How can you trust a man who lies about doing yoga? In the intimate one-man-show Touch, directed by Jonathan Silverstein and written by playwright Kenny Finkle, the actor Anthony Rapp delivers the life story of an unreliable narrator. Anthony Rapp, al …Read more

Why do couples stay together? Mutual comfort? Desire? Self-destructive neurotic drives? Is it because nobody else knows how to make that Cajun chicken alfredo just the way you like it? Or is it, as a character in ENTANGLED: 12 Scenes in a Circle K of …Read more

Let’s say you have all the money in the world. You’ve ruthlessly built a global corporate tech empire from nothing; it’s taken you your whole life. Legions of employees do the hokey-pokey when you snap your fingers. Presidents are at your beck and ca …Read more

Popesical!, a musical by Adam Overett, is set during the papal conclave, the election in which cardinals vote for a new pope, and it features a motley crew of cardinals who are put through successively absurd tests to prove their fitness for the papa …Read more

Although the character she plays is a credulous, simpering, unworldly, clueless ninny, actress Andrea Alton has the unflappable confidence and skill that makes her one woman show Possum Creek at the New York International Fringe Festival a delight to …Read more

Popesical: what a great title. It’s succinct; it’s informative. You know that what you’re going to see will be an irreverent, gleefully offensive satire of Catholic tradition, along the lines of a Fringe-budget Book of Mormon. Director and composer A …Read more

Now in its 24th season, the National Asian-American Theater Company (NAATCO) is presenting Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets’ Depression-era play about the Bergers, a Jewish family, living in the Bronx and contending with financial hardship and each ot …Read more

Clifford Odets’ Depression-era classic, Awake and Sing!, now playing at the Public Theater, is about the Bergers, a lower middle class Jewish family living in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. The conceit in this production, put on by the National A …Read more

Productions of Oliver Goldsmith’s 18th-century classic She Stoops to Conquer are usually lushly produced with great swaths of Georgian drapery swooping behind the furniture and over the actresses, visual elements that are part and parcel of the play’ …Read more

Singles In Agriculture, performed at the Brick, takes place on the last night of a national mixer for unmarried farmers, where Joel (Graeme Gillis) and Priscilla (Abby Rosebrock) have wound up together in Joel’s hotel room and are dancing around the …Read more