What’s a circus without the clowns? Clowns fill the ring with their quirky energy and humorous antics. In the case of the new Big Apple Circus show, there wouldn’t even be a circus without one particular clown: Joel Jeske. Jeske created and wrote the …Read more
With three major Tony Awards and a 12-year run—half of it on Broadway—under its belt, Avenue Q has the credentials to make it one of the Theatre District’s most popular musicals. But the real staying power of this uproarious Sesame-Street-meets-Sex-a …Read more
The Big Apple Circus has been entertaining children and adults for almost four decades. I have my own precious memories of seeing the circus as a child, stuffing my face with cotton candy, twirling one of those obnoxious plastic light-up toys, and ma …Read more
There are few workplaces with such bluntly descriptive names as the “kill floor,” the place where cows are killed in a slaughterhouse. This is where the protagonist of LCT3’s Kill Floor, Andy (Marin Ireland), lands her first job after five years in t …Read more
If you’ve ever wondered how busy bartenders juggle all those orders while trying to deal with unsavory customers like frat boys, stumbling drunk girls, and the sad sack regular who constantly regales everyone with his woes, then go see Last Call now …Read more
Cinderella is glittering from head to toe; her fairy godmother approaches, looking like she wants to take a juicy bite out of the younger girl. Homoeroticism abounds – Rodgers and Hammerstein this is not. Company XIV’s Cinderella is a wild party comp …Read more
Woodshed Collective’s newest immersive theatre piece, Empire Travel Agency, is a bizarre and exhilarating quest through the streets of Lower Manhattan. This theatrical experience takes four people at a time on a “Hidden City Excursion” to various sit …Read more
The topic of suicide has never received such a puzzling treatment as in the intricate mystery thriller The Black Book. This head scratcher of a play may be convoluted at times, but it is utterly mesmerizing. At first I may have been annoyed at all th …Read more
The magnificent multimedia dance theatre play Pearl, inspired by the life of writer Pearl S. Buck, premiered at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Thursday night. This gorgeous, sweeping epic is directed and choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, …Read more
You really can’t go home again in the dark family comedy Straight Faced Lies at the New York International Fringe Festival. Cathy Ryan (Geraldine Librandi) and her two grown children, Melissa (Dana Domenick) and James (Jacob Thompson), don’t like eac …Read more
