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Saturday, March 11, 2023

In The Author’s Voice a new interview for PERICLES AND ASPASIA by Yvonne Korshak on WSIU by Yvonne Korshak

There an interview with me about PERICLES AND ASPASIA on National Public Radio station WSIU in Southern Illinois -- and I have to say I love it. I got to say things that I really, truly mean…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:52PM
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

PERICLES AND ASPASIA — Novel Set In Ancient Greece Features Real Life Historical Feminist Figure Defying Social Customs” by Yvonne Korshak

Novel Set In Ancient Greece Features Aspasia, a Real Life Historical Feminist Figure Defying Social Customs

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:33PM
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

In the news: Yvonne Korshak’s new novel, PERICLES AND ASPASIA – TV podcast by Yvonne Korshak

Logan Crawford featured my novel, PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece on his TV podcast, "Spotlight." For those who would like to see it, here's the link:https://www.youtube.com/…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 11:55AM
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Yvonne Korshak in Podcast on Pericles and Aspasia, Sophocles, Antigone, and ancient Greek theater by Yvonne Korshak

An interview with author Yvonne Korshak, discussing Ancient Athenian theatre, Antigone, Sophocles and all things Pericles and Aspasia., on Philip Rowe's Podcast, "The History of European The…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:07PM
Friday, November 18, 2022

My novel PERICLES AND ASPASIA — reviewed! by Yvonne Korshak

PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A stellar, epic-length evocation of the golden age of Athens, rich with historical insight.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 12:56PM
Thursday, November 10, 2022

In my novel PERICLES AND ASPASIA, a young girl arrives in Athens . . . by Yvonne Korshak

Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:30PM
Sunday, October 9, 2022

My new novel — PERICLES AND ASPASIA — has just been published by Yvonne Korshak

In Athens' Golden Age, Pericles, the statesman and general and Aspasia, one of the most influential women of the ancient world, find love against the odds, their story bringing to life the a…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 03:53PM
Sunday, November 24, 2019

What’s “American” about Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here? by Yvonne Korshak

What's particularly American about Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here -- the American landscape and the symbolism of new frontiers

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 01:51PM
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Review | Shakespeare’s As You Like It | Directed by John Doyle | Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

Not much enchantment but As You Like It is a wonderful play so that, even with this disappointing production, it’s not a wasted evening.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:21PM

Review | Shakespeare’s As You Like It | Directed by John Doyle | Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

…  without enchantment … As You Like It is a wonderful play so that, even with this disappointing production, it’s not a wasted evening.  The language is so powerful and some of the …

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:21PM
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Review | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan | Music by Jeanine Tesori | Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | North Fork Community by Yvonne Korshak

A delightful musical filled with laughs-- that's Thoroughly Modern Millie, presented here with youthfully energy and joy.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:42PM

Review | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan | Music by Jeanine Tesori | Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | North Fork Community by Yvonne Korshak

A delightful musical filled with laughs-- that's Thoroughly Modern Millie, presented here with youthfully energy and joy.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:42PM
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Review | Intimate Apparel | By Lynn Nottage | Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

A vintage photo of an African American seamstress in New York City in 1905 comes to touching, revelatory life in Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 03:44PM

Review | Intimate Apparel | By Lynn Nottage | Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

… spinning a play from a photograph … Intimate Apparel is a good play, worth seeing, though it’s not a you-must-see-it play like Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (2008) or her more recent Swea…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 03:44PM
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Review | The Man in the Ceiling | Book by Jules Feiffer | Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa | Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

A boy busily making up characters and drawing comics -- this show, based on Feiffer’s book The Man in the Ceiling is autobiographically inspired

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:30PM

Review | The Man in the Ceiling | Book by Jules Feiffer | Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa | Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

… segregation …  The idea of this new musical show is that the world can be rough on for a little boy with a big imagination. Unfortunately this show can be rough on the audience. Young…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:30PM
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Review | Rotterdam | by Jon Brittain | Directed by Donnacadh O’Briain | 59E59 Theaters by Yvonne Korshak

As Alice composes an email to let her parents know that she is gay, Fiona drops a bombshell:, telling Alice that she, Fiona, is a transgender

