“Maybe given my brains and disposition, I’ll immigrate and be a politician.” So says Dorante, the titular fabulist at the center of David Ives’ adaptation of Corneille’s The Liar now playing at Classic Stage Company. I saw it on a drizzly Inauguratio …Read more

In Funeral Doom Spiritual, composer M. Lamar elevates the insurmountable grief of the systemic oppression of Black America into music. Lamar’s work draws from opera, metal, and Negro spirituals to condemn the recent police executions of Black men whi …Read more

The compilers of Shakespeare’s First Folio wrote in their introduction that the Bard hardly ever blotted a line. The claim received a famous rejoinder from Ben Johnson: “Would that he had blotted a thousand.” Nu-Ance Theatre’s production of Hamlet, r …Read more

In a setting that will be familiar to anyone who relied on the MTA to make it to the show, In Transit uses a subway station as a jumping off point, launching into the interconnecting lives of several New Yorkers struggling to figure out where they’re …Read more

Up-and-coming English actress Jade Anouka, who plays Ariel in the Donmar Warehouse’s acclaimed production of The Tempest at St. Ann’s Warehouse, graciously allowed me to chat with her on her day off. The Tempest is the finale of Phyllida Lloyd’s magn …Read more

BroadwayCon 2017 included several excellent panels, with topics ranging from defining success in the industry, to the importance of women’s writers, to tales from one of Broadway’s most legendary makeup designers. There was truly something for everyo …Read more

Starring in Fault Line Theatre’s production of Bekah Brunsetter’s new play The Oregon Trail, the wonderful Liba Vaynberg brings the show’s humor to life with her portrayal of “now Jane,” a ’90s middle schooler with an overbearing older sister (Laura …Read more

How heartbreaking that on World Holocaust Day 2017, a play about the suffering of Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust seems more relevant than ever. As the new administration has taken on the task of banning refugees and making the lives of non-white …Read more

Jazz singer/songwriter Nellie McKay is bringing her show A Girl Named Bill – The Life and Times of Billy Tipton back to Feinstein’s/54 Below from January 26-28. Her revue focuses on the curious life of bandleader Tipton, who lived as a man, but was d …Read more

The Fire This Time Festival is celebrating its eighth landmark year. Since its creation, the festival has amplified the voice of African American playwrights, artists and performers, and has helped budding writers find their space in the field of the …Read more