Series B of the 2015 Summer Shorts at 59E59 includes three pieces of premiere pieces that vary significantly in tone and type but somehow manage to create something resembling a complete evening of theater. The three new shorts are: Unstuck by Lucy T …Read more
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock far away from the theater district, you’re aware that next week brings the Broadway opening of Hamilton, the much-anticipated musical from In the Heights Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. …Read more
The Attic Theater Company’s new Off-Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s 1986 play, the dreamer examines his pillow, is a thought provoking examination of love, sex and how the subconscious mind is influenced by our parents no matter how hard w …Read more
It seems apropos to meet up with dedicated theater artists Jessi Blue Gormezano and KJ Sanchez in a slightly battered second floor theater space off of 10th Avenue on 52nd Street; the kind of space that is fast disappearing as the Hell’s Kitchen neig …Read more
PTP/NYC’s 2015 production of Scenes from an Execution will most likely be remembered best for being Jan Maxwell’s swan song, as the Tony-nominated actress announced she was retiring from the stage after completing the run. One can’t help but think of …Read more
Transport Group’s opening of Three Days to See, a play conceived and directed by Jack Cummings III based on Helen Keller’s words, features a series of jokes about Keller being blind. As the play progresses, it becomes very clear that this production …Read more
The work on display by Neil LaBute, Matthew Lopez and Vicki Ramirez at 59E59 Theaters’ Summer Shorts series proves why these playwrights are the voices of contemporary American theatre. LaBute, the biggest star of the three, is the series’ big draw a …Read more
In Yussef El Guindi’s Threesome, a sexual escapade becomes the window into a world of double standards, faux convictions and misogyny as three people must come to terms with the fact that they’re not as liberal, or liberated, as they thought. When th …Read more
According to the hilarious musical RUTHLESS! people will go to any lengths in order to become famous, as we see in little Tina Denmark (a sensational Tori Murray), a sweet girl who dreams of nothing else but life in the theatre. When she isn’t chosen …Read more
A number of shows being performed all over the country all deal with the same thing: aging. There’s Mid-Life the Crisis Musical, Menopause the Musical, Mid-Life 2; the Crisis Musical, and many home-made regional productions of shows pertaining to the …Read more