An author’s first play is usually subject to the regular pitfalls: stilted dialogue, unbelievable characters, slightly askew dramatic mechanisms. Not so for Francesca Pazniokas’ Keep, currently running at the TBG Theater. Performed in collaboration w …Read more

I was a bit too young in the mid- to late-1960s to have attended a “happening.” But Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit, performed Monday nights at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre, is much like what I’ve imagined such attention-grabbing events …Read more

Written in 1779, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s verse drama Nathan the Wise was not performed until 1783, two years after the German playwright’s death. British translator Edward Kemp, who fashioned the 2003 prose version used for this Classic Stage Comp …Read more

StageBuddy recently had the opportunity to interview Morgan Stevenson, the writer and director of If We Don’t Get It, Shut It Down – A Play About the Baltimore Uprising, a piece of documentary theater with the vast majority of the dialogue and situat …Read more

Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh is a true New York institution. After making her Broadway debut at age 20 in Cyrano, she has never left the stage and has charmed audiences with riveting performances in shows like Irena’s Vow, Pippin and Golda’s Balcony,  …Read more

There are three things you need to know about Wrestling Jerusalem: (1) On the night I attended, the show was stopped twice due to technical issues at 59E59; (2) once the show was finally resumed for good, the sound cues had to be omitted entirely; an …Read more

I had the privilege of seeing mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn’s astounding performance as Brother in The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera by Stefan Weisman produced at HERE for the 2015 Prototype Festival.  Ms. Chinn is back at HERE with a new opera-t …Read more

Set in the 1980s, the hilarious comedy of errors Daddy Issues, now playing at the Davenport Theatre, tells the story of family dysfunction, loyal friendship, denial, and placating to the extreme. Donald Moscowitz (Stephen Millett standing in for Yuva …Read more

On April 8th and 9th, the Abrons Arts Center housed the US debut of the raucous and celebrated Skin Me, by Hungarian choreographer-performers Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár, and Zsófia Tamara Vadas. A show that balances itself on the heels of the pendu …Read more

“At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.” Tim O’Brien Theatre, like all art, is at its most intense when the boundary between fiction and real life i …Read more