Cagebirds, the David Campton play written in 1972, is as auspicious today as it ever was. Six women, representing as many walks of life as the subway platform at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, are in a locked room together, each absorbed in her own p …Read more
Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Paul Zindel’s black comedy And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little is hitting the New York theatre scene. Directed by Shay Gines, this work centers around three women who, with a dead mother and long-absent father, com …Read more
Uncle Abram: A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya could just as easily have been named “Uncle Vanya Gets Woke”. Set on a plantation in south-central Missouri, this adaptation by Ryan Victor “Little Eagle” Pierce visits the residents in the Reconstruction peri …Read more
The most striking thing about Her Opponent is it is a show without characters, acting, or writing. It is also not a show. What it is, is a mirror. And an ingenious one at that. Her Opponent is an exact replica of four segments of each of the three pr …Read more
Onomatopoeia Theatre Company’s Of Mice and Men is a great production whether you know Steinbeck’s work by heart or are learning about it for the very first time. It is true to the text and conveys the complexity of men’s friendships in a way rarely s …Read more
Haram! Iran! is an emotional roller coaster well worth the ride. Based on a true story, the play by Jay Paul Deratany depicts the trial and conviction of two teenagers when they make a genuine connection with each other after being assigned as study …Read more
The Gallery Players’ rendition of Sweet Bird of Youth is all the beautiful raw tragedy at the heart of Tennessee Williams’ works, which is perhaps the greatest gift an audience can get. Under the flawless direction of Jesse Marchese, these actors del …Read more
No matter how high your expectations are for Isaac Mizrahi’s conception of Prokofiev’s classic Peter & The Wolf, they will be exceeded, and you will be delighted. Set in New York, Mizrahi’s Peter & the Wolf tells of how young Peter, against h …Read more
The Ma-Yi Theater Company’s Among the Dead has officially raised the bar for all theater productions. I write this review knowing there are not enough words to do justice to playwright Hansol Jung’s masterpiece. The writing, the direction (by Ma-Yi A …Read more
Comprised of two separate plays with the central theme of Hurricane Katrina, Lost Voices shows the human level of the ravages of ever-present climate change. Each of the plays has a cast of three, and the set from the first play is deconstructed to m …Read more
