Little Women. Pride and Prejudice. Wuthering Heights. Jane Eyre. These are arguably the most iconic examples of 19th century literature written by women. They have endured for two hundred years with their strong characters, vivid settings, and insigh …Read more
Shakespeare Off-Broadway, a new company seeking to offer “evocative, affordable productions of William Shakespeare’s classic plays in an ongoing format,” makes its debut with one of Shakespeare’s best and most popular works, the romantic comedy Twelf …Read more
“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Three composers, one opera. This is the latest bold undertaking by Experiments in Opera, New York City’s highly unusual, composer-driven initiative. Matt …Read more
Paradox of the Urban Cliché by Craig “muMs” Grant is a gritty urban love story, full of swag and panache; style and grace; humor and pain. Presented by Poetic License, a company dedicated to the grey zone between theater and poetry, it is a truly str …Read more
In Delirium’s Daughters, a world premiere from the award-winning filmmaker and playwright Nicholas Korn, a father believes that his deceased wife has forbidden his three daughters to marry — until one suitor plays a series plays a series of tricks t …Read more
You walk up the creaky steps to McAlphin Hall at West Park Presbyterian Church only to find chandeliers and origami. Not your usual stage business. YOLO! Productions and The Great Griffon are mounting Animals Out of Paper, written by Pulitzer Prize f …Read more
In Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch, Christian Coulson plays Victor, a seemingly sadistic fashion designer living in 1970s New York, whose transgressive creative outbursts are only overshadowed by his utter lack of empathy for others, in parti …Read more
The newly released soundtrack for the film adaptation of The Last Five Years is an important album. Important for me because the Original Cast Recording of the musical on which it is based was one of the first physical copies of a cast album I ever o …Read more
Taking a date (or spouse, or significant other or affectionate parolee) out to a Broadway show is a no-brainer for Valentine’s Day. A show is both social and personal, the experience allowing relative strangers to spend two hours together without hav …Read more
Amtrak 284 Empire Service, part of the 2015 Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, and brought to audiences by Paloma D’Auria, tells the story of four young people aboard an Amtrak train, as they struggle to decipher their relationship statuses. Whil …Read more