYC and is now on YouTube.
Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon
Rich Little hilariously, thoughtfully and vigorously portrays Richard Nixon in this wild Watergate fantasia, while accompanied by an expert ensemble.
Edward Morehouse (1924-2021)
He was a longtime acting teacher at HB Studio whom I had a negative opinion of but that recently softened after watching an interview with him.
My Circle in the Square
“Romeo and Juliet” at this unique theater was the first Broadway show I saw. Rex Harrison, George C. Scott and Brian Bedford were also memorable there.
Jules Feiffer’s Grown Ups
This 1980’s obscure and brief-running dark work is among my favorite plays. I later met the author’s wife, which inspired Rupert Pupkin-style delusions.