Playwright and director Edward Einhorn has been fashioning his own brand of absurdism and intellectual inquiry in the New York theater for more than twenty years. His latest play, City of Glass, is a stage adaptation of Paul Auster’s celebrated 1985 …Read more

As Edmond Rostand’s famously big-nosed romantic who is capable of dispatching a hundred sword-wielding opponents, yet can’t quite work up the nerve to tell a beautiful girl he loves her, actor Gabriel Barre exudes a sort of world-weariness that seems …Read more

The classic operatic double feature, Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic chivalry) and Pagliacci (the clowns) is almost as sure as La Bohème to please Italian opera fans and newcomers alike. In fact, each of these short operas is almost never performed with …Read more

“…They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and its themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch.” Rod Serling, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A new internet game is disrupting the order (or rather, the appearance of order) of an …Read more

Does this sound familiar? A pompous, overtly religious moralizer prepares to run for political office only to be revealed as a hypocrite. Satirization of religious and moral hypocrisy rears its head once again in Molière’s classic play Tartuffe, free …Read more

Most operas, whether comic or tragic, depict passionate romantic love. Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser explores a different kind of passion, that of a religious journey. It concerns the poet Tannhäuser, who, at the opera’s beginning has been hanging out …Read more

“I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.” Giuseppe Verdi The Metropolitan Opera has debuted its new production of Verdi’s masterpiece Otello, based upon the great tragedy by William …Read more

By the time she’d reached her mid-twenties, Jessie Bear was overweight and filled with self-loathing. Stepping on the bathroom scale was a painful experience. One day, after experiencing periods of thirst, fatigue and frequent urination she stepped o …Read more

There was a time in which stage magic was larger than life and could only be seen in person. If one wanted to experience the art of illusion one had to go where its practitioners worked their wonders. And if one wanted to see some of the greatest mag …Read more

When tragedy happens, survivors and family members of victims often become obsessed with finding out who was at fault. Who let this horrible thing happen? One such tragedy occurred during WW2 when 173 people were crushed to death in the air raid shel …Read more