From NewCity Stage “Inherit the Wind” began life in 1950 as a script so dangerously subversive that it took playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, already a successful writing team, five years before a producer in Dallas agreed to stage it. Today it still has subversive power. The Goodman’s current production with powerhouse performances by its dueling lead actors, Tony Award-nominee Alexander Gemignani and stage and screen staple and local favorite Harry Lennix, brin

From NewCity Stage Like the Irish characters and culture in the play, the space is proud, poor and threatened—subordinated by English force, English language and English cultural domination. Though most of the characters are depicted as speaking Irish nearly all the time, Friel’s drama has them conversing in English as though they were dubbed. The English characters speak English to both each other and the Irish, and three of the seven Irish characters are fluent enough in En

From NewCity Stage Mazzoli has created a bright and terrifyingly complex, often startling, soundscape. Her music demands all from the Lyric’s always superb orchestra under conductor Enrique Mazzola, and gets it. Read more ...