Lea DeLaria has done it all: from music, to Broadway, to film, to comedy, to television, to even being a bestselling author (Lea’s Book of Rules for the World is a gem!) there is nothing she has tried that she’s not been absolutely great at. While he …Read more
At first glance, Sister Mary Downy seems to be a combination of Helen Reddy’s character from Airport 1975 (the nun who infamously serenaded the character played by Linda Blair) and the outlandish Letitia Primrose from On the Twentieth Century, who wi …Read more
The moral dilemma at the center of Marco Ramirez’s The Royale, is the kind which makes for truly timeless theatre. Jay Jackson (Khris Davis) dreams of becoming the boxing heavyweight champion of the world, and in a way he already is, having defeated …Read more
After Death of a Salesman, The Crucible is generally considered Arthur Miller’s most powerful and trenchant work. A look at religious hysteria in a Puritan colony, the 1953 play was a thinly veiled stab at Joseph McCarthy’s communist witchhunt—which …Read more
Known for her poise, grace and dramatic interpretations, Vivian Reed has conquered every medium in the entertainment industry. She’s a two-time Tony nominee, a successful recording artist, an accomplished dancer and fashion designer. Her polished per …Read more
On the centennial of his birth, Samuel Beckett’s Not I, a notoriously difficult work for any actor, will be presented alongside two other Beckett shorts, Footfalls and Rockaby at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts from April 13-17. A rare …Read more
Michael John LaChiusa, known for musicals such as Hello Again, Marie Christine, The Wild Party, and See What I Wanna See, first brought First Lady Suite, a chamber musical about four first ladies of the United States, to the Public Theater in 1993. M …Read more
The title creatures in author Greg McGoon’s children’s book The Tanglelows feed off negativity and distress, they get absolute pleasure out of provoking self-doubt and questioning within the minds they inhabit. Theirs is a world of chaos, only meant …Read more
Those in the West may not be familiar with the work of Indian stalwart Mahesh Dattani, but for decades he has been one of the leading theatre minds in the South Asian subcontinent. As a playwright, his seminal works Dance Like a Man and Final Solutio …Read more
People often wonder how come there always seems to be a revival of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, playing somewhere, and the answer might as well be contained in Aaron Posner’s Stupid F**king Bird, a “sorta” adaptation of the famous play that turns it …Read more