By Ken Fallin There are performances that impress you, and then there are performances in which you can actually see an actor transform thought into flesh....
There are family secrets we inherit, family stories we repeat and family wounds we spend a lifetime trying to understand. In Crazy Mama: A True Story...
Caricature by Ken Fallin In the New York premiere of Gene & Gilda at 59E59, Penguin Rep presents a bittersweet love letter to two of comedy’s...
The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical opened tonight at 59E59. This show originally ran at Penguin Rep Theatre and is now making its Off-Broadway debut at...
In the buttoned-up 1950s an ex-GI returned from Denmark as Christine Jorgensen, America’s first transgender celebrity. From February 08 – March 03, 2024, The Christine Jorgensen Show, a musical...
By Jacqueline Parker Theresa Rebeck’s new play is certainly well-named—so much conveyed in such a tiny title! There’s the literal digging in soil, of course. Much...
By Dennis White The theater is filled with eerie almost tribal music with birds chirping as the audience finds their seats for Primary Stages’ production of...
From the list of ingredients, Fern Hill, written with a kind charm by Michael Tucker (The M Spot, ‘L.A. Law‘), seems like a sure thing. The new...
“Imagine“. Two young mop-haired men, tired from a hard day’s night, are lead into a shabby hotel room (a straight forward scenic design by Michael Ganio)....
“What did we get ourselves into“, I ask my fellow Theatrejunkie. I was concerned (well, really, just over-tired after Awards season) as the cover of the...
Willy Holtzman, started off writing by writing a biography about the fabulous Judy Holliday and now has turned it into a bio drama called Smart Blonde playing at...
“Before“, “During“, and then After; the triptych set-up of Michael McKeever’s clever new timely play ramps up the energy and suspense with precision and smarts. It starts...
When arriving at the 59E59 Theaters, my companion for this particular night of theatre asked me why I had wanted to see Snowy Owl‘s The Waiting Game, a new...
After a sold-out and award winning run at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was called “one of the Top 5 LGBTQ shows to see” by...
Less Than 50%, the one man (+ one woman) show is billed as an “unromantic comedy“, tracing a young actor’s on and off again relationship with...
In 1973 there was a groundbreaking series on British television which brought Jacob Bronowski and his brand of popular scientific philosophy to the masses. The show...
An intense piece of theatrical writing by playwright, Brad Birch (Black Mountain), drawing us quickly into the moon like circle and building on our curiosity inch...
On December 12, 1940, in the middle of World War II, the Sheffield Blitz began. For three nights, the Luftwaffe air force targeting the steel work...
Alexander V. Thompson’s new comedy, Pete Rex, performed by the Dreamscape Theatre at 59E59, starts with a video projection of a primitive man fighting a dinosaur. The...
I really wanted to like this. A story that revolves around a kid in the coastal town of Newport, South Wales, obsessed with performing magic and...
Produced by J.U.S.T. Toys Productions @59E59 Theaters Toys: A Dark Fairy Tale is a complicated creature to digest. It begs us to try to dissect the feast...
The title of William Donnelly’s compelling new play, No Wake at 59E59 Theaters, courtesy of Route 66 Theatre Company and Bella Vista Entertainment, has a two...
“Life is about choices”, so says Gio, the gentleman tailor at the center of this drama. And in The Violin, for the most part, good choices...
I feel terrible that I’m going to write the things that need to be said here. The intentions for Stephen Kaplan’s A Real Boy, as directed...
It’s a stark black set, a runway of sorts, with audience members on both sides of the slim acting space. Two chairs, and a number of...
