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
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
