Leo Tolstoy alleged, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” With all the flair of a magician, Heidi Schreck conjures both in her new play Grand Concourse, now running at Playwrights Horizons …Read more

If birth is the sweetest ache of motherhood, then loss of a child must be hell’s torment. Sarah Ruhl’s newest play, The Oldest Boy, touches hell. Premiering at Lincoln Center, The Oldest Boy is the third play in the ongoing relationship Lincoln Cente …Read more

On a rainy Thursday, we sat down to catch up with Craig muMs Grant, fresh off his critically acclaimed one man show, A Sucker Emcee at Labyrinth Theater (now playing through October 5th). Grant may be the busiest man in the Bronx but he took a few mo …Read more

“I didn’t want to be a nurse, I wanted to be a rapper.” — Craig “muMs” Grant I should confess my bias: One, I don’t love one-man shows. Two, I have a massive artistic crush on Craig “muMs” Grant. All things considered, Mr. Grant doesn’t disappoint w …Read more

Few of us dream of drudging away at a poultry factory where we cannot feel our limbs or ever escape the cold. In Lisa Ramirez’s To The Bone, we see four Latina immigrants do just do that while praying, arguing, ranting, and trying to live with each o …Read more

Masturbation, middle age, and the declining health of prostates starts Stephen Belber’s comedic play about waning friendship. Fault Lines chronicles the bromance between Jim (Neil Holland) and Bill (Chaz Reuben) as they meet at an old haunt for Bill’ …Read more

After sitting through Ean Miles Kessler’s new play Devil Lay Me Down, you are certain to go home and call your family, thanking them for the mild dysfunction and charming embarrassments of your youth — for it is nothing compared to this parable of b …Read more

It is a Tuesday night and the first official monsoon of August and The Kraine Theater is packed — surely, a testament to the growing pull of The Dirty Blondes, a feminist theater company with a self proclaimed “taste for provocation”. We have all br …Read more

Inspired by true events, “Casa Valentina”, a new play by Harvey Fierstein, follows a group of heterosexual men who escape to the Catskills to live their weekends as pearl-donned ladies.  Mr. Fierstein, a longtime devotee of the cross-dressing narrati …Read more

As tickets become harder to move, the divisive trend of casting movie stars on the Great White Way is becoming more and more ubiquitous. The current revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is no exception.  If a sold out Satur …Read more