The Irish Arts Center’s How to Keep an Alien is a laugh-a-minute kind of show. In this one-woman romantic comedy, presented as part of Origin’s 1st Irish theater festival, love must be proven through endless paperwork, collectable moments kept in a b …Read more
To enter Taryn Simon’s monumental installation, An Occupation of Loss, currently on view at the Park Avenue Armory, the audience must climb an outdoor staircase to arrive on the mezzanine level, where they can gaze down at an eerie constellation of 4 …Read more
Alzheimer’s patients require a special sort of tenderness. The smallest of daily rituals beg the boundless encouragement, patience, and love of the caregiver. Blossom, the story of an aging painter in the last seasons of his life, paints the plight o …Read more
Jessi Blue Gormezano, a dedicated and passionate theater artist, is attracted to powerful subject matter that reverberates with up-to-the-minute social issues. Last summer I interviewed Ms. Gormezano about her producing and acting in the U.S. premie …Read more
Taylor Mac’s ambitious A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is set to culminate at St. Ann’s Warehouse with an epic 24-hour-long performance starting on October 8, but those without the stamina, or caffeine tolerance to stay up for so long can take t …Read more
Based on the never ending number of Shakespearean revivals every year, one might think that staging a production of a Shakespeare play was a rather easy thing to do. Of course we all know that nothing could be further from the truth. With the complex …Read more
The premise sells itself: a musical based on Craigslist ads. It’s a clever idea that promises a humorous look at what people look for behind the shield of anonymity. And for the most part, Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone deliver as p …Read more
Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 novella The Birds put a petrified chill to an atmosphere that was enhanced by Hitchcock’s film adaptation 11 years later. Conor McPherson’s 2009 stage adaptation concentrates less on the plot-driven grisliness of the novella …Read more
The man with whom I share my Lyft ride on the way to Ford’s Theatre tells me and the driver about a former high school classmate he was very fond of, whom he lost contact with years before. One day he saw one of his Facebook friend’s pictures at the …Read more
Owen McCafferty’s play Quietly depicts a highly charged confrontation between two men on opposite sides of a violent past in their shared city of Belfast. An Abbey Theatre production, Quietly, directed by Jimmy Fay, is currently on an extended run th …Read more