An Irishman, a Slovakian and an Israeli walk into a Harold Pinter play…pauses ensue. It’s not easy being Pinteresque. Irish actor and producer Philip O’Gorman has endured the hustle of fundraising via Indiegogo for a production of Pinter’s Old Time …Read more
Julia Murney will be joining a myriad of Broadway stars to celebrate the holidays with The Muppets at NJPAC’s Broadway Sings The Muppet Christmas Carol to mark the occasion we spoke to the iconic leading lady. Do you have special love for The Muppet …Read more
In the opening scene of Michael Harren’s The Animal Show, the solo performer describes his veganism as a pair of “rose-colored glasses.” The animals he services at the Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary (where he was a resident artist) do not celebrate …Read more
Magician Helder Guimarães is the youngest winner of the prestigious World Championship of Closeup Card Magic. He was awarded this trophy in Stockholm in 2006 by performing a routine so impossible that magicians are still talking about it. He went on …Read more
With Sutton Foster at its center, the New Group’s revival of Sweet Charity melds the many emotions of a story about a big-hearted and naïve young girl trapped in a miserable reality. Set in the ’60s, Sweet Charity, as the title might imply, follows C …Read more
Remember the days when homosexuality was used as a plot twist, and coming out was the entire axis upon which entire shows revolved? Those days are, for the most, happily over and we are now seeing productions in which gay characters are simply, well, …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 our first installment of thEATer, we chatted with Karen Ele …Read more
Some time between the coleslaw and the dancing gnomes I decided it was a fool’s errand to try to overthink Now Is The Time. Now Is The Best Time. Now Is The Best Time Of Your Life., the latest “junk spectacular” (their words) by Brooklyn based theate …Read more
When the characters in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead speak, what comes out is a jumble of words: lyrical, emotional, tautological. A man in overalls sits with a watermelon in his lap. Where d …Read more
There is no more satisfying way to get your spook on during Halloween season than the award-winning RadioTheatre’s annual festival of works by HP Lovecraft, which was held at Kraine Theater in the East Village. Being an audience member at a live perf …Read more