Coming of age stories are usually seen through hazy golden filters that make everything seem more romantic than it was. They are also mostly told through male voices, which is why it was quite a delight to see how democratic A.R. Gurney’s What I Did …Read more

From the latest health food promises to the perpetual lure of junk food, our relationship with the food we eat is often a complicated one. This fraught relationship is the focus of What Are You Eating?, a new show by Eric Wright and Matt Singer curre …Read more

Ensemble Studio Theatre is kicking off its 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays this week with Series A. The Hell’s Kitchen hub is, as always, chock-a-block with emerging and established talent. I met with the six writers of the first leg right on the cusp …Read more

The past sneaks up on you when you least expect it to. That seems to be the idea at the center of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, which focuses on the friendship between composer Franklin Shepard (Jack Mosbacher), lyricist Charley Kringas ( …Read more

SEE or SKIP: Mamma Mia! Venue: Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater, to Sept. 3, 2015 INFO: They said Cats would be now and forever—it wasn’t. They thought The Fantasticks would never end, then it did, then it didn’t, then it almost did again. Who’da thunk …Read more

The Brick, where Buran Theatre is putting on Adam R. Burnett’s original play Mammoth: A De-Extinction Love Story, looks built for atmospheric and thought-provoking theatre, and this play certainly seems tailored to that aesthetic. The contrast betwee …Read more

The British are coming! Off Broadway, that is, as part of 59E59 Theaters’ Brits Off Broadway Festival, introducing American audiences to innovative works from the UK. Writer and director Lucia Cox pays homage to Anthony Burgess with her inspired adap …Read more

When the Signature Theatre commissioned a work from legendary South African playwright Athold Fugard, he retraced his steps back into an unfinished piece on Nukain Mabuza, a relatively unknown outsider artist, also South African, in order to create T …Read more

At The New York Pops’ Christmas 2014 concert, a young singer by the name of Arlo Hill practically stole the show from Kelli O’Hara and Matthew Morrison; performing a number called “Songs of Freedom: A Celebration of Chanukah”, the baritone’s voice fi …Read more

You’ve got to give it to Scott Siegel, he always knows how to surprise you. His Broadway by the Year series, now in its landmark fifteenth season, is a perennial reminder that Broadway is much more than its hits, and we were reminded of that with the …Read more