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James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Carey Purcell review La Femme Theatre Production of An American Daughter @ The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, The Winter’s Tale @ Delacorte Theater, The Lisbon Traviata @ Bridge Street Theatre, The Pass @ La Mama, West Side Story (movie) at the Paris movie theater, The Saviors @ Atlantic Theater Company, and Hungry Women @ SoHo Playhouse
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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers!
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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE has been a theater journalist for more than 50 years. The founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. Additionally, Michael is known as a producer and director of shows at 54 Below, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and other venues.
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Carey Purcell | Website | Instagram
Carey is a writer and editor whose nonfiction writing on theater, film, feminism and health care has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Nation, TDF Stages, Theatermania and The Village Voice, among others. She has also served on the editorial staffs of Playbill and People. Her nonfiction book, From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater, was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury.
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Reviews
CP + MP: La Femme Theatre Production of An American Daughter @ The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, through September 20, 2026
La Femme Theatre Productions is proud to present Wendy Wasserstein’s timely play An American Daughter, running through September 20 on The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City. The production is directed by Sarna Lapine and opened on August 11, 2026.
Leading the cast is Montego Glover (Gypsy), Robert Sean Leonard (Sunday in the Park With George), and Jean Lichty (The Night of the Iguana), joined by Dakin Matthews (Camelot), Mary Beth Peil (Anastasia), Ryan Spahn (Gloria), Will DeVary (Master Harold …and the Boys), Chris Ghaffari (Coriolanus), and Carmen Zilles (Dog Day Afternoon).
CP: The Winter’s Tale @ Delacorte Theater, through August 23, 2026
Written by William Shakespeare
Choreography by Mimi Lieber
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
MP: The Lisbon Traviata @ Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY
By Terrence McNally
Directed and Designed by John Sowle
Costumes by Michelle Rogers
Assistant Director – Steven Patterson
Fight Director – Carson Borst
Stage Manager – Stacey Dobos
With
Timothy Dunn as Mendy
Michael Raver as Stephen
Jeff Brackett as Mike
M. Damon Hawkins as Paul
CP: The Max Hunter Company‘s production of The Pass @ La Mama, through September 4, 2026
Written by John Donnelly
Directed by Max Hunter
Starring Matisse Ratron-Neal (Girl Says Woman Says Man Says), Terry Bell (The Skin of Our Teeth), Ino Badanjak (Queens), and Oliver Rowland-Jones (Oedipus)
MP: West Side Story (movie) at the Paris movie theater
Big & Loud 2026 series
CP: The Saviors @ Atlantic Theater Company‘s Linda Gross Theater, through August 15, 2026
by Bubba Weiler
directed by Jack Serio
When a lost young man takes shelter in their church, two altar boys desperately cling to each other as their changing faiths, lives, and bodies threaten to tear them apart.
CP: Hungry Women @ SoHo Playhouse, through August 30, 2026
A world without men? How delicious.
The winner of last year’s SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series, Hungry Women is a world-premiere dark comedy that speculates: “What would happen if men went extinct, and women were in charge?”
Starring Tony Nominee Julia Lester (Into the Woods, All Nighter), this original play explores hundreds of years of absurd and twisted what-if herstory by way of a sharp script, gripping performances, and an unapologetically feminist lens. In between the cannibalism, ghosts, and science fiction, rising playwright Melissa Maney examines survival, identity, sexuality, motherhood, and the reshaping of power in the absence of the patriarchy.
In the end, it asks: What are women most hungry for?
Come find out.
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Peter’s Brainteaser:
In a black-and-white film version of a play that became far more famous as a musical, these two featured players eventually donned drag in a scene set in a restaurant. This would not be the only time in these men’s careers that they would be so dressed.
The taller of the two performers would two years later wear drag in another black-and-white movie that was eventually protected by the National Film Registry. It was made right around the same time that he starred in a Broadway musical.
The shorter of the two performers donned drag 14 years after he’d made that black-and-white film, when he starred in a Broadway musical that had been adapted from a very different movie — also a black-and-white one — that had also been protected by the National Film Registry.
What’s the black-and-white film in which they donned drag?
Who are the two actors?
In what subsequent black-and-white films did the taller of two performers don drag?
What were the names of the musicals that they did?
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