Our first love may fade over the years, but it never truly goes away. In his original play the lighthouse invites the storm, titled after Malcolm Lowry’s first collection of poetry, Josh Drimmer explores what happens when one willingly revisits those …Read more
Having been so impressed with The Gallery Players’ previous production, the lighthearted and ensemble-focused The Baker’s Wife, I was somewhat taken aback by the company’s darker and disjointed production of Evita. Not that the two shows should be co …Read more
In the same vein as the 2010 musical satire Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, New World Stages’ Clinton the Musical takes one of America’s most controversial presidential terms and adds singing and dancing to exaggerated caricatures of historical figures …Read more
For playwright Oscar Speace, Janka is a very personal production. Produced by Roust Theatre Company, it regards his mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, and the trials she endured in order to give him and his brother the opportunities she herself wa …Read more
Now more than ever, the relationship between men and women threatens to explode into an all out war. Thankfully Robert Dubac still feels that we should be able to laugh at the flaws both sexes carry with them. Produced by Urban Stages and running in …Read more
Does the truth really hurt, or does it make you laugh? As Robert Dubac illustrates in his one-man show The Book of Moron, presented by Urban Stages, the answer is a bit of both. Not to be confused with the similarly titled musical – “If you came here …Read more
Jack Karp’s Irreversible, playing now at the 14th Street Y theater, concerns the Oppenheimer brothers as they race against the clock and the Nazis to construct “the gadget,” the atomic bomb that would go on to famously end the war and bring in a new …Read more
Imagine that you’ve lived in the dark your whole life when one day the lights are suddenly turned on. Would it disturb you to see that the world is nothing like how you imagined it? That’s the question put forth in Jack Karp’s brilliant opening monol …Read more
The Baker’s Wife is a lesser known musical written by Joseph Stein (The Fiddler on the Roof) with music by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked) that enjoyed only a brief run in London’s West End in 1989 and has yet to be produced for a Broadway stage, t …Read more
Antony Raymond’s original play Pretty Babies, presented by Elsinore County Theater Company at 13th Street Rep Theater, introduces us over time to six characters who use each other for their own personal gains, all while justifying to themselves that …Read more