In Amazing Grace Erin Mackey plays Mary Catlett, the privileged young lady whose world is turned upside down upon realizing of the brutality involved with slavery. Throughout the show we see her character transform from a naive girl into a woman who …Read more
The set design in Far From Canterbury is rather simple, prop designer Riw Rakkulchon, relies exclusively on four wooden crates and four flagpoles which are re-purposed throughout to emulate everything from regal thrones, to haunted towers and grand b …Read more
Although the character she plays is a credulous, simpering, unworldly, clueless ninny, actress Andrea Alton has the unflappable confidence and skill that makes her one woman show Possum Creek at the New York International Fringe Festival a delight to …Read more
Popesical: what a great title. It’s succinct; it’s informative. You know that what you’re going to see will be an irreverent, gleefully offensive satire of Catholic tradition, along the lines of a Fringe-budget Book of Mormon. Director and composer A …Read more
The magnificent multimedia dance theatre play Pearl, inspired by the life of writer Pearl S. Buck, premiered at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Thursday night. This gorgeous, sweeping epic is directed and choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, …Read more
In the 1990s, two 20-something, struggling actors from Boston wrote a screenplay in order to work. In 1997, the longtime best friends won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and their success was mythologized by Hollywood into a fairy tale …Read more
In Little One, part of the New York International Fringe Festival, a brother and sister portray their lives growing up in an ordinary suburban neighborhood. The siblings were adopted into their family. Aaron (Daniel Arnold) arrived as a little …Read more
Your Love, Our Musical treats the audience to a real life love story, set to music. The performance at the New York International Fringe Festival is memorable and entertaining, but to truly appreciate the talent on display, a few important factors mu …Read more
Teddy Baskins (Vinnie Urdea), the passive hero at the center of Beware the Chupacabra, is the kind of person who has things happen to him, as opposed to being the master and commander of his own destiny. From unwillingly letting an heiress (Caitlin W …Read more
A journalist, keen to rebuild his professional reputation, arrives at a Rwandan prison five years after the 1994 genocide to interview two Hutu Nuns who are about to stand trial for war crimes. Their story is challenged by a survivor and dismissed by …Read more
