Joan Marcus

Jan 10, 2025 | dailygazette.com | Adam Shinder |Joan Marcus

SCHENECTADY — Max Chernin has been in Leo Frank’s shoes before — just not on a full-time basis. As a cast member in the 2023 Broadway revival of “Parade,” Chernin understudied the role of Frank, the Jewish American factory manager whose 1913 trial and subsequent 1915 lynching in Georgia is the basis of the story behind the musical.

Dec 5, 2024 | richmond.com | Joan Marcus

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Nov 22, 2024 | hive.news | Joan Marcus |Matthew Murphy

In 2000, the $15 million Disney musical “Aida” got a zero’s welcome to Broadway. The show starring Heather Headley and Sherie Rene Scott was slammed by theater critics (“a pompous bore,” said The Post’s Clive Barnes) and didn’t manage a coveted Tony Award nomination for Best Musical. But, as male lead Radames sings, fortune favors the brave.

Nov 14, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Joan Marcus |Ana Carpenter

“Yellow Face,” with performances from Sept. 13 through Nov. 24 at the Todd Haimes Theatre, is a profoundly uncomfortable exploration of racism, identity, and the double standard that blurs racial boundaries for some and militantly enforces them for others. It’s also hysterically, ruthlessly funny, the kind of humor that embraces discomfort as a language of comedy and eviscerates everything in its path. To describe “Yellow Face” as metatextual would be an understatement.

Nov 5, 2024 | telegraphherald.com | Joan Marcus

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