There are three things you need to know about Wrestling Jerusalem: (1) On the night I attended, the show was stopped twice due to technical issues at 59E59; (2) once the show was finally resumed for good, the sound cues had to be omitted entirely; an …Read more

A. Rey Pamatmat is Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab, and a past recipient of the Playwright of New York (PoNY) Fellowship and Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship. His work has been developed at The Public Theater, Playwrights’ Horizons, Ars Nova, and …Read more

Those in the West may not be familiar with the work of Indian stalwart Mahesh Dattani, but for decades he has been one of the leading theatre minds in the South Asian subcontinent. As a playwright, his seminal works Dance Like a Man and Final Solutio …Read more

In May, I reviewed Junoon as a dance troupe to watch out for, because of their varied take on the Bollywood aesthetic. In their new show Aks, which means reflection, held at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Junoon tackles some difficult topics …Read more

There’s a lot that goes wrong in Promising, a new play by Michelle Elliott presented by InProximity Theatre at the Beckett Theatre: a City Council member is accused of sexual assault, a twenty-year-old who believes that the world is ending quits scho …Read more

When Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus came out in 1993 and spent 121 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, it went from a self-help book for the relationship-challenged to an accepted pop psychology phenomenon. Though many of the claims …Read more

“Let’s lead the world in a whole new dance, / God knows it’s our only chance. “ – Kathy Change/Kathleen Chang Chang(e), a docudrama inspired by and based on the life of performance artist/activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang), who self-immo …Read more

Hasan Minhaj, a correspondent on The Daily Show, is currently performing Off-Broadway in Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King.  The solo show, about Minhaj’s experiences growing up in the mostly white town of Davis, California, concludes its sold-out run on …Read more

Homecoming King, the one-man show by Hasan Minhaj now playing at Cherry Lane Theater, tells a familiar story – a young Indian boy growing up in the mostly white town of Davis, California. His story is rife with immigrant angst and culture clashes, wi …Read more

There are many reasons to check out Hamlet in Bed at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, not the least of which is its excellent title. Add to that the star power of Emmy Award-nominated Annette O’Toole and Drama Desk nominee Michael Laurence (who a …Read more