Mary Lincer

2 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Andrea Stolowitz's 90-minute autobiographical play, The Berlin Diaries, challenges her two actors, and Dina Thomas and Lawrence Redmond meet the heck out of all the challenges; they play multiple roles readily and skillfully. When Stolowitz starts to read the diary that her great grandfather kept during and after his emigration from Nazi Germany to New York, she begins to realize that there may be details of her family that she doesn't know.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Andy Warhol really did go to Iran. In 1976, the Shah's wife, Farah Pahlavi, arranged to sit for Polaroid photos which Warhol would then use as a basecoat for a series of prints, and Andrew Cohen reproduces Warhol's image of her as a permanently present part of his set design. Warhol also could really order reasonably priced caviar from his hotel's room service. But playwright Brent Askari has not written a documentary.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Late in Julia Izumi's play, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!), one of the characters asks, "Is that what the whole yogurt thing is about because I'm not getting it?" It's one of several goofball/meta moments in this very theatrical play and marks the spot where Izumi acknowledges that her chosen title may not make sense. But the play itself very much makes sense.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

A superb troupe of five actors and a great trumpet player (Michael A. Thomas) do everything in their toolkit to realize Dominique Morisseau's significant play, Paradise Blue, about a Detroit jazz club caught in the post-World War II "urban renewal" which tampered with Black neighborhoods and lifestyles in American cities nationwide. They are substantially upstaged and undermined by director Raymond O. Caldwell's "concept" that a play about a jazz club ought to be set in a jazz club.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Mario Font has directed a lively production of the 2015 jukebox/autobiographical musical On Your Feet!. It's the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan's lives and careers as they evolved from local Miami, Cubano musicians in the 1970s and 80s into crossover artists, and then into internationally recognized, Grammy-winning superstars.