With its blurring of the lines between author and creation, Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author contains many themes that are well suited to be explored through the medium of puppetry. Theodora Skipitares’s play Six Characters (a …Read more

Anne Washburn’s latest commission for Playwrights Horizons, Antlia Pneumatica, roots, or perhaps uproots, itself in the innate and intimate sense of mystery that surrounds death. To those who know the 1983 film The Big Chill, the plot may sound famil …Read more

Prepare to be dazzled by some extraordinary tap dancing when you go see Cagney, the new Off Broadway musical playing at the Westside Theater.  Director Bill Castellino, choreographer Joshua Bergasse, superstar Robert Creighton (James Cagney), and a t …Read more

Prospect Theater Company’s musical Death for Five Voices tells the story of the double murder committed by Italian prince (and madrigal composer) Carlo Gesualdo in Naples in 1590. According to a program note, the poet Torquato Tasso was among the fir …Read more

They say great art should make you reevaluate or challenge the way you perceive the world. Leaving 3LD Art & Technology Center in lower Manhattan after Andrew Schneider’s YOUARENOWHERE, the world seemed like a new place altogether. The buildings …Read more

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