Award-winning playwright Dan McCormick provides a riveting and thoughtful story that intertwines themes of hope, luck, choices, and unrequited love in The Violin. In this new play at 59E59 Theaters, a priceless 1710 Stradivarius violin is found in th …Read more
The Summer Shorts 2017 festival of new American short plays brings to 59E59 Theaters the work of some of the best American writers around today. Award-winning writers of film, TV, and stage provide a bevy of goodies to delight, inspire, and downrigh …Read more
With a ‘Hey Nonny Nonny’ and a ‘Willow, Willow, Willow,’ the talented ensemble of the famed Simon Studio provides a performance of the work of the Bard to which all future shows must Measure for Measure. The glorious Dining Hall at the illustrious Pl …Read more
As part of celebrating 100 years of Horton Foote, Cherry Lane Theater brings The Traveling Lady to the stage with a cast of experienced and award-winning Broadway and Off-Broadway talent. The story is set in 1950 in a small town in Texas on the day o …Read more
If I could fill this review with synonyms for “brilliant” it still wouldn’t be enough, or do justice to just how good Bastard Jones is. Writer and director Marc Acito and composer/lyricist Amy Engelhardt provide a rock musical extravaganza that stays …Read more
To continually bring new and exciting plays to the forefront of a saturated market is no small feat, but the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Radio Drama Network’s presentation of their 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays Series C manages to do just that. …Read more
A miraculous event in theater occurred when I attended the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Radio Drama Nework’s presentation of their 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays Series B: Each and every one of the five plays presented was outstanding. Their high …Read more
A marriage that should have been. Or, for all intents and purposes, actually already was. But for that matter, was not, but then did so happen anyway in a way that was not marriage but could have been. Please forgive this writer’s poor attempt at an …Read more
A new biographical drama, Adam, now playing at Castillo Theatre, tells the true story of African-American civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a United States congressman from 1945 to 1971. He was a man who knew that mass action was the most …Read more
Kunstler, now playing at 59E59 Theaters, is a fictionalized account of real life American lawyer and civil rights activist William Moses Kunstler, who was known for his politically unpopular clients, such as the Chicago Seven, the Attica prison riots …Read more
