Polished. That’s the first word that comes to mind when I think of the New Broadway Recording of The Color Purple, which opened in theatres a few weeks ago. This revival holds an interesting place in 21st-century theatre musical history, being the fi …Read more
Matt Doyle will release his first album Uncontrolled on February 26, featuring music and lyrics by Doyle, and composer Will Van Dyke, the album is a compilation of new material, and covers of songs he loves including tunes performed originally by Jan …Read more
Does the fact that there is a $55 billion-a-year beauty industry bother you? Do you ever wonder if you are wearing that lipstick because you chose it or if you’re just being controlled by a patriarchal consumer-driven society? Non-profit social theat …Read more
The decade characterized by its counter culture, rock and roll hedonism and civil rights movement would take a good few years from its onset to fully take shape. The early sixties, in many ways a covetous extension of the previous decade, were shaped …Read more
A set-piece in miniature, a school boarding house, emanates little glimmers of warmth as the window lights switch on one by one. The bare trees of Santo Loquasto’s set design suggest a cool, lonesome atmosphere by contrast. In Prodigal Son, presented …Read more
At first, Utility, Emily Schwend’s new play with the Amoralists now onstage at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, doesn’t feel particularly earthshaking. There are no explosions, no fits of sobbing or knockdown, drag-out fights. The play creeps along q …Read more
How do you speak up when language does not belong to you? How do you move through the world with agency when your body does not belong to you? SLUT is not an easy play to watch, or even to name out loud. It is not about convenient, easy-to-swallow tr …Read more
Annie Wilson’s Lovertits, presented by Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series, is not for the prudish. Under Wilson’s direction, performer/creators Christina Gesualdi, Jenna Horton, and Ilse Zoerb walk a thrilling line between pedestrianism and th …Read more
American Lyric Theater presented daring, new work by composers and librettists on Sunday, February 7 at National Sawdust in Williamsburg. Artistic Director Lawrence Edelson has done something visionary with ALT alumni teams, putting together a progra …Read more
What is the real essence of Sophocles’ Theban plays and why do we still perform it today? Asa Horvitz’s Theban Plays, neither a retelling nor an adaptation of the original trilogy, nevertheless extracts from each story its core philosophical question …Read more
