If it has ever seemed to you that the typical “coming of age” trope is getting a bit stale, then Jon Provan’s two hour anthology of adolescent growth and development will revive your interest in the genre. In Coming of Age, simplistic, yet powerful d …Read more
Tuesday night, as part of the Brick’s ongoing Comic Book Theater Festival, Patrice Miller presented Out of Frame: Dance + Comics. The play was a choreographed, interactive look at the fun side of comic book favorites as the performers twisted, tangoe …Read more
What would you do if you knew that one day you’d suffer a terribly paralyzing injury, and that you had the ability to stop it? Would you travel back in time to kidnap yourself? Because we know someone who would and she wrote a play about it: RETCONt …Read more
I would seriously make Apathy Girl my superhero name, but unfortunately don’t care enough to ever become a superhero in the first place. Thankfully, our titular character is more emotionally available, or else we wouldn’t have a show to review here. …Read more
We’ve all been there before. At one point or another in our creatively genius lives we’ve had an idea or inspiration that we felt was so personal to our own identity, no one else would understand. That is the story of Alex, who along with his brothe …Read more
This past Saturday in the midst of Brooklyn’s hottest mixed media festival, a different type of festival was taking place in Williamsburg at the Brick Theater. In full swing, The Comic Book Theater Festival continued to rave on with a new show for gr …Read more
As we spend the month of June settling into summer, The Brick, a quaintly restored theater in newly renovated Williamsburg, prepares to bring New York comic buffs out for their second edition of the Comic Book Theater Festival. Rounding out their fir …Read more
If there is a trump card over satire, it would have to be satire that is smart, witty, and honest. Those qualities, along with superb musical talent, intuitive comedic timing, and sharp direction, encompass the production of “Forbidden Broadway: Aliv …Read more
