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

If John Doyle is well known for his minimalist productions, then his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is downright molecular. He distilled the Norwegian playwright’s massive five act epic, into a mere two hours of surrealism, proto-naturalism, …Read more

In 1996 Jose Llana performed one of the most beautiful renditions of “We Kissed in a Shadown” on the revival of The King and I. It was his Broadway debut. In 2015 he returned to the show, this time as the King, and in 2016, two decades after his debu …Read more

Les Covert (Rob Maitner) must have spent a lot of time watching Alfred Hitchock’s Rear Window, because his MO is straight out of the 1954 classic. He dedicates his free time – of which he seems to have a lot – staring from his modest window apartment …Read more

Welcome to the dark and mysterious world of the Edgar Allan Poe Festival. Now playing at St John’s Sanctuary, which has been transformed into an eerie underground crypt, complete with candle light, skulls, fog, and ominous sounds that send tingles up …Read more

It’s time to party like it’s 2003 in Taylor Mac’s OKAY, a subversively brilliant production by the folks at UglyRhino, under the direction of Danny Sharron. The play takes place entirely in the girls’ restroom of an unidentified high school, where ug …Read more

At first glance Mike Albo’s Spermhood: Diary of a Donor, seems to be the kind of thing that Madonna and Rupert Everett made movies about in the early aughts; a single gay man donates sperm to his lesbian best friends, hilarity and heartbreak ensue. U …Read more

Currently gracing the stage as Angus (“Pa”) Tuck in Tuck Everlasting, screen and stage star Michael Park is perhaps best known for his longstanding role as Jack Snyder on As the World Turns, for which he won two Daytime Emmys. Now, he’s enjoying the …Read more

In May of 2004, 52.5 million viewers across America watched Ross and Rachel get back together for the last time, swearing eternal commitment to each other, on the final episode of the television series Friends. More than a decade later, people across …Read more