Patrick Burns is a raconteur to be reckoned with. His autobiographical cabaret, From Foster Care to Fabulous, playing at the New York International Fringe Festival’s lounge-y Venue #5 (a basement bar and concert space called Drom), details his travai …Read more

Leah Nanako Winkler is a New York-based playwright, but before that, she made a home in Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her work is consistently playful, painfully frank and delights in skewering stereotypes and cliches — often by amplifyin …Read more

It’s hard to divorce the music of John Williams from the moments it underscores on screen. An evening of the composer’s music presented at the close of the New York Pops’ season went a bit further, contending that Williams’ collaborations with Steven …Read more

Anne Washburn’s plays are not timid about big ideas. In Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play she wrangled with the nature of received storytelling; in The Internationalist she meditated on the foibles of human communication with the conceit of a fabricate …Read more

Bus stops sure have changed since Inge’s day. The action of Martyna Majok’s Ironbound, now playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in a co-production with Women’s Project Theater, all occurs around a bus bench in Elizabeth, New Jersey and its main …Read more

Say what you will about Donny, he’s a showman. A teen magician, Donny (played by the magnetic Harry Farmer) is deluded in his abilities, he’s blinkered to anything beyond the scope of his act, he lacks the ability to connect with others or glean thei …Read more

One of the theaters where I — and incidentally, playwright Frank Winters — went to college was always a bit of a fixer upper. Shoddy stagecraft from the many shows in rep littered the floor. The fire curtain had huge tears through it. Finally, my s …Read more

Once a cause célèbre for its brutal subject matter, Phillip Ridley’s electrifying Mercury Fur is celebrating its tenth year with considerably more acceptance at the New Group. One of the play’s stars, Jack DiFalco, plays Darren, an innocent in a dyst …Read more

Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays is nearing the finish line with the opening of its third and final Series, C, last week. This leg of the race is just as varied and interesting as its predecessors, featuring CD store employees …Read more

Two-handers surrounding taboo, cultural and generational crossed-lines and a bit of frothy spectacle and are on order for the last installment of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon of One-Act Plays. Now boasting a special Drama Desk for supporting ne …Read more