It is rare in theater these days that you feel enthralled by the pull of auteur. Though Theatre for a New Audience’s presentation of New York City Players’ Isolde may at first feel like a tough fit, somehow awkward or strained, take comfort in the kn …Read more

The Dirty Blondes’ The American Play, written by Ashley J. Jacobson, pays strange and twisted homage to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. It tells the story of three college students pushed to extremes, and a protagonist who finds himself co …Read more

On paper, Pondling is a very accessible piece of theater. The one-woman show – written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, directed by Paul Meade, and being presented at 59E59 Theaters as a part of Origin’s 1st Irish Festival 2015 – is about Mad …Read more

“I wasn’t cut out for the undertaking business,” says singing undertaker Mossey Burke, who, having reluctantly inherited his father’s line of work, yearns for a better suited career in the hotel or catering industry. Burke regales us with tales of a …Read more

Never Odd or Even, a play from title:point productions at the Brick Theater, questions and challenges what madness is and what our minds can make sense of. Five performers, who each portray a number of undefined characters, create a world where every …Read more

Maybe Tomorrow, inspired by a true story, is a deeply touching dark comedy about what is real and what we simply learn to live with. Written by Max Mondi, the entire play is set in a bathroom, where the lives of Gail and Ben unfold as Gail slips into …Read more

The topic of suicide has never received such a puzzling treatment as in the intricate mystery thriller The Black Book. This head scratcher of a play may be convoluted at times, but it is utterly mesmerizing. At first I may have been annoyed at all th …Read more

Whitney Bashor first stole the hearts of Broadway fans with her haunting performance in The Bridges of Madison County where she played Robert Kincaid’s (Steven Pasquale) ex-wife Marian. In the bossa nova infused “Another Life” she evoked precisely an …Read more

With a sold-out FringeNYC run, two Moth StorySLAM wins, and a book (Alice in Tumblr-land) published by Penguin, Tim Manley is at the top of the storytelling craft. His one-man show, Feelings, weaves together the uneasy years in his twenties when he c …Read more

Bubbleheads, a one-act play at Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival, offers audiences a dreamlike experience of divorce and remarriage through the eyes of a child. We spoke with director Heather Chamberlain about the challenges of bringing th …Read more