Want a wonderful antidote to the mid-March winter blahs? Take a trip to sunny 19th-century Italy via the Metropolitan Opera’s sparkling production of Don Pasquale. One of Gaetano Donizetti’s most popular operas, this comic treasure is steeped in th …Read more
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) made her Broadway debut last night, March 6, in the opening of Eclipsed, a drama about a group of women held captive by a Liberian war lord. The play, by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tom …Read more
Familiar opens in a set that looks very much like the setting of countless contemporary Broandway and Off-Broadway dramas, that is, an upper middle class living room, complete with leather couches, rugs, bottles of liquor and an HD television set han …Read more
From Bridget Jones to Bollywood, the influence of Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice is undeniable, and yet we don’t have an ultimate musical theatre adaptation! This might change with Lawrence Rush’s take on the novel, which he presented in c …Read more
For those whose familiarity with Tennessee Williams is centered primarily on better known works like The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the two obscure one acts presented in Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company’s …Read more
Dead Dog Park is nothing if not topical. The brief but packed piece, directed by Eric Tucker at 59E59 Theaters, is about Rob McDonald, a white cop who is put on trial for pushing a black teenager named Tyler Chapin out of a window. In some ways, it f …Read more
The best reason to see Abingdon Theatre Company’s production of Charles Messina’s late-1970s New York City family dramedy A Room of My Own is a character known as Uncle Jackie, portrayed by Mario Cantone. On the surface, Jackie is an overly familiar …Read more
First, let’s get something out of the way: Straight is finely acted by Jake Epstein, Thomas Sullivan and especially Jenna Gavigan. The three play Boston residents entangled in an unorthodox love triangle; oft-stressed banker Ben (Epstein) is in a rel …Read more
Based on the book by Paul Auster, City of Glass commences its prismatic tale with a case of mistaken identity after which signs are generally loosened, if not wholly severed, from what they signify. This detachment of signs unfolds in a detective-noi …Read more
Playwright and director Edward Einhorn has been fashioning his own brand of absurdism and intellectual inquiry in the New York theater for more than twenty years. His latest play, City of Glass, is a stage adaptation of Paul Auster’s celebrated 1985 …Read more