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

Bixby Elliot’s original play Sommerfugl tackles a very important subject at a very timely point in its public discussion. Within the last few years, the topic of gender identity has reached a broader audience, and InViolet Theater’s production succes …Read more

There’s a variety of tricks to writing most archetypal celebrity ‘autobiographies’. First, get in a ghost writer who can either make sense and good grammar out of prerecorded drivel posing as authentic memories, or can sum up the subject matter by pu …Read more

On October 1st, three short plays will be debuting as part of Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Short Play Development Project. These three plays, with the provocative titles Swollen, Wasted, and B in Oblivion were written by K. Krombie, Conor Guzman, an …Read more

Anne Washburn’s transadaptation of Iphigenia In Aulis, now onstage at the Classic Stage Company’s inaugural Greek Festival, is a mesmerizing, groundbreaking update on Euripides’ final tragedy, which premiered in Athens in 405 BC. Directed by Rachel C …Read more

From the 18th through the late 20th centuries, women and young girls deemed fallen were forced to atone for their “sins” at labor camps in Ireland known as Magdalene laundries. These women, many of whom were prostitutes, single mothers, rape victims, …Read more