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, November 26, 2017

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

My review of Harry Clarke, atriumph for Billy Crudup & David Cale

Harry Clarke Harry Clarke -Though I generally prefer plays calling for more than one actor on stage, I'm always ready to be smitten. All it takes is a really unique concept and a superb soloist— case in point, playwright-songwriter David Cale's Harry Clarke, starring Billy Crudup. Read More

Thursday, November 9, 2017

my review of Office Hour


Office Hour
Office Hour - Julia Cho's play at the Public is painfully, perhaps too much so, timely Read More

My review of Ayad Akhatar's new play



Junk
Junk - If Shakespeare were still with us and writing history plays about kings and those seeking to usurp them, he'd not be looking to Holinshed's Chronicles for plot ideas. Instead, like Ayad Akhtar, he'd subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times to find his dramatic personae