It’s no small thing for Tom Dulack to claim that putting on The Road to Damascus at 59E59 has been “the best theater experience of his] entire life.” A professor of English Literature at University of Connecticut and a novelist to boot, Dulack has be …Read more

The Road to Damascus, Tom Dulack’s new play at 59E59 Theaters, is explosive. Quite literally; the play opens on a scene of crisis. Suicide bombers have attacked Miami and New York City near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral (an unsettlin …Read more

Maggie Bofill, as she’ll tell you, is an actress first. Used to being in the spotlight, it wasn’t until recent years that she was pushed to pursue her talents off stage and screen, putting on her first play, Face Cream, in 2009 at Ensemble Studio The …Read more

It made sense that playwright Kyoung H. Park took a moment before his play, Tala, to introduce the venue in which we sat. Founded over a century ago, The University Settlement in the Lower East Side is one of the very first community centers, a place …Read more

Most of us remember all too well the tender, teenage clashes with mom and dad: yes, I’ll call you when I get there; no, we won’t be drinking; yes, I’ll put on a scarf. In her new play, About Face, now playing at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg thro …Read more

Theater, I like to believe, is in essence an experimental art form. Outside of Hollywood’s bounds of studio guidelines and million dollar budgets, it is a completely free space to test boundaries, play with language, and say something that’s never be …Read more

On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of sitting down with a few of the women behind About Face, a new immigrant drama on stage at Williamsburg’s The Brick. I spoke with playwright Essie Martsinkovsky, director Anna Strasser, and actress Charity Schu …Read more

Currently on stage at the intimate Access Theater in SoHo is What We Know, a contemporary American retelling of Chekhov’s play Three Sisters. The tale focuses on three sisters, all raised in “The City,” now forced to reside in the family’s country ho …Read more

Walking home from Dixon Place, the “laboratory for performance” in the Lower East Side, I’m not sure if I was any closer to understanding exactly what a ‘War Lesbian’ is than I was when I walked into the theater. And yet, what transpired over the cou …Read more

For those who don’t speak the language, it might seem like quite an intimidating fact that the bulk of Migguel Anggelo’s performance at Joe’s Pub, Between Dreams/Entre Sueños, is in Spanish. However, by the time his hour or so on stage was up, the ba …Read more