A tale of dark family secrets, dysfunctional dynamics, and psychological disorders to the extreme, The House of Yes is a captivating play by Wendy MacLeod that was remade into the cult 1997 film of the same name. It is now brought back to the stage w …Read more
With Miss Julie, the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre takes its modern New York audience back to 1888, when counts lorded over their manors and the slightest wisp of scandal could end a girl’s life. Set in Switzerland, Miss Julie tells the story of Ju …Read more
An adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s The Birds, by Conor McPherson is playing as part of Origin’s First Irish Theatre Festival; those familiar with the plot will find it refreshed by Stefan Dzeparoski’s claustrophobic, minimalistic direction which ma …Read more
We’ve all heard about saying something with flowers, but “say it with soup” is a rather unique form of expression. Yet this is what Ray (Tim Kang), reluctantly, figures out will be the best way to communicate decades of unsaid things to his dying fat …Read more
A new production of The Black Crook (at the Abrons Arts Center) marks the 150th anniversary of the premiere of a work that has been dubbed (erroneously, some say) America’s first musical. The show is largely unknown now, but throughout the late 19th …Read more
A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney, born in Salford in the northwest of England, wrote her first play when she was just 18. In the late 1950s, Delaney’s gender and class amounted to a great sum of odds that were against her. Nevertheless, A …Read more
As a writer, performer, and director, Winsome Brown wears a lot of hats, which works out well for her current piece, Hit the Body Alarm, a one-woman show that weaves together four stories. Bringing Paradise Lost to modern theater by showing Eve and S …Read more
From the simple question “can you tell me your life story?”, the folks at Nature Theater of Oklahoma crafted one of the most epic enterprises in contemporary American theatre: Life and Times, a 9-part (so far) saga that has taken on the form of a mur …Read more
The two women are dressed in white, the older one sits still, as the younger one stands close to her and begins applying makeup on her face. They are surrounded by coffins that fill the air with a pervasive eeriness, and yet the two women can’t help …Read more
From the Staten Island Ferry, to Picasso’s dining room, the work of Erin Mee defies the notions many people have of where theatre should take place. But the proscenium isn’t the only thing she removes from her work, she also does without the timidity …Read more