A thoughtful and realistic look into the depths of a woman’s right to choose, Melissa’s Choice takes audiences on one woman’s personal journey. Playwright Steven Somkin explores a controversial issue in a compassionate and insightful way. Under Mel C …Read more

With the glow of a flashlight and a stage set to look like a cabin alternate for Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead, Tiny Little Band’s newest production, Ghost Stories, is a sensory journey directed by Stefanie Abel Horowitz that touches on el …Read more

Fatalism, consumerism and a heady love triangle lead to a deliciously wicked conclusion in director Lucia Cox’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ One Hand Clapping. The 1961 novel, originally published in the UK under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, is a fri …Read more

Metropolitan Room will host the 2015 annual fundraising gala on Sunday, May 17th for Cabaret Cares/Help Is On The Way Today. Actress/singer Anita Gillette will receive The Ruth Kurtzman Lifetime Achievement Award and performers Gary Lizardo and Ricky …Read more

Coffee and Biscuit is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House set in 1950’s suburban America with puppets. At first, the idea seems outlandish and twee. A classic play that revolutionized the theatre and was a major step forward for feminism d …Read more

The fourth night of the IN SCENA! Italian Theater Festival NY was presented at the beautiful and intimate Casa Italiana in Greenwich Village. There in the downstairs auditorium, I experienced Cingomma, written and performed by the wildly talented Jes …Read more

SEE or SKIP: The Audience VENUE: Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, to June 28, 2015. INFO: Broadway continues its slavish Anglophilia with this look at the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Still in power at age 89, HRH came to power in 1952, whe …Read more

Godlight Theatre Company’s Cool Hand Luke begins how it ends. In the Brechtian-mode, it doesn’t pull any punches as to where Luke Jackson, convict, plumber and liberator, will end. A boot hill grave is written in this man’s stars and so, when the cho …Read more

NEWARK, NJ (April 22, 2015)—The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra celebrates the Great White Way with “Broadway Spectacular” NJSO POPS concerts May 30–31 in Newark and New Brunswick, respectively. Conductor Todd Ellison— music supervisor for the acclaime …Read more

Once, when I tried to argue that reality and game show TV is at an all time, depraved high, my father laughingly countered with Queen for a Day, a show that ran in the 1950s and ’60s when he was a kid, featuring female contestants who competed with o …Read more