October 27, 2004 – November 3, 2004

Wednesday 27th

Pigs are flying, hell is freezing over, dogs and cats are living harmoniously together, and the Yankees are awaiting reassignment from the Boss …. We only have three words to say: Let’s go, Knicks! Now who here blows up like a Thanksgiving float after eating a rogue peanut? If you are one of Read More

The King Everyman of an America Abandoned

August Wilson’s King Hedley II is a mighty and messy and frightening achievement of the highest order. Its power resides in its ecstatic visions and poetry that pour from the gut of a disenfranchised people, in its mad percussion of pain and despair, in its gentle good humor and chronicles of deaths foretold.

It frightens Read More

A Star Is Born! A West Side Theater’s Reborn

Once in a long while, we see a young, virtually unknown performer onstage and we’re made to feel truly alive in their extraordinary presence. They literally radiate. We fall in love with their raw talent, because it is still in the making, still on the more innocent cusp of great things. But it is unmistakably Read More