Eclipsed – bearing witness to the forgotten
Nellie-Nora (Jamie M. Rea) is the strong one. Cathy (Sasha Belle Neufeld) is a wee bit sick. Mandy (Dainichia Noreault) is a wee bit off. Brigit (Lucy Paschall) is a wee bit angry. Juliet (Wynee [...]
1984 – ‘It’s not easy to become sane’
Winston Smith (Chris Harder) sits alone in a room rewriting Party history, deleting characters from tomes at the Ministry of Truth as they are disgraced or executed. The year is 1984. Everywhere [...]
Feathers and pearls – The Rocky Horror Show!
It’s a dark and stormy night when Brad (Colin Stephen Kane) and Janet (Christine Greenhalgh) set out to visit a former professor, Dr. Scott (Brian Burger), and announce their engagement. As [...]
Queens girl walks a tightrope
“For a Queens girl in the world, 1950 was a very interesting year in which to be born,” notes dramaturg Pancho Savery of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’s 2010 play Queens Girl in the [...]
Mala-a meditation for the sandwich generation
Melinda Lopez‘s Mala, now onstage at CoHo Theatre, is a very difficult play for those of us at a certain age to watch. This 80-minute one-act details the life of Mala (Julana [...]
Are you ready?
Friday the 13th is your lucky day! This Friday, September 13, I am featuring a Friday Freebie of my recently re-released book, An Unholy Alliance, the first book in the Emma Golden Mystery [...]
“A living snapshot” of Washington Heights
What constitutes community? Is it the neighborhood you were raised in, or your high school? Is it the corner market where you bought penny candy as a kid, and that vacant lot where you built [...]
September 2019 Newsletter
The State of the State It’s the day after Labor Day. The pool closed today. Students returned to school. The mornings are cooler. We think about bringing in the sheaves, and warm [...]