While moviegoers continued flocking to the theaters to see Thor, Captain America and the Hulk battle it out against Ultron in The Avengers sequel, on May 4th at Carnegie Hall there was a different kind of superhero assembly, as the brightest stars of …Read more
Arriving in New York in the very season when Bruce Jenner’s personal revelations have put questions about gender in the headlines, Viola di Mare is certainly timely. The monodrama, written and acted by Isabella Carloni, underscores the ways in which …Read more
Our first love may fade over the years, but it never truly goes away. In his original play the lighthouse invites the storm, titled after Malcolm Lowry’s first collection of poetry, Josh Drimmer explores what happens when one willingly revisits those …Read more
Having been so impressed with The Gallery Players’ previous production, the lighthearted and ensemble-focused The Baker’s Wife, I was somewhat taken aback by the company’s darker and disjointed production of Evita. Not that the two shows should be co …Read more
SEE or SKIP: The Heidi Chronicles VENUE: Broadway’s Music Box Theater, to May 3, 2015. INFO: Theatergoers have just a few more performances to catch Pam MacKinnon’s staging of The Heidi Chronicles, Pam MacKinnon’s revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s 1989 …Read more
Having just had the pleasure of seeing Fiasco Theatre’s brilliant production of Into the Woods with Roundabout Theatre Company, I was very much looking forward to their take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Theatre for a New Audience at the Polons …Read more
Those looking for something raw, unique, and devastating in a theater experience will find it in Trash Cuisine. The production from the Belarus Free Theatre is an unnerving depiction of the torture and execution of political prisoners, past and prese …Read more
It seems that the more we age and learn about the world, the less we really know about those who shaped ours growing up. What we once believed to be absolute truths, slowly reveal themselves to be nothing but images we composed to our convenience; bu …Read more
The effect of witnessing Yael Farber’s Nirbhaya unfold can only be marginally described or captured. I am not yet critic enough to dare to criticize it, to look at it with the cutting lens of a careful eye. The title, meaning ‘fearless,’ is also the …Read more
The T. Schreiber Studio for Theatre & Film, one of the country’s foremost professional theatre organizations, hosted their 46th Anniversary Gala on Sunday April 26, 2015. This year’s event honored Academy Award-nominated actor Edward Norton, as w …Read more