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Arts New Jersey: So Much Hardship to Convey

WESTWARD, HO! The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is presenting “The Grapes of Wrath,” with Wendy Barrie-Wilson, above left, as Ma Joad, and Christian Conn as Tom Joad. So why does the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s new production sometimes ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Little

In War-Torn Liberia, Women Making Do

IF you walked into a room full of sex slaves, you might not expect to find role models. Unless you’ve already seen Danai Gurira’s new drama, “Eclipsed.” “Eclipsed,” now at the Yale Repertory Theater, is set in Liberia near the end of that country’s ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Danai Gurira,  Yale Repertory Theater,  Liesl Tommy,  New York University,  Ricky Gervais

Theater Review | 'Pantaleón y las Visitadoras': Officer Gets an Order He Can’t Refuse

Soldiers and prostitutes? Nothing new. But when Capt. Pantaleón Pantoja of the Peruvian Army gets involved, he approaches the project with military efficiency. Pantoja is the protagonist in Repertorio Español’s rousing, sexy and surprisingly sweet ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mario Vargas Llosa,  Barack Obama

Lou Jacobi, Critically Acclaimed Actor of Film and Stage, Dies at 95

Lou Jacobi, the mustachioed, scene-stealing Canadian-born actor and comedian who made a film and stage career playing comic ethnic characters but was lauded for serious dramatic roles as well, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. Lou ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Anne Frank,  Shelley Winters,  New York Times Company,  Dudley Moore,  Barry Levinson

Theater Review | New Jersey: Film Noir and Western, Onstage Together

As a person who still dreams of making it big with a killer piece of fiction, I have a theory about Gino DiIorio’s forcefully absorbing “Dead Ringer,” which is having its world premiere courtesy of the New Jersey Repertory Company. Maybe Mr. DiIorio, ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Irvin

Theater Review: Recalling a Journey Through the Holocaust and Then Some

A friend once invited Rose to try LSD. No, thanks, she said; she already knew what it would be like. The disconnect with reality, she was sure, would feel like the day in 1943 that the Warsaw ghetto went up in flames. Returning from work that night, ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Olympia Dukakis

Theater Review | New Jersey: The Evolution of Grief, Slow but Certain

It took me 89 minutes to figure out what Arthur Laurents was trying to say in “Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are” at the George Street Playhouse. Sadly, the play is 90 minutes long. PREMIERE Alison Fraser, left, and Shirley Knight in a scene from ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Arthur Laurents,  Shirley Knight,  Helen Hunt,  John Carter,  Ellen DeGeneres

Theater Review | 'Circle Mirror Transformation': Quick There, Actor, Make Like a Tree

What a clever idea, setting a play in a “creative drama” class. Annie Baker’s absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny “Circle Mirror Transformation,” presented by Playwrights Horizons, shows us people doing deliberately wacky things in a dance studio. ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

New Musicals, From Fledgling to Full-Fledged

Here we are at St. Edward’s Academy. There’s a cocky rich kid who’s just coasting; an affluent guy whose mother and father have taken hands-on parenting to new heights; and a new, not-rich boy who sings, appropriately enough, “I can’t believe I’m here.” ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Lennon,  Johnny Depp,  Dalai Lama

Theater Review: Breathing New Life Into an Oft-Told Tale

Let’s get right to the point. “Fly” blew me away. The history of the Tuskegee Airmen is inspiring enough on its own. But Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan’s retelling of their story, as produced by the Crossroads Theater Company in New Brunswick, is a ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: HBO,  Savion Glover,  Louis Gossett, Jr.

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