Italians are fascinated by Trump. Tuscany is very liberal, but even my more conservative friends here and in Sicily and Milan cannot understand why he continually changes his policies on a daily basis.
Marv enjoyed a long and fruitful career as a psychologist and professor at Kingsborough Community College; he was a specialist in family therapy and a published author.
Even if you think you know this play well, even if you love the film with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, you owe it to yourself to get to Bennington to see this best realization ever of this play.
Amanda Quaid as Lauren moves seductively in the most natural fashion. There is nothing covert in her performance. A child would notice her deliberate seductiveness and yet there is a peculiar subtlety to it all.
John Douglas Thompson is brilliant as Ira Aldridge, the Black 19th century American Shakespearean actor ... Director Daniela Varon has created a dynamic theatrical piece built around a fascinating script.
Joan of Arc. Mother Theresa. Gandhi. Anne Frank. With no money, no voice, and in the face of indomitable forces, some were able to rise above the face of brutal means and oppression and change the course of human history and awareness forever.
This is an intellectual exercise disguised as a play. The two speak incessantly in almost exclusively internal monologues. Yasmina Reza is a very interesting writer and here she has the help of two very talented actors to bring life to her characters.
This new play is perhaps the finest new play of the year, certainly of the summer thus far, and probably just the best of the season. It is being given a superb production with a cast that could not be improved upon in a physical presentation that outstrips everything before it and all that's yet to come.
Director Jenn Thompson has given Neil Simon his due and shown a new audience what it takes to finally qualify for a Pulitzer Prize when one is a sitcom writer with a long string of hits and near-misses.
A comic book that comes alive on the stage, "Tarzana" is a collaboration with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jason Grote ("Mad Men") who was commissioned by Radiohole to write text for the work.
If you can't get a ticket you should complain to the management. There aren't that many really interesting plays around and you shouldn't have to miss this one.
It has been 37 years since the play made its impact; give it back what has now been denied and let the play go on for another 37 years without this sort of fold back of time and appreciation.
Altogether this is as close to perfection as you get in the theater. A very good play with extremely good actors under the exacting direction of a very talented man of the stage.
