As chairman of the International Order of Sodomites – the renowned entity that regulates the proper behavior, etiquette and culture of the gay community – one would think that Justin Sayre would have his hands full, but the summer of 2016 brings two …Read more

Before the filmed versions of their Broadway successes The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers pulled the Marx Brothers into Hollywood immortality, there was their 1924 Broadway debut, I’ll Say She Is. The show—which had played on the road for 18 months be …Read more

Closing out this year’s Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters is the hilarious, daring, and brilliant Dillie Keane. Founder of the one-and-only British comedy singing group, Fascinating Aïda, Ms. Keane used her sass and gutsy persona to turn …Read more

Off-Broadway theater has always been about experimenting. Why not, then, turn an Off-Broadway stage into your old high school science lab? Why not, indeed. Especially with a teacher like Dave Maiullo, a charismatic and committed science geek who take …Read more

Whether someone is a Broadway watcher, or a TV or film buff, you have likely seen actor Joe Morton craft his characterizations, often with far more depth than the roles required. His early years found him cast in one Broadway show after another, star …Read more

Put a great Greek myth together with an awesome genre-spanning score plus a superb cast and you get the downtown hit Hadestown, written by the versatile singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and playing at New York Theatre Workshop.  Hadestown is a unique …Read more

After attending a rehearsal of I’ll Say She Is the week before their first preview I went through something quite surreal. I watched a film that featured a clip of the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup and the next day I was unsure if I’d seen it onscreen or …Read more

While many actors only dream of starring in classic productions by Strindberg and Ibsen, Maggie Lacey has hit the thespian jackpot by getting to play Laura in The Father and Nora in A Doll’s House, at the same time. Both plays are being done in reper …Read more

The power dynamics of marriage have never tasted so bitter. With Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and August Strindberg’s The Father playing in repertory at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, two Scandinavian playwrights hold a mirror up to the institutio …Read more

Even though Malika (Anyanwu) was born female, she only felt she was herself until she became Messiah (Tanisha Thompson) a DJ and aspiring rapper who happens to be male. Now Malika has to face a world that rejects Messiah, but soon will discover that …Read more