In the Amoralists’ Utility, written by Emily Schwend and directed by Jay Stull at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, life is neither cruel nor glamorous. Days are merely an accumulation of hours that must be waded through so we can wake up and do i …Read more
Sanctuary presents an 80-minute opportunity to share dismay at what often seems like the constant state of violence and war we live in. The one-woman play, written and performed by Susanne Sulby and directed by Stephen Stahl, lends a voice to the fee …Read more
On the second floor of a nondescript building in midtown Manhattan, metal folding chairs lined the walls of a drab classroom-like room. The audience was sparse and could have been waiting for a high school play or amateur improv show to begin. In fac …Read more
Buster Poindexter quietly stepped onto the stage. Butler, Bernstein, & The Hot 9, the musical collaboration featured for the 3rd annual holiday variety show at Town Hall, was already in full swing. Poindexter, the evening’s host, lingered in the …Read more
Fourteen-year-old Natalie Marx (Jake Lipman) is on quest for justice. Inquiring about a potential summer vacation, Natalie’s mother writes to a quaint inn in Vermont. A reply comes back from the proprietor that “our guests who feel most comfortable h …Read more
A sprawling old mansion looms out of the darkness, and the surrounding homes in this historic neighborhood are serenely quiet. No police sirens invade the solitude, nor are there weekend crowds spilling out onto the sidewalks. This is not the Manhatt …Read more
Radical Evolution’s The Golden Drum Year, directed by Simón Adinia Hanukai, will appeal to everyone who has ever loved New York but suspected the city didn’t love them back. The play opens on the eve of 2011. Eugene (Allan K. Washington) has just mov …Read more
With a sold-out FringeNYC run, two Moth StorySLAM wins, and a book (Alice in Tumblr-land) published by Penguin, Tim Manley is at the top of the storytelling craft. His one-man show, Feelings, weaves together the uneasy years in his twenties when he c …Read more
Following a sold-out run at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival, Your Love, Our Musical! is heading for an additional five shows in the Fringe Encore Series at the SoHo Playhouse. In each performance, Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman choos …Read more
Night of the Living, part of the New York International Fringe Festival, tells the story of Mia (Belle Caplis) and Marshall (Eric Kuehnemann), a married couple making their way in the aftermath of an epidemic that has wiped out the human race. The pl …Read more