Chris Hedges’ Death of the Liberal Class, published in 2010, was a rousing, if slightly bleak essay about the perils of capitalism, and how it was a beast allowed to run amok by both Republicans and Democrats, American society according to Hedges was …Read more

The first annual Exponential Fest, created as Brooklyn’s reaction to the host of mid-winter theater fests in the city, pulls no punches. In Biter (Every Time I Turn Around), remounted for the Festival after last year’s run, theater collective Title:P …Read more

To a liberal New Yorker, the Tea Party is all that is wrong with America. But what if the opposite were also true? Wouldn’t a Tea Partier say the exact same thing of liberals? In Rich Orloff’s documentary-style play, Chatting with the Tea Party, the …Read more

In an era when children’s entertainment is often a flamboyant bonanza constantly bombarding the senses, The Very Hungry Caterpillar show feels refreshingly personal and unassuming. The set, costumes, and script are modest, but colorful, and the produ …Read more

Funnyman and theatre geek extraordinaire Ben Cameron is back with an all new season of Broadway Sessions (Thursday nights at The Laurie Beechman Theatre), after a successful hosting appearance at the very first BroadwayCon, Cameron will bring some of …Read more

Lawrence Edelson, founder and producing artistic director of American Lyric Theater (ALT) wears many hats in the opera world and beyond.  For the past nine years, ALT’s Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) has been a vital and important par …Read more

Escuela, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón and presented at Philadelphia’s FringeArts, asks us to think long and hard about what we need to learn in order to impact the world around us.  It is at once a guide to becoming a revolutionary in a …Read more

Infrequent yet ominous piano music penetrates a summer retreat, crammed with the accouterments of artistic craft and disharmony. Adolph (Josh Tyson), an artist belittled by a desperate love for his writer wife Tekla (Elise Stone) and the tangled webs …Read more

In a locker/meeting/breakfast/lunch/living room of a car manufacturer in Detroit, signs cover the walls: “No Gambling”; “No Smoking”; “No Playing Music”. A strict “stop and search policy” is enforced upon the workers passing through the room each day …Read more

With an impressive résumé that includes hits such as Emma and Jane Eyre, the award-winning lyricist, composer, and librettist Paul Gordon takes great pride in shining a spotlight on the classics. His most recent work, Daddy Long Legs, which has the d …Read more