To enter Taryn Simon’s monumental installation, An Occupation of Loss, currently on view at the Park Avenue Armory, the audience must climb an outdoor staircase to arrive on the mezzanine level, where they can gaze down at an eerie constellation of 4 …Read more

I don’t know about you, but lately my social media feed has been exceptionally hostile. Peppered in amongst the usual think pieces and cat videos are comment exchanges that an outside observer might assume were between mortal enemies, but are ostensi …Read more

The Woodsman, adapted from L. Frank Baum’s iconic Oz canon, is a prime example of theater that is bold precisely because it’s a bit old-fashioned. This production from STRANGEMEN & CO. confidently establishes and maintains their intended aestheti …Read more

“We’re all pretty familiar these days with performances happening in non-traditional spaces,” says James Hillier, Artistic Director of the London-based theater company Defibrillator in his director’s note for Insignificance, the odd production curren …Read more

I recently spent some time with a friend’s three-year-old daughter, and watched the girl playing with a baby doll in a toy stroller. I noticed the tender seriousness with which she cared for her inanimate child, scolding it occasionally as she maneuv …Read more

I went into Early Morning Opera’s The Institute of Memory (TIMe), the captivating new play by Lars Jan, with two misconceptions. I’ll start with the first, which was swiftly and easily set to right and return to the second later on – I had been prono …Read more

The broad, vast stage of the Ellen Stewart Theatre cast in blue light, with huge fabric tubes standing upright like stalks of bamboo, a massive disembodied hand hovering mid-air over the musicians in the upstage corner. This was the striking image th …Read more

Walking through the East Village, I found myself thinking about my bygone college days gallivanting down 4th Street for one-woman shows, drinking in dive bars and grabbing late-night fried chicken from the now shuttered Mama’s Food Shop. My wandering …Read more

At times literally incomprehensible, but consistently engrossing, Chase: What Matters Most? is the utterly fascinating new play by the award-winning ANIMALS performance group commissioned by and currently presented at Dixon Place through October 31st …Read more

Topher Payne’s moving comedy, Perfect Arrangement, presented by Primary Stages at the Duke on 42nd Street will appeal to a broad audience with its sharp dialogue and beautiful visuals, and that’s important, because this plucky piece of theater is a T …Read more