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

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Friday, January 27, 2017

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Tell Hector I Miss Him--well acted but too disconnected mosaic at Atlantic Theater Stage 2


Tell Hector I Miss Him
Tell Hector I Miss Him - Paola Lazaro's mosaic of scenes involving characters with little in common beyond being fellow denizens of a few blocks around a convenience store in San Juan, Puerto

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Winter Solstice intrigued our London critc




Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice Roland Schimmelpfennig's play looks at sinister history intruding on modern life in a play named after the darkest day of the year. . . Read More -

Made in China-- an engaging new puppet musical


Made In China
Made In China - an engaging new puppet musical . Read More

Orange Julus-- memory play with echoes of The glass menagere but not its emotional power

orangejulius17 Orange Julius - Like so many wistful, small-cast memory plays about dysfunctional families, Basil Kreimendahl's play co-produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Page 73, reflects the influence of The Glass Menagerie. Re

Friday, January 20, 2017

Thursday, January 19, 2017

At last: the fine producttion Jitney deserves



Jitney
Jitney - August Wilson's early play play finally gets the Broadway production it deserves Read More

Albatross--a new take on the Rime of the Ancent Mariner


Albatross
Albatross - With its multitude of props, ever-busy stage business, and dynamic projections, this production from the Poets' Theatre of Boston seems determined at all costs to rescue The Rime of the Ancient Mariner from generations of uninspired high-school teaching

Monday, January 16, 2017

Martin McDonagh's Beauty Queen of Lenane now has daughter turned into her mother



The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Druid Theatre Company engrossing revival of Martin McDonagh's horror tale with humor makes a stop in Brooklyn to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the play's 1996 premiere, Read More

Friday, January 13, 2017

Monday, January 9, 2017

Cate Blanchett lends star sizzle to The Present



Preset
The Present - The Sydney Theater Company's modern adaptation of Chekhov's first play, with a large ensemble headed by Cate Blanchett and Richard RoxburghRead More