Taub & Woolery’s Musical Updates Shakespeare’s Rom-Com by Patricia L. Morin & Barry David Horwitz In Director Bill English’s Tiffany-bejeweled Forest of Arden, trees glow with stained glass beauty, while lovers experiment with gender-swap. Arden is a sacred “in-between” place where old ways of loving get revalued, and unexpected affections blossom. “As You Like…
Taylor & Jones’ Musical Echoes Mahalia Jackson’s Spirituality by Barry David Horwitz In “HALIE! The Mahalia Jackson Musical,” co-writers Wendy E. Taylor and Darryl V. Jones dramatize the life of Mahalia Jackson, the most gifted Gospel singer of all time. She influenced all the music around her: Blues, Rock n’Roll, Pop—they all incorporate Jackson’s…
David Strathairn Vividly Embodies Polish Hero & His Warning by Jeanette Quick In a brilliant one man show, David Strathairn dramatizes the story of Jan Karski, a young Polish Catholic diplomat during the Holocaust. Karski struggled to tell the outside world what was happening in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Death Camps—horrors he…
Millennial Notes Dave Malloy Links Romantic Fantasy to Invasion of Russia by Rosa Del Duca You are encouraged to order a decadent cocktail before finding your seat at “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.” Shotgun’s stage has been transformed into a swanky set—part “wild night at the opera,” part “quiet evening at…