Living in New York, we pass by hundreds of people a day, the crowd so ubiquitous that we almost don’t notice them (unless of course they’re standing directly in our way). With her one-woman show Such Nice Shoes, Christine Renee Miller delves into New …Read more

“They said it wasn’t like this anymore.” So observes the protagonist of Theresa Rebeck’s play What We’re Up Against as the endless misogyny of her workplace prevents her from utilizing her formidable talents. With this timely and deeply relevant prod …Read more

In a society focused on thinness as one of the defining qualities of beauty, women often have complicated and thorny relationships with food. The different ways that frustration can be expressed is the focus of comedian Lisa Lampanelli’s new play Stu …Read more

All too often, kids’ entertainment means that, while the little ones have a great time, parents are abandoned to hour-long series of boredom. Not so at the New Victory Theatre. With Mr. Popper’s Penguins, director Emma Earle presents fun that actuall …Read more

Puffs: or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic begins by introducing us to a boy we’re all familiar with, an orphaned infant with a scar on his forehead, the boy who lived. It is not about that boy. Matt Cox’s gen …Read more

With the election getting closer every day, the country’s most pressing political issues are on everyone’s minds. Theatre for the New City turns to folk music to tackle some of the biggest issues deciding today’s political climate in its new play The …Read more

With Miss Julie, the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre takes its modern New York audience back to 1888, when counts lorded over their manors and the slightest wisp of scandal could end a girl’s life. Set in Switzerland, Miss Julie tells the story of Ju …Read more

As a writer, performer, and director, Winsome Brown wears a lot of hats, which works out well for her current piece, Hit the Body Alarm, a one-woman show that weaves together four stories. Bringing Paradise Lost to modern theater by showing Eve and S …Read more

The Irish Arts Center’s How to Keep an Alien is a laugh-a-minute kind of show. In this one-woman romantic comedy, presented as part of Origin’s 1st Irish theater festival, love must be proven through endless paperwork, collectable moments kept in a b …Read more

The premise sells itself: a musical based on Craigslist ads. It’s a clever idea that promises a humorous look at what people look for behind the shield of anonymity. And for the most part, Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone deliver as p …Read more