Wine, Women and Songs Winesday: The Wine Tasting Musical It’s estimated that there are over 5 million people who belong to book clubs and 80% of the participants are women. Some of the clubs are organized and have a paid leader while others are more informal. Some organize themes around their selections and include activities, […]
Molly Sweeney
Brian Friel’s play “Molly Sweeney” directed by Charlotte Moore is staged in the simplest form imaginable. The three major characters are seated in chairs on stage. They speak directly to the audience and never to one another. The staging works particularly well in the intimate Irish Repertory Theatre in the final installment of its season […]
The Lonely Few
Can two extremely talented female performers overcome their history of unhappy relationships and learn to love again? Zoe Sarnak and Rachel Bonds’s rock musical, The Lonely Few, is a lesbian romance about moving on from the past and taking a chance to live your own life. Lila (the incredible Lauren Patten) is stuck in a […]
Home
Cephus Miles never wanted to leave his home in Crossroads, North Carolina. The central figure of the beautiful revival of Samm – Art Williams’s “Home” presented at Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, Cephus loves the farm where his grandpa and uncle raised him. His life changes considerably when they both die, and his girlfriend Pattie Mae […]
N/A
I had a stressful week and was really hoping to see a lighthearted play, certainly not one about politics. However, “N/A,” the new play by Mario Correa, was next in the queue. Correa comes to the theater with a background in politics having been a longtime aide to Congresswoman Constance A. Morella. For his subjects, […]
Stereophonic
Imagine you are the fly on the wall in a recording studio. One of your favorite groups is scheduled to record its latest album. It’s the 1970’s, and the group has an album on The Billboard charts. That’s what it’s like sitting in the audience at “Stereophonic,” the new play by David Adjmi. Although the […]
The Old Man and The Pool
photo by Emilio Madrid Cancer, type two diabetes, death. Hardly the fodder for comedy – Yet In the hands of Mike Birbiglia, this serious subject matter becomes hysterical in his latest one-man show, “The Old Man and The Pool.” As with his other shows, Birbiglia mines his own life and illnesses for comedy, smiling all […]
Laura Benanti & Seth Rudetsky in Concert
November 10, 2022 TheIsland360 Review by Elyse Trevers It’s a treat when a Tony Award winning Broadway star comes to Long Island. Such was the case this past weekend when Laura Benanti appeared with “Seth Speaks,” Sirius Radio host Seth Rudetsky at The Madison Theatre at Molloy University. Well-known to television audiences from her roles […]
Funny Girl
June 16, 2022 TheIsland360 Good theater is more than creativity, talent and imagination-it’s also about chemistry. Between the performers and between performer and audience. If there’s good chemistry between actors, then the audience will join right in. If the audience doesn’t ‘buy’ the relationships onstage, then the show will not work. That’s what happened with […]
As You Like It
Delacorte Theater September 11, 2022 TheIsland360 Before the performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, director Laurie Woolery asked how many in the audience had never seen a Shakespearean play before. Many hands went up. I just want to let those folks know that the version of the […]
Standing Room Only 