Blessed Unrest and Teatri ODA of Kosova bring to the stage Doruntine, a mythical tale that traverses contemporary situations and evokes emotions that are often complicated and unresolved. The bilingual production doesn’t make any concessions for non- …Read more
When your Broadway musical is based on not one, but two, quite beloved properties, it seems like there would be little to do in order to recreate the magic of the previous incarnations, and that is precisely what the creators behind Finding Neverland …Read more
While there is nothing remotely original about the sitcom-like It Shoulda Been You, there’s also something perversely reactionary about it. It’s a musical about a wedding that singles out everything that could possibly go wrong during a ceremony, not …Read more
It makes sense that on many occasions during the length of Doctor Zhivago, the eponymous hero (played by Tam Mutu) is referred to as “Y.A.”, short for Yurii Andreyevich, and also a perfect, if unintentional, embodiment of the show’s adolescent intens …Read more
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop quite literally in Robert Askins’ Hand to God, an irreverent hybrid of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Avenue Q and The Beaver in which a demonic sock puppet called Tyrone takes over his creator Jason (Steven Boyer) leadin …Read more
John Ford’s drama ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore has been making audiences uncomfortable since its premiere in the 1630s. Its current incarnation, produced by the Red Bull Theatre Company and playing at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street, manages to elicit sig …Read more
Identity, self vs. state, radicalism, liberalism: there are just some of the themes at play in True Believer, a solo play developed at Theaterlab written by Asa Merritt and performed by Kersti Bryan. These themes collide in ways that are in equal par …Read more
Before the Irish Rep’s production of The Belle of Belfast begins, projections of Belfast during the Irish Troubles are projected onto a brick wall. Most of the photos are of friends posing and citizens going about their day. Interspersed among them, …Read more
Bard envy consumes the lead character of Something Rotten! an Elizabethan playwright by the name of Nick Bottom (Brian D’Arcy James) who simply can not understand why he’s unable to write a single hit, while his rival William Shakespeare (Christian B …Read more
Rye Silverman is a stand up comedian from Ohio rocking it in Los Angeles, and with her hilarious forthcoming album, Intimate Apparel, and a new role as ModCloth’s first transgender model (they even named a dress after her), she’s definitely one to wa …Read more