Cabaret
Laura Benanti at the Minetta Lane Theater
NEW YORK – Laura Benanti at the Minetta Lane Theater, astonishing, beautiful and funny!
Tulis McCall
NEW YORK – Laura Benanti at the Minetta Lane Theater, astonishing, beautiful and funny!
NEW YORK – Gene’s Italian Restaurant, for the perfect Chicken Toscano, a feast for the eyes and delightful culinary experience.
NEW YORK -Still at the Daryl Roth Theatre, a story that is romantic, relevant and personal.
NEW YORK – Sally and Tom at the Public Theater, a story packing a wallop at the intersection of horrible and splendid.
NEW YORK – Grief Hotel, dramaturgy of precision and grace brought it to poetic fruition
NEW YORK – Dead Outlaw at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre is a deceptive cuss of a show with grace and style.
The Animal Kingdom by Ruby Thomas, now at the Connelly Theatre, is a pressure cooker of a play that glides by in a flash – Sam (Uly Schlesinger) has recently tried to kill himself and is now in an institution of some sort for his own safety and may be in a place where he might find some surcease.
Royo delivered a resounding performance, transforming into over 12 characters experiencing the stages of alcoholism and its effects on each character’s interaction with himself and others. At times, it’s hard to tell who Man is, as his toxic masculinity dominates and elevates with the abuse of alcohol.
The cast, setting, dramatization, and well-crafted script evoked yearning, hope, sadness, heartache, and disillusionment. Sharp’s adaptation explored family, love, and social status themes as Catherine navigated whether to follow her heart or obey her father’s wishes. The audience was inexorably drawn into a story conveyed through a 90-minute production in a seemingly virtual moment.
Existentialism seemed to dominate undertones dealing with the passage of time, mechanically repeating the practices of our predecessors, and our insignificance in the vastness of the universe and history.
