Australian funny man Tim Motley’s many talents include working an audience, delivering lightning-fast one-liners in a Humphrey Bogart a la Casablanca sort of way and performing tongue-in-cheek, comically rubbish magic tricks. From the moment he steps …Read more
Doctor Zhivago had the inauspicious title of being the first show to close on Broadway when the Tony nominations were announced in May. It had received no nominations and after poor notices, and a poorer box performance, the production closed after 2 …Read more
Theaterlab’s Wildwood Flowers, created and choreographed by Reut Shemesh, is a gripping, edgy, and evocative movement piece. This piece, which premiered in Cologne earlier this year, has now been reimagined by Shemesh with New York performers, trying …Read more
Who said becoming a Chinese stand-up comedian was easy? Stand-up may be a relatively new thing in China, but Des Bishop is propping up the door for others to put a foot in, even if he does have to apply to the censor for permission before every show …Read more
Fate is a funny thing, causing people — strangers, even — to be drawn mysteriously towards one another emotionally and physically. It is this energy that united two young circus academy students, Magnus Bjøru and Manu Tiger. As they tell it, they …Read more
Those familiar with the Thomas Bradshaw’s writing have come to expect the controversial. His plays – which often deal with the graphic reality of subjects like murder, pedophilia, incest and rape onstage – are not for the easily triggered. But Fulfil …Read more
After a fifteen year hiatus, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes is back in New York, bringing to life a rotating cast of forty characters in his new show The Daisy Theatre at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Mr. Burkett is a puppeteer virtuoso and da …Read more
Many of us had a boogeyman in our childhood, a story of a supernatural being who would steal us away unless we obeyed our mothers. As we grew older we stopped believing in such preposterous cautionary tales, but Pipeline Theatre Company’s The Gray Ma …Read more
Popesical!, a musical by Adam Overett, is set during the papal conclave, the election in which cardinals vote for a new pope, and it features a motley crew of cardinals who are put through successively absurd tests to prove their fitness for the papa …Read more
Composer Barbara Anselmi knows what it takes to sustain a career in the theater. From the ripe old age of five, Anselmi was moved by music and the magic of the orchestra and knew it had to be a part of her future. From her early experiences music dir …Read more