Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping is about an emotional wilderness rather than a literal one. Across 25 years, two women remain caught in a cycle of love, denial, and recrimination, returning again and again to a childhood tent that somehow proves spa …Read more

On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at night in order to watch five plays by the actor and playwrig …Read more

  Camping is the most I’ve ever cried during a play that’s set outdoors. Based on the title, I thought the show might have something to do with nature – you know, the wonderment of seeing the stars in the firmament, all that hippie-dippie, woods …Read more

In playwright Catherine Weingarten’s I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappé!!!, a young woman’s craving for a limited-edition and highly caloric Starbucks beverage becomes a sharp and satirical exploration of wedding culture, romantic delirium, and the fantasies …Read more

Relationships make people crazy, and sometimes, in order to get your sanity back, you have to do something a little crazy yourself. To quote Lena Dunham from her recently released memoir: “Reader, sometimes you see two doors in life, one marked NORMA …Read more

You might think it’s impossible to turn a melodrama about young women, struggling with mental illness in a psychiatric facility, into musical theater. Well, yes and no. Girl, Interrupted, a musical adaptation of the 1999 film, starring now at the Pub …Read more

There are several different levels of writerly craft on display in New Born, a program of three monologues at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theater. Weirdly, they were all written by the same person, British playwright Ella Hickson. The monologues are perfo …Read more

When I was a kid, I listened to Broadway cast albums over and over until I knew not just the songs – their melodies and lyrics – but every intonation, breath, and pause in the performances. Those recordings were treasured possessions, like dog-eared, …Read more

What do you do when you can’t figure out what, exactly, was your dad’s problem? That’s the central question in Broken Snow, a slowly burning thriller playing at Theater 71, written by Ben Andron, directed by Colin Hanlon and starring Tony Danza – yes …Read more

Love transcends death. So do estates and trusts, intellectual property rights, and your grandmother’s ugly furniture. It’s just our actual bodies and consciousnesses that go kaput. (But don’t worry – Sam Altman is planning to disrupt death, as soon a …Read more