One enters the story told in The Millay Sisters by way of a sort of tipsy stumble. Rachel Murdy, playing the role of Norma Millay, serves as emcee in a nostalgic cabaret type of set-up, singing songs from the early twentieth century to the piano acco …Read more

Say what you will about Donny, he’s a showman. A teen magician, Donny (played by the magnetic Harry Farmer) is deluded in his abilities, he’s blinkered to anything beyond the scope of his act, he lacks the ability to connect with others or glean thei …Read more

Life, death and Walt Whitman are subject to heightened scrutiny in the explosive two-hander I And You. Referring to the project Caroline (Kayla Ferguson) and Anthony’s (Reggie D. White) English teacher assigns to explore the meaning of pronouns in Wh …Read more

The Japanese taiko drum and dance sensation Drum TAO is slated to premiere its new show, Drum Heart, in February at the NYU Skirball Center. At the center of the New York City-only production is the famed Japanese director Amon Miyamoto, reuniting wi …Read more

Toshiki Okada’s God Bless Baseball, performed in Japanese and Korean with English subtitles at Philadelphia’s FringeArts, is a masterful exploration of the dangers of leaving home, or least home plate.  Through the eyes of two baseball-curious laymen …Read more

The first thing that strikes you about Bianca Marroquín is her light. If she were performing in a darkened room, she would make it brighter through sheer force of will. Her megawatt smile lighting every single corner it touched. After that comes her …Read more

Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, was written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Telling the story of one woman who dares to defy a king and society for what she believes is just, The Buri …Read more

For most writers, there is much catharsis in storytelling. In the case of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella The Gambler, the real-life roulette addict wrote with considerable knowledge about a fictional roulette addict. The novel’s true purpose however, i …Read more

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking about the new play I and You by Lauren Gunderson, having its New York premiere Off Broadway at 59E59, and the process of developing new work with theater director Sean Daniels.  A few days later, I had the good …Read more

There are two major psychological forces at play in Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin’s theater cum performance art piece Confirmation, which took place at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill as a part of New York City’s annual Coil Festival, a …Read more