Magician Helder Guimarães is the youngest winner of the prestigious World Championship of Closeup Card Magic. He was awarded this trophy in Stockholm in 2006 by performing a routine so impossible that magicians are still talking about it. He went on …Read more

Amelia Earhart has been a fascinating figure for adults and kids alike ever since her disappearance in 1937, and as a subject for heroic storytelling there is no sign of her slowing down. The children’s play Amelia and Her Paper Tigers does more than …Read more

Shakespeare’s Ophelia appears, all alone, to reveal her impressions regarding the goings on in Elsinore in While Ophelia’s Korean Drum Weeps, now running during the 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival. This unique performance is a solo …Read more

Theatre fans have a marvelous opportunity to experience a highly unusual musical from Japan currently running at The Flamboyan Theatre at The Clemente as part of The 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival. The Legend of Oni is a theatrica …Read more

One of Greek drama’s most powerful developments was the agon, or contest. Typically this means a contest of wills, a battle between two strong individuals, both of whom are justified, either morally or legally. Sometimes the agon intensifies with nei …Read more

The Healing, presented by Theater Breaking Through Barriers, is a play about the aftermath of a life devoted to faith. Zoe, a woman who spent her life in the Christian Science Church mentoring children with disabilities, has suddenly died alone in he …Read more

Two young women from Ipswitch, England embark on separate yet similar adventures. They journey halfway around the world to marry dedicated soldiers engaged in righteous conflicts, and in so doing they assume new and dramatically different lives. But …Read more

“At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.” Tim O’Brien Theatre, like all art, is at its most intense when the boundary between fiction and real life i …Read more

Donizetti’s opera about the last days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I has not been seen on the New York stage in more than thirty years. When a new production directed by Sir David McVicar premiered last Thursday, it was greeted with more applause, …Read more

“Don’t worry. I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. …or am I?” Martin McDonagh’s first new play in five years, Hangmen, is currently enjoying a very successful run in London’s West End. The hallmarks of McDonagh’s work — violence, gallows humo …Read more