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

Head of Passes opens in a very familiar manner, as we see people in the home of Shelah (Phylicia Rashad) bustling in anticipation of a celebration set to take place that night. Shelah’s children have decided to throw her the big birthday bash she has …Read more

Andrew Schneider, inventor of the Solar Bikini (capable of charging your iPod), and wireless, programmable, sound effect gloves, walks a high tech tightrope between grand design and accessible theater. The test tube child of Einstein and Houdini, Sch …Read more

Wolf in the River – Adam Rapp’s new play, being performed by The Bats at The Flea – is an impressionistic look at the destitute and depraved. It is something like a True Detective nightmare imagined by a young Tracy Letts, but it is neither exploitat …Read more

From Cupid’s love-tipped arrows to Shakespeare’s Puck administering the juice of a magic flower upon a quartet of young lovers in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, to the tragic tale of Tristan and Iseult, a love potion is a powerful way to propel a plot fo …Read more

Donizetti’s opera about the last days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I has not been seen on the New York stage in more than thirty years. When a new production directed by Sir David McVicar premiered last Thursday, it was greeted with more applause, …Read more