Alice Austen (1866-1952), the fascinating subject of Alice in Black and White currently playing at 59E59 Theaters, was a woman ahead of her time. Born during an era and in a society when there were not many options for women besides becoming a wife a …Read more
The Forest Hills Stadium may have been rained on earlier in the day (audience members were asked to relinquish their umbrellas at the door) but it stayed dry for a concert featuring the New York Pops, the city’s only symphonic orchestra that speciali …Read more
Recent Cutbacks have certainly not cut back on the fun and hilarity in their latest endeavor, Fly, You Fools!, a scene-by-scene reenactment of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Performed by Kyle Schaefer, Nick Abeel, Matt Zambrano an …Read more
Shakespeare’s Othello gets the Jewish treatment in an adaptation by actor-director David Serero, featuring both traditional Judeo-Arabic music and some of Verdi’s operatic score. The production — presented by the American Sephardi Federation, an org …Read more
When an investigative journalist at an unnamed magazine is assigned to cover a case of gang rape and rape culture in general at a prominent university, she finds that reporting the truth is not as black and white as it seems. The play Stet, written b …Read more
Six women endeavor to make feminist pornography in #liberated, a refreshing, enjoyable, often dark comedy by theatre collective The Living Room. The play, conceived and scripted by Lillian Meredith and co-directed by Rachel Karp and Jaki Bradley, bec …Read more
The audience gets a little uncomfortable during The Death of a Black Man (A Walk By) at Theatre for a New City, which is appropriate as the immersive play by Emmy Award-winning writer Ian Ellis James (aka William Electric Black) deals with the very u …Read more
The power dynamics of marriage have never tasted so bitter. With Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and August Strindberg’s The Father playing in repertory at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, two Scandinavian playwrights hold a mirror up to the institutio …Read more
In a rural village in Vietnam lives a young woman named Thao who is a little different. One of many victims of the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange, a deadly chemical used for wiping out wide swaths of jungle in Vietnam in the 1970s to smoke out t …Read more
What’s it like when everything you think you know about your life is slowly slipping away? Extraordinary stage and film actor Frank Langella and the cast of The Father explore the frightening realities of dementia in this gripping play by French play …Read more
