It might seem like a curious thing for an off-Broadway show to premiere at 11 a.m. on a weekday, but at The Actors Temple Theatre there is a method to such madness. The Love Note, a new musical written by Gail Phaneuf and directed by Russell Garrett, …Read more

I heard it said once that theater is everywhere, but I don’t know if I ever really invested in that corny platitude until last Friday, when I had the pleasure of seeing a truly moving piece of stagecraft miles away from the lights of Broadway in a ch …Read more

For a dose of very adult Halloween entertainment (seriously, leave the kids at home for this one), I wholeheartedly recommend that your get your costumed butt over to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo and snag tickets to one of the final performances of T …Read more

Buzz, that juicy, onomatopoetic word with so many meanings: insect noise, bustling activity, excited gossip. That last one might become especially apropos for Buzz, the new play by novelist and founding editor of n+1 magazine, Benjamin Kunkel. Before …Read more

Watching The Belle of Amherst at the Westside Theater, I found myself reminded of a line in a Bob Dylan song where he rasps, “people tell me it’s a sin/to know and feel too much within.” Enter Emily Dickinson, The Belle herself, that mysterious figur …Read more

Sometimes it’s not so simple to get your voice heard. Sometimes you have to fight for it. And that’s exactly what the EstroGenius Festival has been doing for fifteen years. Despite losing their home with theater company Manhattan Theater Source in 20 …Read more

Part of the thrill of interviewing people involved with the theater is getting an insider’s glimpse into the hectic day to day of life on and around the stage. I caught up with producer Andi Cohen on Monday night after I saw the aptly titled “Andi’s …Read more

It turns out, as I discovered last night at The York Theatre’s “Musicals in Mufti” performance of BIG, sometimes being forced to eat your words can be an entirely wonderful experience. I arrived at the theater unfamiliar with the term “Mufti” but Jam …Read more

When I found out that Chemistry, the play I recently attended as part of the Fringe Encore Series, was about mental illness, I was apprehensive at best. Through experiences with family and friends, I understand mental illness firsthand, am all too aw …Read more

A genuine Italian pizza joint is nothing if not a multi-purpose, American space, a place for family get-togethers, meetings, reunions, casual lunches. So it’s pretty cheeky that Sean J. Quinn set his middle-class, dark comedy, Money Grubbin’ Whores, …Read more