NEWS AND UPDATES
As playwright in residence at Theater for the New City, Claude Solnik has written plays seen by thousands, earned favorable reviews and brought memorable characters and stories to life. His work also has been performed Off Broadway, in Paris, Philadelphia and on regional stages.
“Be prepared for the ride of your life”
Broadway World
“lyrical enough to be worthy of the master”
Newsday
“well-researched and imaginatively conceived”
TheatreScene.net
“the wingless beauty of birds of paradise”
Broadway World
“looking beneath the surface and finding beauty, pain, longing and dreams.”
Long Island Herald
“A play that is keenly aware of how much we of the twenty-first century need to be thinking about women’s long fight for freedom in America right now... I was still with Victoria Woodhull.”
Theatre is Easy
"Playwright Claude Solnik and director Joe John Battista’s collaboration, A Life in the Rye was a highly theatrical, well-written and grandly performed biographical fantasia of the life of J.D. Salinger with his younger self as a prominent character."
Theatrescene.net
"It combines the diversity of New York life with the fundamentals of being human and how any one of us could wind up in this situation next."
Broadway World
“finely wrought new play… a Kennedy story you haven’t heard”
The Chronicle
“Life In The Rye at Theater For The New City dazzles."
LocaltheaterUSA
“much to appreciate. The mingling of fact and fiction is generally credible.”
Talkin' Broadway
"Playwright Claude Solnik now harnesses the tragic beauty of this man's life in his new play A Life In the Rye, rebirthing a story that exquisitely brings together real life, literary creation, lost love and the effects of war."
Broadway World
