In the second act of director David Cromer’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, currently enjoying an open run at the Barrow Street Theater, the character of the Stage Manager, performed by Cromer himself, interrupts the play’s main storyline to reflect, as he is wont to do, on the nature of love and marriage: “You [...]
Author Archives: Eric Rosenblum
Review: “The Cherry Orchard,” BAM Harvey Theater, Jan. 3 – Mar. 8
February 6, 2009 – 2:57 pm
There’s a moment in Sam Mendes’ new production of “The Cherry Orchard” in which the pompous young manservant Yasha (Josh Hamilton) and his adoring lover Dunyasha (Charlotte Parry) are alone in a field, kissing. Yasha says he doesn’t like girls who are too forward. “…[A] girl must know her place,” he says. “If there’s one [...]
Review: David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.” Ethel Barrymore Theater, Oct. 23 – Feb. 22
November 18, 2008 – 9:22 am
When David Mamet’s play, “Speed-the-Plow,” first premiered on Broadway in 1988, Madonna, fresh off her “Who’s that girl?” tour and a year before the release of her hit single, “Express Yourself,” was cast in the play’s sole female role, starring alongside Mamet regular Joe Mantegna and the lesser-known Ron Silver. Having spent her career alternating [...]
