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A Musical Version of Shakespeare’s Comedy? We Love It! Oh, what a night!  Although somewhat overcast with rain and thunderstorms in the forecast, the mood onstage for Twelfth Night in Central Park at The Delacorte Theater couldn’t have been sunnier! Twelfth Night is a typical Shakespearean comedy with disguises, mistaken identities, and frustrated love.  Viola […]

‘Carmen Jones’ puts an updated spin on a classic opera Photos by Joan Marcus By QNS Staff / editorial@queenscourier.com / Tuesday, July 24, 2018 / 2:00 PM BY ELYSE TREVERS Most people recognize the strains of the “Toreador Song” and “Habanera” from Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen.” Perhaps, like me, you don’t totally understand the lyrics […]

Take a step back from desperate times and see the play ‘Desperate Measures’ Photos by Carol Rosegg By QNS Staff / editorial@queenscourier.com / Saturday, June 23, 2018 / 2:00 PM BY ELYSE TREVERS A beautiful young woman being coerced into sex by an unscrupulous powerful older man — it sounds like a story ripped from recent […]

LaChanze, left, is Diva Donna, Ariana DeBose is Disco Donna and Storm Lever is Duckling Donna in “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.” Photo Credit: Kevin Berne What? Another jukebox musical? On the surface, singer-songwriter Donna Summer is an ideal subject for a jukebox musical. She sold more than 140 million records worldwide during her career, […]

editorial@queenscourier.com Photo: Shutterstock BY ELYSE TREVERS An actor is a storyteller, using gestures and facial expressions to convey the ideas of the writer. In his one-man show, “John Lithgow: Stories by Heart,” Lithgow delights the audience with his considerable charms and talents as he “reads” two of the stories that his father, actor-director Arthur Lithgow, […]

editorial@queenscourier.com Photos: Joan Marcus BY ELYSE TREVERS Remember the cliques in high school? The nerds. The jocks, the popular kids. Remember the angst of needing to belong? Most of us were glad to graduate, vowing never to return. Watching Tina Fey’s new musical “Mean Girls”, based on her movie of the same name, suddenly felt […]

editorial@queenscourier.com Photo by Matthew Murphy BY ELYSE TREVERS I’m sworn to secrecy. So is the rest of the audience who sees “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Part One and Part Two.” The blockbuster, award-winning hit from England is Book Eight of the famous Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. But this is what I […]

editorial@queenscourier.com Photo by Benoit Leroux BY ELYSE TREVERS Despite what some might say, circuses are for adults, especially modern circuses. Only adults can appreciate the practice, skill and danger that goes into performing complex stunts.  At “Volta,” the newest offering by Cirque du Soleil, as kids sit wide-eyed, every act is punctuated by gasps of oohs […]

Photo credit: Joan Marcus Who was Saint Joan? Subject of many books, movies and plays, The Maid, as she was sometimes called, has been a fascinating historical figure. Defying her gender and station, she was able to rally the French troops and lead them to victory over the British soldiers, claiming to hear the voice of […]

I would pay to see any production that features 87-year-old actress Lois Smith, even if she were only reading the telephone book. In her latest role, Smith plays 90-year-old Mary Frances who, having lived a long good life, is now ready to die, surrounded by her family.  The representatives from hospice explain the medical process: […]