From the African-American experience to the choppy waters of international adoption, award-winning playwright Tanya Barfield is not afraid of a challenge. Her courageous writing has been awarded with a Lilly Award, a Helen Merrill Award, and a Pulitz …Read more
It’s a post-sexual revolution world and Rosario is hung up on the 1970s counterculture she was once a part of. The glory days are over for this flamenco dancer and now she hangs around an old stage in San Diego, waiting for someone, anyone, to show u …Read more
The Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to become a bona fide cult classic. The original cast recording featuring No …Read more
You may call what James Lecesne does in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (at Dixon Place) what you will — performance art, a one-man-show, a monodrama. What it is, decidedly, is an invigorating theatre experience, both moving and highly ente …Read more
Tony-winner Lillias White has the kind of voice that’s both majestic and soothing, qualities that perfectly fit the real-life character she’s currently playing onstage in Alan Govenar’s Texas in Paris. White plays Osceola Mays, an elderly Texan widow …Read more
In Rasheeda Speaking, Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins plays Jaclyn, an office worker pitted against her co-worker Ileen (played by Oscar winner Dianne Wiest) when claims of arrogance and incompetence against the former, force the latter to supervise her ev …Read more
For his theatrical debut in New York City, Austin Smith is hitting the ground running in a big way. His lead role in An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience encompasses not one but three characters, including a portrayal of the playwright, Branden …Read more
Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch is half a biting satire about the world of fashion, half a story about a woman trying to find her true self. The plot is composed of two storylines that eventually complement each other, the first one set in 19 …Read more
When Adah Isaacs Menken died in 1868, at the very young age of 33, she left behind a legacy that included several failed marriages, friendships with the likes of Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas and George Sand, not to mention a legendary performance …Read more
Our lives are so often mundane and prosaic compared to the mischief we find in our theaters. You rarely pay your ticket price to watch someone wrestle with supermarket sales or indulge in a Netflix marathon after a tedious day of licking envelopes. V …Read more