A play goes right when it’s both written well and performed smartly. As for “Much Ado About Nothing” at the 133rd Street Arts Center, check one for the playwright, Mr. William Shakespeare, and check two for the company, What Dreams May Co. The challe …Read more

Although “An Appeal to the Woman of the House” depicts a fictional account of four Freedom Riders trying to survive the night on the Alabama-Tennessee border in 1961, the play is about the intimate evolution of a childless married couple who have bee …Read more

Because 21st-century American cultural ideals and expectations have turned sharply away from self-reliance, duty, patriotism, and the nuclear family, contemporary theater that approaches such ideas without disdain risks seeming dated. But “Hounds of …Read more

Playlab NYC describes its production of “Professor Ralph’s Loss of Breath” as “Punch and Judy meets the Book of Job in Professor Ralph’s neglected masterpiece.” What should be added to this description is “an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short sto …Read more

A one-person show is perhaps the best setup for a play centered on a 30-something-year-old divorced woman who lives in New York City and who’s unsure of herself. In “A date for the evening”, playwright and performer Celestial Zenith invites her audie …Read more