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 25, 2015

Re-imagining a 1930 sex operation: Sommerfugl at 4th St.Theater


Sommerfugl
Sommerfugl - American culture may have reached its transgender moment but, at the 4th Street Theater it's evident that some New Yorkers (ordinarily a blasé lot) are squeamish about the science of sex reassignment. Read More

Friday, September 18, 2015

Monday, September 14, 2015

Another chance to see Richard Maxwell's Isolde

Isolde Isolde - Richard Maxwell's play revisited at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center .

Friday, September 11, 2015

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Monday, September 7, 2015

People, Places and things--a potent look at addiction



 People, Places and Things
People, Places and Things Duncan Macmillan's involving play about addiction and rehab has a brilliant performance from Denise Gough . . . . Read More

Whorl Inside a Loop-- yet another drama to take us inside the prison world



 Whorl Inside a Loop
Whorl Inside a Loop - covers immense territory; but neither the script or the production penetrates the sparkling surface that the authors and directors have contrived. . . . Rea