Financial Slavery: The College Debt Sentence, produced by Strength Out of Shadows and directed by Jennifer Little and Michael Pinnix, has developed from the painful, often traumatic and all-too-familiar tales of people who have to cope with the risin …Read more
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” That voice. Those eyes. The impenetrable stare. Bette Davis was much more than a talented actress with a memorable on-screen presence. During a time when female casting meant measuring little m …Read more
Whether it’s a politically biased news anchor, or a comic discussing how men like shopping and should shut up when women watch the sports game, finding a cultural figure whose perspective isn’t polarized can be challenging. It’s always refreshing to …Read more
When Penn & Teller arrived on the scene in the early 1980s they quickly earned a reputation as magical vandals. It wasn’t just the brash attitude, the violence and the sick sense of humor they employed (remember the thousands of cockroaches skitt …Read more
Clifford Odets’ Depression-era classic, Awake and Sing!, now playing at the Public Theater, is about the Bergers, a lower middle class Jewish family living in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. The conceit in this production, put on by the National A …Read more
Ruby Preston’s third novel, Starstruck, to be released by Dress Circle Publishing on July 14th, gets real about what happens behind the flash of the bright lights of Broadway. The characters in this novel by Preston (a real-life Broadway producer) in …Read more
Ciarán O’Reilly is a founding member of The Irish Repertory Theatre, the only company in North America dedicated to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. He is also the director of The Weir, the current production at the Irish Rep, co …Read more
The Weir – Conor McPherson’s most popular play – is generally billed as a ghost story. It has the creeping, ominous tone of horror, and it has a few tale-by-the-campfire-style monologues as well. And even though the Irish Repertory theatre advertises …Read more
Beautiful voices, catchy little tunes and lots of sweet science geekiness abound in Black Hole Wedding by Katherine Brann Fredericks and Paul Edward Nelson. This big, fun ambitious musical comedy has everything from a black hole trash compactor to th …Read more
In its nearly twenty year lifespan, Ballet NY has managed to create a truly spectacular experience for dance-goers, choreographers, designers and its crème de la crop dancers. The whole spirit of Ballet NY is one of inspiration, innovation and artist …Read more
