George Bernard Shaw Explodes Middle Class Morality by Barry David Horwitz Bernard Shaw is back, and he’s alive and hilarious at Aurora Theatre. Aurora’s revival of Shaw’s unique blend of brilliant comic characters and sharp social critiques in “Widowers’ Houses” put us on the edge of our seats for three wonderful acts. Superb direction…
Tim Pinckney Enlists Millennials in AIDS Army by Barry David Horwitz Here, at last, we have a new play that melds the 80s with the present and shows how one man’s struggle against AIDS continues today. “Still at Risk” brings us up to date and makes us think about how we can make history….
Harold Pinter’s ‘Common Man’ Manipulated by Mom & Mafia by Barry David Horwitz “The Birthday Party” (1958), by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, is a scary “comedy of menace” because we never know whether geeky Stanley is an artist, a failed pianist, a criminal on the run, or simply a sad sack. Stanley lives…
Hershey Felder Plays Tchaikovsky, Masterfully by Barry David Horwitz Hershey Felder has come to Theatreworks to embody Tchaikovsky. When Felder, as Tchaikovsky, plays for the Opening Night of Carnegie Hall in 1891—at the request of Andrew Carnegie—we feel a shiver of excitement. New York finally celebrates Tchaikovsky as a musical genius, even though he…