The people? Well, they dance on. It’s a defense mechanism—the choreography of life—and the routines that we create for ourselves become all that we know. As the pillars of Wall Street crumble, as American unemployment swells—those who are employed? They dance on. As the United States government sends our patriotic overseas to spread our nation’s [...]
Author Archives: Jennifer Dwoskin
Exit/Entrance
September 17, 2010 – 6:08 am
“There are lives going on all around us,” remarks Younger Helen, the unknowing sage of Aidan Mathews’s Exit/Entrance. Like little spheres, lives go orbiting about their separate, solo courses. Although they do bump into each other on occasion, they are hasty to forget one simple truth: we are not alone. Take, for example, an apartment [...]
Absolution
September 13, 2010 – 10:02 am
Jesus was a man of words. “He said he would save the world,” laments the main character of the play Absoultion. He promised. Believers say he sacrificed his life for the sins of his people—but was he a man of action? Where was Jesus when Father McClennan raped 7-year-old Nathan O’Lone? Nathan didn’t see him. [...]
Glass & Parwaz Playhouse
May 10, 2010 – 11:45 am
Cast and Crew of Parwaz Playhouse’s debut production, Glass. New Yorkers often forget that the theater is a treasure. For when you live amongst the fixed twinkle of Broadway, the art of mimicking life can become as repetitive as a bodega or a yellow taxi. But the theater is not something that we should take [...]
The Subject Was Roses
April 21, 2010 – 7:31 am
On Sunday, The Pearl Theatre Company unveiled the final show of its 2009-2010 season: Frank D. Gilroy’s deceptively deep The Subject Was Roses, which garnered the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Wearing the uniform of the classic American family drama, Roses centers around the homecoming of John and Nettie Cleary’s veteran son, Timmy. Yet, the play [...]
Pat Kinevane’s “Forgotten”
February 23, 2010 – 10:27 am
Every once in a while, if we are lucky, we stumble upon a work of art so staggering that it whirls about our memories long after our initial encounter. Something about it, even if we can’t pinpoint what that “something” is (which, of course, only adds to its intrigue), resonates. A most curious kabuki-based play, [...]
