All on one day, a Saturday in June, I found myself feasting on Atlantic Theater Company‘s Days of Wine and Roses after a lunchtime visit with...
Imagine. 1909. Angel Island, San Francisco. It’s a time and a world I knew little about, but thanks to the thoughtful emotional writing of Lloyd Suh...
The room sits modern, sterile, and cold, reflecting out to us a waiting room space that feels as inviting as that vending machine in the back....
Sarah is one strange duck. She really is, and I’m not talking about the real life Sarah Silverman, who, I must admit is pretty friggin awesome....
After its world premiere production at the Atlantic Theater Company, Kimberly Akimbo is coming to Broadway this fall. The Kimberly Akimbo panel at BroadwayCon was moderated by...
From a large rectangular window, the curtains are pulled back to the mystical sounds of piano, and we are given a glimpse into something special and...
The week that I had in New York City earlier this month, before all the “abundence of caution” notices sadly were being posted, seemed to revolve...
Carla Gugino. Photo by Ahron R. Foster. [Over the next few days, I’m posting reviews of shows I saw before Broadway and Off-Broadway went dark. It’s...
Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Wanda Wheels), Elizabeth Canavan (Rockaway Rosie), Benja Kay Thomas (Queen Sugar), Pernell Walker (Munchies), Victor Almanzar (Joey Fresco), Liza Colón-Zayas (Sarge), Andrea Syglowski...
Liza Colón-Zayas, Andrea Syglowski Photo by Monique Carboni Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” has a fittingly vulgar title to match the whip-cracking...
On a long but fascinating Saturday, I attended too very different theatrical debates. One was a gaggle of twenty-somethings high on vodka and cocaine debating literature,...
I have been following The Secret Life of Bees since it played at Vassar at The Powerhouse. Based on Sue Monk Kidd’s best-selling novel set in...
On an exquisite candle lit stage of exposed brick, emphasizing the poetically beautiful arched walls of the Linda Gross Theater, The Secret Life of Bees, Atlantic Theater‘s new musical...
When I first saw Marin Ireland in last years Transport Group/CSC’s Summer and Smoke, I was literally blown away by the seductive and selective impulses that...
As we sit uncomfortably with the tragic news from Pittsburgh last week, it’s hard not to let the terror of that mass murder flit about in...
Donja R. Love’s Fireflies finds Olivia (DeWanda Wise) writing a letter to a woman who we assume is a friend, as she smokes a cigarette. The sky is...
Is it 15 minutes of fame, or infamy? Because I’m not sure if the Atlantic Theater Company‘s new rock opera, This Ain’t No Disco is going...
Like the silliness of any Beatles movie or the Mike Myers “Austin Powers” films, Shakespeare has now been given a zany update. These Paper Bullets!, is...
