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
Celebrated actor Ed Asner, known for his performances as Lou Grant and the voice of the old man in Disney/Pixar’s Up, talks with Evan Seplow of StageBuddy about his history, opinions on acting, and his new off-Broadway comedy A Man and his Prostate, …Read more
As Edmond Rostand’s famously big-nosed romantic who is capable of dispatching a hundred sword-wielding opponents, yet can’t quite work up the nerve to tell a beautiful girl he loves her, actor Gabriel Barre exudes a sort of world-weariness that seems …Read more
#therevolution, directed by Seth Rozin and presented by InterAct Theatre Company at their new home at The Drake, is bubbling with ideas. Like all good satire, it is not so hard to imagine a world in which the events that initiate revolution in the p …Read more
