Category: Theater

  • What are the chances that on a given day you can see performances by American theater masters influenced by the Japanese arts? On Sunday afternoon, a little known, experimental work by Tennessee Williams, “The Day a Man Died,” was performed at East Hampton's Ross School. Forget the romantic reveries of “Glass Menagerie,” “Cat on a…

  • Last night, Williams's “Sweet Bird of Youth” had a one-night performance in Provincetown at Norman Mailer's house starring legendary actress Sylvia Miles as the Princess. This must be Tennessee's year. In East Hampton,Guild Hall, Tennessee Williams's “Glass Menagerie” opened for its 3 week run of a stunning production directed by Harris Yulin featuring Amy Irving…

  • “There's food, water, and stories,” said Cedering Fox, producer of Los Angeles based Word Theater on Saturday night at Guild Hall in East Hampton at a program featuring a dozen actors reading short stories. “I believe that storytelling is a primary need.” The daughter of the late poet/artist Civ Cedering whose Sagaponack home was the…

  • One line from “Twelfth Night” seemed prescient: “The rain it raineth every day” got a big laugh this week at The Public Theater's outdoor Delacorte venue, this viewer's second venture through Central Park to the idyllic staging of Shakespeare's comedy. Rained out one night, threatened another, such is the magic of Shakespeare in the Park.…

  • Playwright Joe Pintauro will have to stop hoping that critics forget he was a Catholic priest, especially when it comes to his excellent play “Cathedral” in current production at Manhattan Theater Source. Built upon the blueprint of an earlier work, “The Dead Boy,” “Cathedral” takes place in an entirely Catholic setting, limning a territory similar…

  • The Millienium Hotel in the theater district was in a state of controlled pandemonium a day after Tony nominations were announced: Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli, Geoffrey Rush, Allison Janney were escorted about by publicists for photographers and press. By all accounts, this has been a stunning season on Broadway, with more shows than in previous…