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04 Dec TIO NYC: The “Hills” Are Alive – But Only If You Speak Yorkshire!
For our last cultural hit in NYC, we headed to the hills, Jez Butterworth’s “Hills of California,” which were alive – but with the sounds of Yorkshire, England, laid on as thick as molasses. So the moving domestic drama about sibling rivalry, family grief, and...
30 Nov TIO NYC: More DEI in the Arts (and that’s a good thing…)!
With apologies to Buffalo Springfield, something’s happening here. What it is is becoming clear… Call it Synchronicity? Coincidence? Karma? On recent evening, we attended a reading of Oren Sadie’s “Imminent Domain” at Frances Hill Barlow’s Urban Stages. The plot is simple: Syd and Carrie...
25 Nov TIO NYC: Black Is Beautiful, Recently on Stage & More!
This is New York, where black has always been and remains a thing, on and off the rack. And in this iteration, breathtakingly beautiful on stage. Don’t miss Complexions at The Joyce or “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney. Sorry to say two other happenings...
19 Nov TIO NYC: More Art, Low & High!
We are always on a high in New York- even when the art we are seeing goes low. Such was the case with “Oh Mary!” The high: also saw the show at the Met all about Sienese art and the rise of painting in the...
16 Nov TIO NYC+: DEI & More on Display!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (or DEI) is the subtext of our ongoing cultural bath in Manhattan and surrounds, just as post-election, the acronym still echoes loud and clear in the zeitgeist. Yellow Face at the Roundabout Theatre: Identity, noun: The fact of being who or...
10 Nov TIO NYC: Branaugh’s “Lear,” The Unkindest Cut – But Great Abs!
Right after Election Day, an unhappy affair in our view to say the least, we saw Kenneth Branagh’s production of “King Lear,” also a less than happy affair. The show is up at Hudson Yards’ The Shed through December 15. Let’s just say Branagh’s was...
06 Nov TIO NYC: Speaking Frank-ly!
Jealousy, personal politics, and the high price of lies and betrayal. individual and national. The socio-cultural-political themes of the powerful “People of the Book,” the most recent (and sadly recently closed) play at Frances Hill Barlow’s Urban Stages, could you have been snatched from today’s...
17 Nov TIO NYC: Meditation on the Bard’s Baddies, Just Sooo Good. Run Extended to February!
“All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain” is a chronological account of the best of the Bard’s worst – rogues, thieves and sociopaths. The production was written by the man who stars in the show, easily one of America’s most celebrated classical...