I recently spoke with dancer and aerialist Allison Ulrich, who plays Marie-Claire in Company XIV’s latest baroque-burlesque confection, Nutcracker Rouge, currently on stage at the Irondale Theater in Brooklyn. Ulrich, a graduate of Juilliard where sh …Read more
Recent Cutbacks has paid homage to Jurassic Park (Hold On To Your Butts) and The Lord of the Rings (Fly, You Fools!) with their parody remakes. But they have reached the pinnacle of exclamation point ’90s pop culture with their latest, KEVIN!!!!!, a …Read more
Watching Luke Comer’s multimedia rock odyssey The Portal is kind of like being on someone else’s acid trip, but you wish you were also on drugs. It takes you on one man’s spiritual journey through the desert where he is followed at various times by a …Read more
Watching innovative dance company Pilobolus Dance Theater is like witnessing a gorgeous landscape unfold before your eyes. Except this is a landscape of bodies and the way they use them is astounding. Blending dance, acrobatics and other physical for …Read more
In Company XIV’s latest “baroque burlesque ballet” Paris, Charlotte Bydwell plays a dual role (quite literally) as Zeus the emcee and his other half Fifi, a shy, tuba-playing showgirl. The inventive role requires the actress to wear a half tuxedo, ha …Read more
Have you ever wondered about all the minor characters in the Harry Potter series? Where do they come from? What are their abilities? Why is everyone so focused on the Gryffindors? PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Mag …Read more
Before Jonathan Larson penned one of the greatest American musicals, Rent, he wrote a much smaller, autobiographical musical called Tick, Tick… BOOM! While nowhere near the scale and excitement of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Rent, Tic …Read more
Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt are magnificent in Manhattan Theatre Club’s funny and surprising two-hander Heisenberg, now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Written by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) an …Read more
Children and adults alike will delight in the charming acrobatic adventure Flight, now playing a limited engagement at the Barrow Street Theatre. An adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, Flight takes the unique imagery from the …Read more
Inspired by James Cameron’s epic 2009 fantasy/sci-fi film Avatar, Cirque du Soleil’s new touring show Toruk brings a performance unlike any other to the stage at Barclays Center. Infusing elements of both a standard Cirque du Soleil show and the narr …Read more
