Director Yvan Greenberg explores the rampant narcissism and blurred lines between what is public and private in modern society in Genet Porno, opening September 9 at HERE Arts Center. The play transports Divine, the cross-dressing gay prostitu …Read more
In the 1990s, two 20-something, struggling actors from Boston wrote a screenplay in order to work. In 1997, the longtime best friends won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and their success was mythologized by Hollywood into a fairy tale …Read more
Planning to enjoy a simple right of passage turns into a nightmare in the Spanish horror flick Para Elisa. Directed by novelist-turned-director Juanra Fernández, the movie stars Ona Casamiquela as Ana, a Fine Arts major about to graduate from the uni …Read more
Grief and mental illness take center stage in the drama Coping, written by Jacob Marx Rice and directed by Anna Strasser. In this play at the New York International Fringe Festival, a group of four friends gather to come to terms with the sudden deat …Read more
What would a wealthy, white widow of a certain age do if someone she had never met before claimed to be the secret love child of her beloved, departed daughter? What if the person in question was a young black man? This is the scenario in which theme …Read more
Acclaimed storyteller and New York Times published essayist Lisa Lewis’ SCHOOLED gets the New York International Fringe Festival treatment this year, and it is not to be missed. The three-character play sees a polished cast duke it out in a thrilling …Read more
One of theater’s greatest gifts is that it can externalize the internal, connecting people by articulating emotions that are impossible to convey in ordinary life with ordinary language. John Patrick Shanley’s comedy of anguish, the dreamer examines …Read more
The Attic Theater Company’s new Off-Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s 1986 play, the dreamer examines his pillow, is a thought provoking examination of love, sex and how the subconscious mind is influenced by our parents no matter how hard w …Read more
Mala Mala, the beautiful documentary by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, is an intimate journey into the complicated and vibrant lives of a group of transgender individuals, and drag queens in Puerto Rico. The well-rounded cast includes trans activis …Read more
War between the sexes has been raging since the beginning of time, and with the proliferation of technology and the rampant narcissism that comes with it, things have not necessarily advanced for the better. In fact, they’ve gotten a whole lot messie …Read more