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:54PM

Review | Rotterdam | by Jon Brittain | Directed by Donnacadh O’Briain | 59E59 Theaters by Yvonne Korshak

… love and gender … Fiona (Anna Martine Freeman) and Alice (Alice McCarthy) are two young women lovers, expatriate Brits living in Rotterdam.  On the very evening that Alice is composin…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:54PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Review | The Antipodes | By Annie Baker | Signature Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

Annie Baker's The Antipodes is banal, pretentious theater based on audience recognition of character types and commonplace actions and speech.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:48PM

Review | The Antipodes | By Annie Baker | Signature Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

… bored room … The Antipodes is a distasteful play. I’d found Annie Baker’s play The Flick as dull as dishwater, with no discernible redeeming merit.  Still, I went to this one, The…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 06:48PM
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Review | Cabaret | Book by Joe Masteroff | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Music by Joe Kander | North Fork Community Theatre, Mattituck, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

The songs, the musical splendor, the theatrical extravaganza and the powerful story are wonderfully realized, with a fine live orchestra.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:32PM

Review | Cabaret | Book by Joe Masteroff | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Music by Joe Kander | North Fork Community Theatre, Mattituck, Long Island by Yvonne Korshak

…  for sure come to Cabaret … If you want to see a top-notch production of  one of the best American musicals, see Cabaret at the North Fork Community Theatre.  The songs, the musical…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 07:32PM
Friday, May 19, 2017

Review | Antigone | By Jean Anouilh | Translated by Lewis Galantière | Fusion Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

Opera and text fuse in this exciting production. Antigone expresses her anguish with a Verdia aria -- and the impact is tremendous.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:47PM

Review | Antigone | By Jean Anouilh | Translated by Lewis Galantière | Fusion Theatre by Yvonne Korshak

                                                … the force of destiny … Here’s an amazing experience!   You walk into a small off-Broadway theater.  The sta…

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:47PM
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Review | Vanity Fair | By Kate Hamill | Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s Novel | Pearl Theatre Company by Yvonne Korshak

A mind-expanding production of Vanity Fair. funny and visually fascinating. Miss Hamill has discovered the Berthold Brecht in Thackeray.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:20PM

Review | Vanity Fair | By Kate Hamill | Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s Novel | Pearl Theatre Company by Yvonne Korshak

… all the world’s a vanity fair …  This is a mind-expanding production of Vanity Fair.  It’s also funny, extravagant and visually fascinating. The play, like the novel, focuses on …

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 04:20PM
Monday, May 1, 2017

Review | The Roundabout | By J. B. Priestley | Directed by Hugh Ross | 59E59 Theaters by Yvonne Korshak

Young British idealists come up against the British capitalist nobility in a bad moment for the nobility -- but in a play of laughter and wit.

SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 12:01AM
Thursday, August 8, 2013

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart, inspired by a play by Plautus, starring Peter Scolari, music and by Yvonne Korshak

Set in ancient Rome as its appealing title suggests (that title being one of the best things it has going for it) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forumis a zany comedy with music. A…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:13PM
Thursday, July 4, 2013

OFF-BROADWAY IN SAG HARBOR, LONG ISLAND – The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam, directed by Kenneth Elliott, starring David Greenspan and Tom A by Yvonne Korshak

This play is hilarious -- one laugh after another, and done with style and vivacity. I enjoyed every moment -- and smile thinking back to it. It’s a spooky take-off on Gothic melodrama, Sh…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:12PM
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Boxer at Rest, Greek bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic period, late 4th-2nd century B.C.,loan exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, June 1 by Yvonne Korshak

... humanity ... This is a rare opportunity to see one of the finest and most compelling works of art ever made. The bronze Boxer* is somewhat over life-size but so immediate it’s hard to …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:43PM
Sunday, June 2, 2013

The Civil War and American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, May 27 – September 2, 2013 by Yvonne Korshak

... the storm of war ... This outstanding exhibition moves ones thoughts between intimate experience and vast philosophical and artistic vision, all combining to give a vivid sense of the Ci…

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:13PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards