Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new theater productions on and off-Broadway and elsewhere. However, I'll continue to sound off here with my take on Live and Onscreen Entertainment. As for Curtainup's extensive content since 1996-- it's all sill available at www.curtainup.com

Friday, September 13, 2013

2 new off-Browaday reviews, both worth seeing


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The Old Friends
The Old Friends - Horton Foote's many fans are in for quite a surprise. These old friends and their various relatives could easily be mistaken as kin to the greedy unhappy people in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. But not to worry. This is not copy-cat Williams or a misconceived departure from Foote's more gentle world, but two hours well spent . . . Read More
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Fetch Clay, Make Man
Fetch Clay, Make Man - It has been a three-year journey from the McCarter Theater in Princeton to the New York Theater Workshop for Will Powers play Fetch Clay, Make Man, about the unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary bonding between boxing champion Muhammad Ali and former Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. Read More
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