Midway through Erik Ehn’s latest experimental drama Clover, the character of Mamie (played by Laura E. Johnston) reminds the audience that Emmett Till’s murderers sold the story of their hate crime to a publication for four thousand dollars. “This pl …Read more

Moving down Christopher Street toward the New Ohio Theater with my partner, our moods lifted as we watched young people scurry excitedly into Stonewall. For those who fall somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, Christopher Street is more than a place to gr …Read more

Playwright Dan LeFranc’s Rancho Viejo explores life’s big questions through the residents of a small town in Southern California. With direction by David Aukin, the production at Playwrights Horizons is a three-act, joyously absurd search for the mea …Read more

In the opening scene of Michael Harren’s The Animal Show, the solo performer describes his veganism as a pair of “rose-colored glasses.” The animals he services at the Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary (where he was a resident artist) do not celebrate …Read more

If your theatrical preferences include sweat, exalted language, spanks, and Daddy Yankee dance breaks, look no further than One-Eighth Theaterʼs production of The Maids, now playing at INTAR. Obie-winner Jose Riveraʼs adaptation brings Jean Genetʼs p …Read more

Alzheimer’s patients require a special sort of tenderness. The smallest of daily rituals beg the boundless encouragement, patience, and love of the caregiver. Blossom, the story of an aging painter in the last seasons of his life, paints the plight o …Read more

There couldn’t have been a better setting for Michael John LaChiusa’s First Daughter Suite than the Public, except, maybe, the White House. The Anspacher Theater, with its white columns darting up from a house that curls around the playing space, pro …Read more

When Betsy Morgan bursts onstage as a frantic Tricia Nixon at the height of an emotional breakdown, uncertain if her wedding is a cover-up for the Watergate scandal, we’re startled. We’ve seen this iconic wedding dress before, only its wearer was sli …Read more

There is a kind of achievable magic in theatre that only the most committed audiences will appreciate. It consists of a performer inviting us into a world that is not spectacular in the traditional sense, but intimate, vivid, and exciting. In the fir …Read more

Playwright Colby Day and director Andrew J. Scoville, along with the cast and crew of Kitchen Sink Experiment(s), are inviting us over for dinner…and breakfast the next morning…and all the domestic distress in between. This site-specific voyeur d …Read more