“Christmas at Pemberley”: A Comedy of Romantic Rights by Barry David Horwitz Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy (the winning Cindy Im), always the groundbreaker, has run away with Christmas. She knows how to assert her new class privileges. She is the consummate hostess, sister, wife, and Eighteenth Century darling. She has charmed and tamed her Mr….
British Genius for Swing & Story on Parade by Barry David Horwitz How about a D-Day landing story from a little village, called Slapton, on the south coast of England, where thousands of U.S. troops turn up and mingle with the local Britishers? And in 1944, these rural farmers have never before seen any…
Tim Rice Blocks the Queen’s Gambit by John Chakan “Each game of chess means there’s one less variation left to be played” Go see “Chess,” still playing at the Custom Made Theatre for the great music, and an epic Cold War story-line set in their intimate Union Square playhouse. “Chess,” (1986) an operatic musical,…
Tarell Alvin McCraney Brings New Life to Yoruba Legends by Barry David Horwitz What a show. Could it be better, more moving or more passionate? Three powerful actors put their hearts and souls into examining and probing a southern U.S. story of separation, oppression, and rebellion. The set suggests a bare bones backwater shack,…