Those up for for Shakespeare al fresco without the line might look West for Hudson Warehouse’s Henry IV Part I now playing by The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park. The jaunty, at times hyper-violent and always vibrant production tran …Read more

This month, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s second round of one-acts, Series B, opens right as the crowd is still catching its breath from Series A. This go around features a Global Warming Comedy of Errors, a poetic meditation on contemporary America, an …Read more

Ensemble Studio Theatre is heading into June with Series B of its 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays. The four, short works showing here through June 21 (and running concurrently through June 6th with the excellent Series A) do their strongest work in qu …Read more

The first of three evenings of short works presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre is something the theatre could use more of. Running for 35 years, it’s plain to see why the Marathon has such great legs: if variety is the spice of life, EST’s given us …Read more

Ensemble Studio Theatre is kicking off its 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays this week with Series A. The Hell’s Kitchen hub is, as always, chock-a-block with emerging and established talent. I met with the six writers of the first leg right on the cusp …Read more

Godlight Theatre Company’s Cool Hand Luke begins how it ends. In the Brechtian-mode, it doesn’t pull any punches as to where Luke Jackson, convict, plumber and liberator, will end. A boot hill grave is written in this man’s stars and so, when the cho …Read more

Brooklyn-based playwright Cory Finley’s eerie domestic comedy The Feast is playing now through April 5th at The Flea Theater.  But though the play, receiving its world premiere in the TriBeCa venue, is new to the boards, Mr. Finley’s work is anything …Read more

It starts, like many nightmares, with toilet trouble. In Cory Finley’s horror-comedy The Feast, a world premiere at the Flea Theater, live-in couple Anna and Matt’s relationship takes a turbulent turn when the head starts making noise. What follows i …Read more

The Great White Way and graphic design have had a long, storied love affair, from the simple lines of a Hirschfeld caricature to the show-selling broadsheets, cab toppers and streetlamp pennants that seem to grab the man on the street by his sharp la …Read more

Maggie Bofill’s new comedy Winners is an intimately scoped, ambitiously plotted, tender screaming match, and broadly nuanced character piece — and boy does that seem like a lot of paradoxes. We are trafficking in familiar stories here. Father, Brian …Read more