After 50 Years, Elaine May Returns to Broadway
[Originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, October 26, 2018.] After a half-century absence, Elaine May has returned to Broadway, only to fade away before our eyes. Each beat of […]
In ‘Mary Page Marlowe,’ Six Actors Create One (Un-) Exceptional Woman
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 12, 2018.] Six actors and a fake baby in sequential performances dramatize one woman’s life journey in Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe at Second Stage’s […]
At Last, There’s ‘Peace for Mary Frances’ (and Lois Smith)
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, May 24, 2018.] In The New Group’s production of Lily Thorne’s painful and beautiful play Peace for Mary Frances, an extended family contends with an aging […]
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