Review: “Stiff” at the Barrow Group Theatre
Anyone who’s ever been in show business before knows that there’s nothing quite as demoralizing as receiving a negative review from the press. As someone who has been on both sides of the artist/critic dynamic, I know all too well the wide-ranging impact that a review can have – for better or for worse – on one’s career and self-esteem. In Jeff Swearingen’s new play Stiff – currently being produced by Fun House Theatre and Film – a bad review is exactly what a new theatrical production in 1950s NYC is about to be in store for.
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Off-Broadway Review: “A Walk with Mr. Heifetz”
Although “A Walk with Mr. Heifetz is more docudrama than drama, Mr. Inverne chooses not to document the complexities of the Jewish migration into Palestine under British rule, complexities which continue to exist in the present. Obviously, this was not the purpose of his play; however, this omission leaves the audience with only a partial understanding of the development of the State of Israel and the continued absence of a Palestinian State.
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Off-Broadway Review: “Party Face” at New York City Center Stage II
Unfortunately this party is too predictable and plays more like a simple sitcom sans substance or stability. Basically everything goes wrong. The script undermines the important relevant core issue of survival and diminishes significant topics such as infidelity, abuse, alcoholism and mental illness with contrived absurd humor.
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Off-Broadway Review: “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns” at SoHo Playhouse
The production currently playing at SoHo Playhouse entitled “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns” is a self-absorbed, ostentatious, and highly opinionated rant penned by Drew Droege who also holds court on stage for the eighty-minute overwrought outburst.
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Off-Broadway Review: "In the Body of the World"
This year is the 20th anniversary of Eve Ensler's groundbreaking V-Day Campaign--a movement founded to increase awareness and raise money for anti-violence organizations using Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" as a creative catalyst for change.
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