If you’re looking to get a taste of nature in New York City, the East Village seems like an unlikely place to find it. But this call to nature is being heard at La MaMa, which kicked off its biennial Puppet Series this week with Crane: on eart …Read more

The future is a tricky thing. Though it always lies ahead, what was once the future has since become present and is now the past. But these tricky concepts lie at the heart of Futurity, a co-production by Soho Rep and Ars Nova currently playing at th …Read more

Last month, audiences at the New York International Fringe Festival were treated to the hilarious and thoughtful one-man show A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. The show brings David Foster Wallace’s classic essay to life, as performer Chris …Read more

“I live in an indie movie.” So declares Kelly K. Kelly, the main character of Hard Day’s Night, a wonderfully entertaining new play by Vicki Vodrey currently playing at the New York International Fringe Festival. And given Kelly’s family, the compari …Read more

In 1995, author David Foster Wallace set sail on a seven-night luxury Caribbean cruise aboard the MV Zenith and wrote about his experience in Harper’s Magazine, later republished as the essay A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Twenty years l …Read more

Plastic bags, flashlights, a white canvas, and Day-Glo bendy straws become the portal to a subterranean world in dungeon, an imaginative puppetry piece currently playing at the New York International Fringe Festival. Presented by Artistic Abandon NYC …Read more

An elderly woman slowly emerges from behind a trunk, plugs in a small lamp, and retreats into the past. So begins Dancers, a ‘movement play’ performed by Wrought Atlas Theatre Ensemble currently making its North American premiere at the New York Inte …Read more

Starting college is a massive life change, as students face new relationships and responsibilities. It’s no surprise, then, that mental health struggles are a growing concern amongst college students; the National Alliance for Mental Illness reports …Read more

From Count Basie to Benny Goodman, the Big Band era of the early 20th century was dominated by men. Except for Ina Ray Hutton, that is. Hutton was the most successful female bandleader of the time and the first woman with her own television show, but …Read more

The high-profile world of the NBA is dominated by men, but in King Liz, it’s a woman who takes center court. Fernanda Coppel’s new play, currently premiering at Second Stage Uptown, takes on professional basketball from the perspective of Liz Rico (K …Read more