The broad, vast stage of the Ellen Stewart Theatre cast in blue light, with huge fabric tubes standing upright like stalks of bamboo, a massive disembodied hand hovering mid-air over the musicians in the upstage corner. This was the striking image th …Read more
Walking through the East Village, I found myself thinking about my bygone college days gallivanting down 4th Street for one-woman shows, drinking in dive bars and grabbing late-night fried chicken from the now shuttered Mama’s Food Shop. My wandering …Read more
Upon the death in 1923 of their rabbi father who was a dwarf, seven of the ten children of Shimson Eizik Ovitz formed a theatrical ensemble known as the Lilliput Troupe. Being Romanian, these seven children of Ovitz, also dwarves, toured across Roman …Read more
Watching Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy, directed by Michael Wilson and presented by the Signature Theatre as part of a celebration of the playwright’s centennial, I wondered if it was the play’s prescience – and the ease at which one unavoidably …Read more
There couldn’t have been a better setting for Michael John LaChiusa’s First Daughter Suite than the Public, except, maybe, the White House. The Anspacher Theater, with its white columns darting up from a house that curls around the playing space, pro …Read more
After 36 years of performances throughout the U.S. and around the world, the hit comedy whodunit Shear Madness has finally found its way to New York. The show, created by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan (who also directs), began its long life as a su …Read more
Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead is not a play made easily digestible. Much like the play upon which it’s based, it’s incredibly wordy, often esoteric, and full of heady philosophical themes of mortality. In this production of the …Read more
Have you ever attended a hobo funeral? Well, I have. Or at least by watching writer and composer Jara Jones’ solo folk-rock musical, King of the Hobos, I have an idea of what it might be like. Jones plays Gilly, an Alabama-born hobo who put together …Read more
La MaMa’s biennial Puppet Series has taken an acrobatic turn this week with Théâtre d’un Jour’s high-flying piece The Child Who. The Belgian theatre troupe brings together puppetry, acrobatics, and live music in this grippingly entertaining productio …Read more
We were so impressed with Seth Sikes’ Judy Garland show (read our review) that we just couldn’t resist picking his brain about all things Judy! Pick Your Top 5 Judy Garland songs: One wants to not pick the obvious for this, but then one would be negl …Read more