Emerging Playwright-winner Greg Kalleres is the writer behind the NY Times Critic’s Pick “Honky”.  His one-act plays have won honors at the Samuel French Festival, Turnip Festival, and Fusion Theatre One Act Play Festival.  This comedic writer has al …Read more

Luke Harlan is an educator, performer, and, most notably, the director of The New York Times Critic’s Pick “Honky”, returning for its second run at Urban Stages.  The play offers a darkly comedic look at the intersections between race, advertising, a …Read more

A native of the South, I’d never heard of the word gentrification until I moved to New York City — and even then I didn’t fully understand its harrowing effects.  To someone from the outside it’s easy to miss the many gems that are fixed in place wh …Read more

“Stealin’ Home” by Fred Newman is an imagined exploration of what the heroic icon Jackie Robinson was like when he wasn’t on the field.  And for those of you at a loss now that baseball season is over, now’s the perfect time to catch this play at the …Read more

I’m in awe of everyone who contributed to the production of “Two Boys”, a brand new opera by Nico Muhly now playing at the Metropolitan Opera House.  Muhly, the youngest composer ever commissioned by the Met, more than justified the honor with the de …Read more

Charles Weldon, a veteran actor of stage, film, and television, is known for the memorable roles he created in “Stir Crazy”, “The River Niger”, “A Soldier’s Play”, and “New York Undercover” — among many, many others. He has also been a member of the …Read more

2013 has been a great year for Director/Producer/Actor Jonathan McCrory.  Named the new Director of Theatre Arts Program at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre earlier this year, he now gears up to launch NBT’s 45th Season with the New York …Read more

JC Lee is at home writing for a variety of mediums: he has credits in theater, film, and TV — and can even be found on the inter-webs blogging, posting, and tweeting.  This Juilliard graduate is definitely one to watch, and he is rapidly making a na …Read more

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” on Broadway banishes any thoughts about your daily life and whisks you away to dream in its fairytale world from the moment the orchestra starts to tune their instruments till you’re standing on your feet givi …Read more

I never imagined in middle school that I’d get to see a fully realized stage production of “Anthem”, a novel that blew my mind as an adolescent.  I therefore felt fortunate to see Austin Shakespeare’s take on the novel, adapted by Jeff Britting from …Read more