Reopening Night, a documentary movie by filmmaker Rudy Valdez, gives an up close examination of the Public Theater’s 2021 summer reopening in New York City’s Central Park, subsequent to being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
It never ceases to amaze me that writers can be so adept at delving into a human psyche to reveal the complicated self-preservation mechanisms that come into play. They “hold a […]
With customary professionalism, Simon Levy directs a flawless production of Lucy Kirkwood’s play, The Children. First presented in England in 2016, current events seemed to have surpassed the original message with which […]
In Poor Clare, Playwright Chiara Atik weaves the story of a thirteenth-century saint affiliated with St. Francis into a sharply clever expose of our own times. Despite an opening delay, the […]
Remember the old phrase, “Is it live or is it memorex”? Now onstage at the Echo in Atwater Village, playwright D.G. Watson has crafted an interactive performance piece that puts differences […]
Documentarian Rachel Boynton has crafted an informational film titled Civil War (Or, Who Do WeThink We Are). A starting point for this probing documentary (now airing on cable television’s MSNBC) is that the American […]
