Children’s theatre in New York City seems to vacillate between being an embarrassment of riches and being a quagmire of treacle. Rock n’ Roll Mother Goose!, a high-energy one-woman performance created and performed by Judi Lewis Ockler, is one of the …Read more
The company of the Tony-winning musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical made the earth under Central Park’s SummerStage move to the rhythm of the show’s most memorable tunes. Hosted by Hoda Kotb, the one night only event featured a selection of th …Read more
One of theater’s greatest gifts is that it can externalize the internal, connecting people by articulating emotions that are impossible to convey in ordinary life with ordinary language. John Patrick Shanley’s comedy of anguish, the dreamer examines …Read more
Playwright Howard L. Craft has perhaps done more with 90 minutes than some writers have done with entire trilogies. In Craft’s Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, playing July 25th through August 9th at HERE Arts Center, the eponymous chara …Read more
The high-profile world of the NBA is dominated by men, but in King Liz, it’s a woman who takes center court. Fernanda Coppel’s new play, currently premiering at Second Stage Uptown, takes on professional basketball from the perspective of Liz Rico (K …Read more
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
