Spirits and evil shadows seem to be floating on the waves that projectively crash into the living room that stands center stage of the Lincoln Center...
“Let’s play a game,” she says to their gaggle of friends with a casual giddiness that in a way feels true, but also contains an edge...
“What do you want from your machines?” we are asked at the beginning of the very sweet-natured new musical, We Are Your Robots, a co-production between...
“So tell me, how the hell am I going to write that up?” I say to my buddy at the pseudo special ending of Vineyard Theatre‘s...
The rock music of BETTY (Off-Broadway’s BETTY Rules) drives us into this musical meeting of the minds, as legendary producer Gus, forcibly played by Arliss Howard...
“Are you OK?” he asks, as the two face off over beers after matching online. The two strangers sit, grinning and frowning at one another in...
There is a fair bit of truth to the underlying framing delivered here, that Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, truly loves Romeo just a little more than...
“The world is collapsing all around us,” they tell us in the dynamic environmental Walden, and it’s impossible not to take in that sentiment and feel it...
It’s election day in America, on the day I write this review (now the morning after and I’m feeling destroyed). It feels very appropriate (although difficult...
It’s a fairy story in drag, introduced by producer Liza Minnelli, who, naturally, opens the whole thing up with a prelude to a Rock song like...
An upright piano stands silently and singularly on stage in a cool pool of light just waiting to bring the epic sounds of Ragtime to life....
With great fanfare, and a pretty amazing projected vista, courtesy of the majestic work of designer Aaron Rhyne (Public on Broadway’s for colored girls…), The Big Gay...
This isn’t so much theatre, but more like a wake-up call. Or possibly and more accurately, Deep History, a play written and performed intelligently by David...
A haunting dynamic envelopes the space, one that is systematically unveiled on The Public Theater‘s Martinson stage. It frames the space in deeply connecting shadows and...
With Halloween around the corner, I’m finding myself surrounded by gothic murders and monsters at every turn. I witnessed a trio of Goblins giving us all a Macbeth that was both...
Holding high his degree in imagination, Gianmarco Soresi, a theater kid turned wildly funny stand-up comedian, delivered another installment of his Theater Adult, a ridiculously engaging...
Starting at the dawning of a new millennium, Vladimir, the new play by Erika Sheffer (Russian Transport; Netflix’s “The Beast in Me“), sets forth a fascinating...
Death is something that generally people don’t like to talk about. I wrote about this just a few days ago when reviewing Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film,...
“The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” is pledged within the first few moments of The Fountain Theatre‘s verbatim theater production of Fatherland,...
Never off key, but sometimes off its mark, the latest edition of Forbidden Broadwaycirca 2024 titled Merrily We Stole A Song opens hilariously off-Broadway at Theatre...
“No shit, Kathy!” is the internal dialogue response flung out hilariously true into the audience by the anxious and magnificent Jada, tossed at her unseen therapist...
What is the truth, the real truth, if it exists, and where do we put our faith and belief systems, when it becomes compromised and disjointed?...
(front row l-r) Haley Wong (Sally Poppy), Paige Gilbert (Hannah Rusted), Susannah Perkins (Mary Middleton); (2nd row) Simone Recasner (Peg Carter), Ann Harada (Judith Brewer), (3rd...
“We aren’t here to talk about him,” N states pretty early on in Mario Correa’s new play N/A which recently had its world premiere at the...
Diving into the emotionally turbulent world of rock and roll, courtesy of MCC Theater, The Lonely Few demands to be heard. It sings out loud and...
