CALL ME IZZY by Jamie Wax Directed by Sarna Lapine Starring Jean Smart Studio 54 Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer A problem with traveling your selected roads through contemporary-slash-popular culture…never particularly reaching a destination…but having reached a certain age…is that the territory starts to repeat itself. As with the active backgrounds in those limited […]
ROLLING THUNDER Book by Bryce Hallett Arrangements and Orchestrations by Chong Lim & Sonny Paladino Directed by Kenneth Ferrone New World Stages Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer Continuing on from my review of Call Me Izzy (consider reading its intro first, if you haven’t yet), the second show I want to examine in the
GENE & GILDA by Cary Gitter Directed by Joe Brancato Starring Jonathan Randall Silver and Jordan Kai Bernett 59E59 Reviewed by David Spencer I’m not so sure about Gene & Gilda. A celebrity bio play by Cary Gitter, it posits Gene Wilder (Jonathan Randall Silver) being interviewed for television by a late-night host (voice of
THE WEIR by Conor McPherson Directed by Ciaran O’Reilley Irish Repertory Theatre Reviewed by David Spencer Taking place in “a small bar in a rural part of Ireland,” The Weir features a few regulars, feisty old codger Jack (Dan Butler) and diffident, middle-aged Jim (John Keating), tended to by the wry bartender Brendan (Johnny Hopkins).
HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL (2025) Book, Music and Lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe Based on the screenplay by Daniel Waters Directed by Andy Fickman New World Stages Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer Heathers, though off-Broadway, was the Broadway-scale sleeper of its debut in 2014. Upon its return—and to the same venue—it’s still quite effective.
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