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

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Peace for Mary Frances a new play that tries to do too much

Peace for Mary Frances - Well acted, nicely staged but flawed new play from the New Group
Peace for Mary  Frances

The Beast in the Jungle-- Henry James updated and dancng magnificently


TheBeast
The Beast in the Jungle - The sublime cast of dancers headed by two stars from Broadway and the classical Ballet World— Tony Yazbek and Irina Dvorovenko— beautifully evokes the glad, sad and and scary elements of this half a century spanning love story. . . Read More

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Caryl Churchill's early play-- timely but stil challenging to followl

Light Shining
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire - Caryl Churchill's early play is back at New York Theatre WorkshopRead More

The latest Long Day's Journey Into Night now at BAM


Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill<br>
Long Day's Journey into Night - The Bristol Old Vic has brought New York a creditable staging of O'Neill's masterpiece. Lesley Manville is giving a performance that's damn near definitive. How fitting that these British Tyrones have made the long journey from southwest England to the city of the great playwright's birth. Read More

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Friday, May 11, 2018

Dance Nation-- a play about but not really for young teens


Dance Nation
Dance Nation - No play on the New York boards is fiercer or more original than Clare Barron's satire and unusually cast tween-aged group portrait Read M

Friday, May 4, 2018

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Summer and Smoke--a fine Alma but excessively bare staging



Summer And Smoke
Summer And Smoke - Even in a disappointing production like this, Williams's language still gives Marin Ireland, this Alma, an opportunity to break our hearts. . . Read More