Hard times fall upon a family of farmers in 1949 Idaho. Even though the war has ended, Esther (Lynne McCollough) and her children still await the return of father Forrest from a POW camp in Japan. In the captivating family drama The Twelfth Labor, we …Read more
Say you had a hankering to watch classic Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park. Now say you only had about an hour and wanted way more laughs than the original film provides. Then get your butt to the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT) for Hold On To Your Bu …Read more
When there is chemistry between two people, they sometimes create a little smoke. In the titillating one-act, two-person play Smoke by Kim Davies, the heat generated by the characters gets so intense, you wonder if they’re going to get burned. At a h …Read more
What’s a heartbroken, and lonely artist to do when he can’t get over the death of his beloved three years after she dies? Why, buy a Polaroid camera and revisit all their old familiar places trying to reconstruct their relationship, of course. Direct …Read more
What would a reunion between former cult members look like? Would it be fun? Would it be nostalgic? Would it be scary? Excavation Theater Company’s The Lost Ones, currently showing as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, plays with thi …Read more
Writers of young adult paranormal romance series are currently enjoying their moment in the sun. There are movie deals, action figures and, oh yeah, religious cults based on their books. That is the case, at least, for Justine Drake (Lorinda Lisitza) …Read more
While we all read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in high school, few of us ever experience life imitating art. Such is the case in Brian Sutton’s Searching For Romeo, now at the Alice Griffin Jewel Bow Theatre as part of the New York Musical Theatre …Read more
The line between art and activism has always been blurred, but it was never more so than at Sunday night’s Playwrights Against Hunger gala to benefit City Harvest. The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, a not-for-profit arts festival that supports …Read more
Enchanting fairies, a somnolent princess, an evil curse and, of course, Prince Charming. The Russian National Ballet Theatre, under the artistic direction of Elena Radchenko, held the audience spellbound with its gorgeous production of “The Sleeping …Read more
The Renaissance Faire — a way for people to time travel with the DeLorean — has long been the domain of the outcast. It allows you to enter a fantasy world where women still wear bodices and men carry swords. It offers up such amusements as skits a …Read more
