For ten glorious years, from 1938 to 1948, Greenwich Village nightclub Café Society was the place to be for jazz musicians, comics and lovers alike. Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Zero Mostel, Sid Caesar and many others got t …Read more

All That Dies and Rises is a mashup of movement and words sprawled over a blank white stage devised by physical theatre company Cloud of Fools and directed by James Rutherford of theatre company M-34. Taking excerpts from the works of famous writers …Read more

Snow White as a sexual being. Walt Disney never saw it coming. Theaterlab’s Snow in the Living Room inserts sensuality and loss of innocence into its deconstruction of the classic fairy tale. There is no mention of dwarves here, yet the number seven …Read more

Although Christopher Marlowe was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, and was said to have influenced the Bard, he never achieved the same renown as Shakespeare due to his sudden death at age 29. If he had lived, he might have been as prominent, if …Read more

A man stands alone on stage under a single light. He is speaking fast, wringing his hands, his eyes unfocused, head twitching excitedly. He is talking about the future of music, how one day, what a composer thinks up will automatically be transmitted …Read more

Grab a pint of your favorite ale and go UNDER St. Marks for a little time traveling with Wish Experience’s “drinkeractive comedy,” A Brief History of Beer. Set aboard the “Quantum Pint Machine” (yes, really) in a sort of Star Trek parody, complete wi …Read more

Two lost souls meet up for a night of redemption in YOLO! Productions presentation of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Danny (Michael Micalizzi) and Roberta (Nairoby Otero), each more screwed up than the other, are the only conscio …Read more

Brad Zimmerman turns his failure at a traditional success story into a great running joke for his one-man stand-up show, My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy. Most mothers dream of their sons becoming doctors, lawyers, businessmen. Zimmerman spent nea …Read more

Few technologies are as controversial as artificial intelligence. Some laud it as a major breakthrough in modern science, changing the course of human history for the better. Others may be repulsed by it, viewing it as unnatural and cruel and akin to …Read more

The Tempest begins, as always, with a great storm. Instead of complicated sound effects—whooshing gales, pounding rain, waves crashing on sinking ships—the sounds simply come from the vocals of the actors and musicians. Karin Coonrod and Elizabeth Sw …Read more