by Chris Rohmann | Feb 2, 2010 | Stage
Seven years ago this month, Spalding Gray, who revolutionized the monologue form with Swimming to Cambodia and other intensely personal performance pieces, and who had suffered from depression all his life, stepped off the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New...
by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2010 | Stage
You can have your Squiggles the Clown and Hondo the Magnificent. It takes a clown of bigger aspirations to dub himself Avner the Eccentric. Avner Eisenberg is indeed a clown of eccentric tendencies, offering physical comedy, acts of audacious balancing and a mix of...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 11, 2010 | Stage
Hamlet is dying. Fatally pierced by Laertes' poisoned rapier, the Prince of Denmark draws his breath in pain to speak his immortal last line:"Rosebud."The two other corpses on the stage are twitching with laughter. The line isn't in...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 11, 2010 | Stage
The Vagina Monologues is an international phenomenon. Since its birth in 1998, Eve Ensler's compilation of women's reflections on their most private part has become an annual event, with performances in hundreds of schools, colleges, community venues and...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 18, 2010 | Stage
Imagine this scene: It's 1960, and John F. Kennedy is running for president. In a New York hotel room, he is strategizing with his brother and closest advisor, Robert Kennedy, about courting "the Negro vote." JFK is annoyed that baseball hero Jackie...
