You can tell Saulo García has years of experience in comedy for the way in which he reads a room. At the first performance of his show Sin wifi también se vive at Repertorio Español (through January 8th) it was as if he wanted to make sure each and e …Read more
Although the title The First Noel implies that this musical is a Christmas story, in many ways it isn’t. Rather it leans heavily on the drama, against a backdrop of spectacular music, songs and visual feasts. Set in Harlem in 1985, The First Noel, pe …Read more
Who better to bring a bunch of fuzzy creatures to life than Broadway’s best and brightest? In Broadway Sings The Muppet Christmas Carol, director and co-producer Katherine M. Carter, along with choreographer Jesse Robb, music director Neil Douglas Re …Read more
There’s a time and a place for Serious Theater, ponderous and esoteric… and then there’s time for the kind of ecstatic, transportive experience that Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 serves up on a gilded platter with a vodka chaser. Dave M …Read more
I tend to turn my nose up at physical humor, making it all the tastier to eat my words at Theater for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center’s production of The Servant of Two Masters, which proved that a text from the 18th century can go …Read more
It doesn’t feel like too much of a stretch to say that everyone who did drama in high school found themselves in a production of Our Town at some point in their budding acting career (unless of course you did The Crucible instead). That’s certainly t …Read more
Whether he’s hanging from the London Eye, or floating over metal pikes at the Palace Theatre in New York City, escapologist/daredevil Jonathan Goodwin always keeps the audience enthralled. Defying the odds, he’s been able to conquer heights, gravity …Read more
You haven’t heard Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” until you’ve heard Eliot Glazer sing it. The classically trained vocalist-turned-comedian fills the song with longing, sincere romance and humor as one of the many numbers he covers in his Haunting Rendit …Read more
Remember those I Spy books with the photographic picture riddles full of miniatures and myriad objects imaginatively arrayed? There was often a surreal quality to these primarily visual books; a feeling of browsing through the freely associated token …Read more
The dining scene of New York’s Theater District is quickly becoming one of the best of the city, and few people know it better than the actors who call the neighborhood their second home. In this installment of thEATer, we chatted with Lucia Giannett …Read more