Years ago the fictional TV journalist Murphy Brown (played by Candy Bergen) showed her contempt for pretentious modern art lovers by sneaking a picture drawn by her toddler onto the wall of a famous art gallery. Critics argued about its merits, promp …Read more

Rishi Varma, playwright of the new Off-Broadway show “Sulfur Bottom” has an important message to deliver to his viewers. Factories that promised to bring jobs and prosperity to communities are leaking dangerous chemicals into the ground. People are b …Read more

What makes you laugh? For me, it’s often recognizing a familiar situation that ends with a surprise twist. I wasn’t familiar with the work of comedian Jeff Ross, except that he’s called “The Roastmaster” and he has roasted celebrities, politicians, p …Read more

According to magician Jamie Allan in Amaze Magic, New York, his transplanted show from London’s West End, there are two types of people when it comes to magic -dreamers and skeptics. I am a dreamer. I don’t want to know how the magic works. I just wa …Read more

Four men gather in a small Irish pub. One is the young owner and the other three are regulars with a long history together. Jack (an impressive Dan Butler) regrets choices he made as a young man, leaving him alone and single which is why he urges Bre …Read more

JOY A New True Musical The story of Joy Mangano, a single mom from Long Island who through her tenacity and ingenuity, becomes a millionaire, is inspirational. She created household products and made millions. A 2015 film starring Jennifer Lawrence g …Read more

Rolling Thunder :A Rock Journey How do you describe the horrors of war to an audience through the music of its time? Australian journalist and writer Bryce Hallett undertook the difficult task of conveying the hardships, senselessness and destruction …Read more

Four privileged young men from an elite school are about to participate in the most important debate of their high school career. They will be competing against the girls from their own school, and their topic is “that feminism has failed women.” The …Read more

I rarely go to see a show without having a good sense of what it’s about. Yet that’s exactly what happened recently when I saw the revival of “Heathers The Musical” at New World Stages. I expected a “Mean Girls” where the underdogs win out against th …Read more

At the end of Season 4 of “Hacks,” there’s a rumor that Debra Vance (played by the incredibly funny, talented Jean Smart) is dead. I’m here to report that she isn’t dead. In fact, Smart is alive and well and has just opened the new theater season wit …Read more