It’s a testament to Rory Kulz’ performance in The Old Masters, a play by Sam Marks running at the Flea Theater, that the character he plays comes across as someone worthy of the audience’s care and concern. Ben, the central, unlikable character in a …Read more

“Nothing is easy and simple anymore,” declares Lori, one of the protagonists of Blackout03. Both plays I attended at HERE Arts Center as part of the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, Blackout03 and Bed Bugs and Hot Pockets, revealed to the audience th …Read more

Junoon Performing Arts, an Indo-Contemporary dance company based in New York and New Jersey, presented their first major theatrical production called Dil Se: A Journey through Emotions on Sunday May 10 at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center. Featu …Read more

The effect of witnessing Yael Farber’s Nirbhaya unfold can only be marginally described or captured. I am not yet critic enough to dare to criticize it, to look at it with the cutting lens of a careful eye. The title, meaning ‘fearless,’ is also the …Read more

Identity, self vs. state, radicalism, liberalism: there are just some of the themes at play in True Believer, a solo play developed at Theaterlab written by Asa Merritt and performed by Kersti Bryan. These themes collide in ways that are in equal par …Read more

The most frequently heard pronoun in an autobiographical solo show is ‘I.’ The ‘I’ in 8 Stops, one of the two solo shows currently running in rep at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is Deb Margolin, and her complex tale weaves motherhood, cancer, grief, gett …Read more

On April 3rd and 4th the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) held its bi-annual literary festival titled Emerge: New Mediums, New Voices at the Asian American Writers Workshop. Staying true to the title, the festival featured a range of S …Read more

Whenever there’s a non-traditional production of the Bard’s work, it’s hard to not comment on how universal the plays are, how the themes and stories are easily transportable to any space and time. When taking on Shakespeare’s text, anything goes. Ra …Read more

Rehana Lew Mirza is the first South Asian playwright to have her work be produced by the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company. I spoke to her about her journey as a playwright, the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and her latest work, Soldier X, …Read more

For a play that features three vets dealing with issues ranging from PTSD to sexual assault, Rehana Lew Mirza’s Soldier X is surprisingly buoyant. It begins with recent recruit Lieutenant Monica Burnes trying to get veteran Lance Corporal Lynn Downey …Read more