
Jitterbugs “Swing!” on the Carnegie Stage
Review by Jack Crumley of “Swing!”: The Carnegie The Carnegie is pulling out all the stops for its final show of the 2018-2019 season with
Review by Jack Crumley of “Swing!”: The Carnegie The Carnegie is pulling out all the stops for its final show of the 2018-2019 season with
Review by Laurel Humes of “Swing!”: Carnegie Theatre The Carnegie has “œSwing!“ ““ an exuberant, nostalgic, song-and-dance show that revisits the swing era of jazz
Overall, Henry V is always worth seeing, as every production emphasizes a new angle or a new perspective.
In 1611 Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by an English woman. The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets – and the rest of her story has been erased by history.
This play hit home for me. I would be remiss not to mention that my maternal grandmother was a hoarder and my paternal grandmother suffered from dementia. My direct connection to these themes combined with Wohl’s gentle portrayal of Sam caused me to become emotional during the later scenes of the play which I wasn’t fully expecting.