Just a few steps away from the buzz and excitement of Times Square is Theatre Row’s Kirk Theatre, a newly renovated Off-Broadway stage, situated on 42nd street between 9th and 10th avenue. Presently it has given home to John Gregor‘s musical comedy With Glee. I attended the first preview of this delightful Prospect Theater Company success on July 10th and I was truly amazed to see such energy and excitement exhuming from the stage. Nowadays it is not rare to find talent amongst Off-Broadway shows. However, it is substantially rare when you see that talent put to its full potential. I found that extremely the case in With Glee’s fun cast of seven.
Surely freshman year in high school is no picnic, especially when you’re a teenage boy being sent to a boarding school in a another state. [click to continue…]
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Enclosed within 59E59 Theaters is Theater B, unpretentious and intimate in design. Walking in you find foreign writings across the wall, an intricate device flowing on a mildly moving set. Less than a hundred were there between Madison and Park Avenue to witness a history come alive. We were all subjected to a magnificent true story behind a 1486 Spanish Inquisition file, which was almost stolen from the Spanish National Archives. The interrogation of the detained Israeli professor opens up the forbidden desires awakened by the binding of eyes, the tragic love between a Spanish Priest, Andrés González, and his Jewish wife, Isabel. Andres’s confession of a double life reveals a testing of his conviction amid overwhelming intolerance and persecution.
The cast of Conviction is comprised of three actors, Ami Dayan (Professor Tal, Andrés González), Kevin Hart (Director of The National Archives in Spain, Juan de Salamanca), and Catharine Pilafas (Isabel). [click to continue…]
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Picture two renowned men ranting on all night, attempting to oust one another, while drowning out the neighboring dissonance of “tins banging”. Would it make a difference if these men were “Ragtime King” Scott Joplin and “The Dean of American Songwriters” Irving Berlin? There is something about having the great masters of American music together, on one stage, retelling the beginnings and consequences of their extraordinary statures. The Roundabout Theatre presents Tin Pan Alley Rag, a production of two parallels intertwining at a cross point only to have an “unlikely jam session” and a night of uplifting memories ensue. This show reimagines Joplin and Berlin stripped of their exterior layers, as only men, no “The” before them and no “genius” after. [click to continue…]
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