How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s...
CATS The Jellicle Ball – Broadway. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Broadway has a peculiar way of making a great theatrical season feel temporary. Just when the...
Fear and I have always had a complicated relationship. I love a good roller coaster because I know exactly what I have signed up for. The...
The most persistent conversations often happen inside our own heads. Medusa asks, or maybe demands, us to listen to them. Before the space ignites, audience members...
It’s the most compelling question of the evening, when someone asks whether you would love a family member differently after discovering an unbearable truth about them....
Suzzy Roche, Grace McLean, Alana Raquel Bowers (center), and Nina Ross in Cold War Choir Practice. Photo by Maria Baranova. A child asking for a nuclear shelter...
“She’s late, the girl.” The line lands like a flared warning before anything else has the chance to settle. It is tossed out with precision, edged...
They file in like a think-tank assembly, taking their positions for an intellectual discussion at the highest level. And then it shifts, slapping us hard with...
We have been cordially invited to a wedding, and a soft hum of sweet expectation fills the room like Golden notes in the air. We file...
Alisha Sopher, Morgan Fairchild and Luke Yankee – title characters in the play Marilyn, Mom and Me” Photo by Nicole Stranz My friend John Guare wrote...
Every awards season brings with it a nagging, but all too-familiar mixture of excitement and longing. Still, few announcements inspire quite the same feeling of theatrical...
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story arrives in New York fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe with a format that will feel immediately familiar to anyone who...
“Oh my god, did we kill him?” is the question first tossed out of Messy White Gays as it arrives at The Duke on 42nd Street....
Doireann Mac Mahon, Michael Hayden, Harrison Tipping, and Annabelle Zasowski in Irish Rep’s production of The Honey Trap. Photo by Carol Rosegg The lights shift in the...
An old-fashioned clock is stationed over the stage like a warning, or a stopwatch, counting down the minutes until High Noon strikes and Marshal Will Kane...
After an exchange of love, tenderly delivered, Alfie states, quite clearly, “I’ve accepted what Dr. Chan said on Friday.” And in that beginning, End at the...
Quietly charming and deeply nostalgic, This World of Tomorrow, a new play written by and starring Tom Hanks alongside writer James Glossman, is premiering in high...
“Prepare to be gooped,” we are told, wisely, as we slide onto the slick with absurdity slopes at the SoHo Playhouse, where Gwyneth Goes Skiing returns...
Go to La MaMa if you dare see where humanity os headed. Tim Blake Nelson’s And Then We Were No More, directed with cerebral precision and...
There’s something ever so familiar to this Public Theater premiere of The Other Americans. But once the spin starts, the detergent used is something very specific...
At the AMT Theater on West 45th Street, Lost and Found — a new play by Angelica Gorga, directed by Christine Cirker — unfolds in the...
Few artists embody the true spirit of a Renaissance man quite like Ted Lange. Honored with the NAACP’s Renaissance Man Theatre Award, Lange’s career stretches across...
With a tender ear for the pain of imprisonment and racial profiling, balanced with the virtue of love and Forgiveness, from any and all angles, the...
We went into each, hesitatingly, thinking these two shows would be strictly just ‘cute’. And probably well done, but not much more than that. I tend...
She studies herself, deep into the mirror in the first few telling moments of Here For Now Theatre‘s auspicious world premiere of Stick Around, examining her birthday...
