Holy cow, run, don’t walk, to the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street to see Mother Africa: My Home. This “circus spectacular” production has been brought back to New York by the Circus der Sinne group from South Africa and features performers from al …Read more

The holidays are sure to be filled with joyous music as The New York Pops prepare for their Christmas special Make the Season Bright (December 16 and 17 at Carnegie Hall), which this year features two pairs of incredibly talented siblings; the Callaw …Read more

I recently spoke with dancer and aerialist Allison Ulrich, who plays Marie-Claire in Company XIV’s latest baroque-burlesque confection, Nutcracker Rouge, currently on stage at the Irondale Theater in Brooklyn. Ulrich, a graduate of Juilliard where sh …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

Tulis McCall’s one-woman show Are You Serious? — A Woman of a Certain Age Inquires is one of those rare gems you come across in theatre. Her show is a 50-minute look at the inevitable passing of time and how she found herself unprepared to be a woma …Read more

Recent Cutbacks has paid homage to Jurassic Park (Hold On To Your Butts) and The Lord of the Rings (Fly, You Fools!) with their parody remakes. But they have reached the pinnacle of exclamation point ’90s pop culture with their latest, KEVIN!!!!!, a …Read more

Watching Luke Comer’s multimedia rock odyssey The Portal is kind of like being on someone else’s acid trip, but you wish you were also on drugs. It takes you on one man’s spiritual journey through the desert where he is followed at various times by a …Read more

All of the characters in Alligator are lost. Not geographically, but emotionally, each of them simply wandering the Earth hoping to collide against someone who will steer them towards the right path, or at least the one more livable. Twin siblings Ty …Read more

“A man without land is nobody.” Such is the maxim, learned from his grandfather, that Duddy Kravitz (Ken James Stewart) uses to rule and guide his ambitions. Of course, to acquire the land, he first needs to acquire the money, and as his desperation …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