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

Recently, I saw Caroline V. McGraw’s The Bachelors at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, produced by guest company Lesser America. While I thoroughly enjoyed the play, it is certainly a complicated affair: the script utilizes the language of modern …Read more

Does this sound familiar? A pompous, overtly religious moralizer prepares to run for political office only to be revealed as a hypocrite. Satirization of religious and moral hypocrisy rears its head once again in Molière’s classic play Tartuffe, free …Read more

“Let’s lead the world in a whole new dance, / God knows it’s our only chance. “ – Kathy Change/Kathleen Chang Chang(e), a docudrama inspired by and based on the life of performance artist/activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang), who self-immo …Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juGx8PUYjvE&feature=youtu.be We attended a press preview of Transport Group’s Once Upon a Mattress at New 42 Street Studios. The beloved Mary Rodgers musical will play a limited run from November 23, 2015 to Januar …Read more

Hasan Minhaj, a correspondent on The Daily Show, is currently performing Off-Broadway in Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King.  The solo show, about Minhaj’s experiences growing up in the mostly white town of Davis, California, concludes its sold-out run on …Read more