All too often, kids’ entertainment means that, while the little ones have a great time, parents are abandoned to hour-long series of boredom. Not so at the New Victory Theatre. With Mr. Popper’s Penguins, director Emma Earle presents fun that actuall …Read more
How many musicals in Spanish can you think of? If the answer is zero, you might be onto something. Broadway musicals often get translated into several languages, including Spanish, but the number of original musicals in the language of Cervantes amou …Read more
Inspired by the solo storytelling in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, PREMIERES’ Artistic Director Paulette Haupt was curious to see how the one person show would transform if music were added to the words. And into existence came Inner Voices, which is …Read more
Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt are magnificent in Manhattan Theatre Club’s funny and surprising two-hander Heisenberg, now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Written by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) an …Read more
Magic lives inside the space of a theatre. Or in CIrque du Soleil’s case, inside the space of their circus tent. Like electricity, magic is always in the air. Just as Nikola Tesla knew how to harness the electricity that invisibly hovers the earth, K …Read more
Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You is not an especially good play, in fact it can be rather trite at times, its central “issue” is so dated, that one wonders if having it be an issue at all is part of one of the playwright’s perverse jokes, …Read more
The universe proved it has a wicked sense of humor by having the opening night of Paper Mill Playhouse’s The Producers occur on the very day The New York Times released a piece which revealed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump had used a tax law …Read more
As Fringe Encore is underway, the program’s co-creator Britt Lafield told us about what makes this year special, and how the shows get selected. What goes into the process of selecting the pieces for Encore? In selecting the pieces [co-creator Darren …Read more
Jérôme Bel’s provocative work has been taking the dance world by storm since he made his debut two decades ago. Working on the fringe of the field, he constantly challenges preconceptions on what exactly makes a dance piece “a dance piece”, by using …Read more
The Classical Theatre of Harlem welcomes playwright Betty Shamieh to the main stage this fall with her new play, Fit for a Queen, a passion project that she undertook more than a decade ago. From the time that Shamieh learned about one of the most po …Read more