Recently, I saw Caroline V. McGraw’s The Bachelors at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, produced by guest company Lesser America. While I thoroughly enjoyed the play, it is certainly a complicated affair: the script utilizes the language of modern …Read more

In the spirit of full disclosure, I should admit a personal bias that made it very difficult for me bring even a modicum of objectivity to this article: I unequivocally, unironically, absolutely freaking love Bernadette Peters. I’ve been enamored sin …Read more

January is here, and many of us are still recovering from the two to six days we were forced to spend with our families over the holidays. Whether it’s the tone your mother used when she asked about your current skincare regimen, your stepfather’s in …Read more

Fourteen years ago in Ireland, an aunt and three nieces locked themselves in their home and began a forty day hunger strike that ended in all of their deaths. While some say it was a political action, others suspect they did it for puritanical religi …Read more

Don’t let Subhah Agarwal’s baby face or self-described social awkwardness fool you: she is easily one of the funniest and hardest working comics on the scene today. Slowly but surely she’s getting the recognition she deserves – last year she was feat …Read more

Last week, I had the pleasure of reviewing Lisa Flanagan’s one-woman Fringe Festival show La Donna Improvvisata. In it, Flanagan improvises a 60-minute opera with nothing but her wits and a pianist, and does so effortlessly. I strongly recommend chec …Read more

I had the pleasure of catching the very impressive Lisa Flanagan this week in La Donna Improvvisata, a show that makes improvising an entire one-person opera look remarkably easy. It begins with Flanagan asking the audience to choose an opera charact …Read more

Do you ever see someone many years younger than you who demonstrates so much talent, charisma, and self-possession that you just sort of resent them for it? Like, where they’re so good at something – and so young – that it makes you hate them? Like, …Read more

Allow me to tell you something that nobody told me: 2014 – When We Were Idiots: A Comedy Walking Tour at the Fringe Central theatre, is really, legitimately, actually a walking tour. You may be thinking, “How did you not know it was a walking tour? T …Read more

Whenever I read that an off-off Broadway theater company is putting on an eighty-year-old farce, my face instinctually contorts into the most apathetic, judgmental, completely involuntary eye-roll that it can possibly form. I don’t say this with prid …Read more