The School For Wives Gillian Russo 26/10/2020 Since New York still hasn’t quite figured out outdoor theatre in its parks yet, Molière in the Park on Zoom is still the next best thing. MiP’s virtua...
Donnetta Lavinia Grays – a new voice for the American theatre? Gillian Russo 01/08/2020 Playwright, actress and screenwriter Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, playwright-actress-screenwriter Donnetta Lavinia Grays had just wrapped a r...
And So We Come Forth Gillian Russo 04/07/2020 “What can you say to these kids right now?” the teacher Barbara Apple (Maryann Plunkett) asks her family, grasping for the right words to deliver in a...
Danielle DeMatteo in conversation with Gillian Russo Gillian Russo 30/06/2020 With theater shutdown due to coronavirus entering into its fifth month, some organizations have now figured out how to reimagine their shows for the d...
Brian Moreland in a telephone conversation with Gillian Russo Gillian Russo 08/06/2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world of live entertainment to a halt. But Brian Moreland, producer of recent Broadway shows including “The Life...
Midnight Your Time Donmar online Gillian Russo 14/05/2020 Whatever your love-hate relationship with Zoom looks like at this point of the pandemic, perhaps some part of you is nursing, like I am, a certain deg...
One Green Bottle Gillian Russo 02/03/2020 In a metallic, soundproof house, a family is fighting about who must cancel their plans to look after their pregnant dog at home instead. The father, ...
Frankenstein Gillian Russo 18/02/2020 Classic Stage has frankly (no pun intended) furnished its auditorium exactly how I’d expect “Frankenstein” to look: metallic and Gothic, with sparse c...
Where We Stand Gillian Russo 11/02/2020 I’m used to going to the fourth floor of the WP Theater, but it’s currently blocked off by a sign saying, “Closed for town meeting.” That struck me as...
Brecht: Call and Respond Gillian Russo 04/02/2020 What do fans of 20th-century German theatre, poetry retreats and Marie Kondo have in common? About as little as you’d expect, I’d guess, save for the ...
