MARK BLANKENSHIP

By MARK BLANKENSHIP   Noel Coward insisted that Blithe Spirit, currently playing at Broadway’s Shubert Theater, had no soul. The classic 1941 farce, written in a mere six days, revels in its own mechanics, calling as much attention to the plot as to the characters who keep the plot moving.  That may be for the […]

by Mark Blankenship

by Mark Blankenship On May 27, the crowd gathered at Manhattan’s Professional Performing Arts School was both incredibly diverse and entirely the same. It was easy to spot a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright toasting sodas with a high school senior, or a Tony Award-winning director running to hug a drama teacher in the school’s auditorium. Though […]

By Mark Blankenship As Sky Masterson in the current Broadway revival of  Guys and Dolls, Craig Bierko has asked luck to be a lady hundreds of times since the production opened last fall at the Nederlander Theatre.    Since he’s been playing Sky for months, Bierko is faced with the particular challenges of a long […]