Despite of the sheer optimism evoked by her name, Sunny (Jennifer Lim), the heroine in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness has a life that’s anything but. Born to a family of peasants in the People’s Republic of China, as a newborn …Read more
The Memory Show tells a simple story: a daughter (Leslie Kritzer) moves back home to take care of her mother (Catherine Cox) who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The two women have clashed throughout their entire lives, and illness doesn’t seem t …Read more
Penned by the late Jovanka Bach and directed/produced by her widower, John Stark, O’Neill’s Ghosts is a portrait of playwright Eugene O’Neill at the time he wrote his acknowledged masterwork, the largely autobiographical Long Day’s Journey into Night …Read more
The Great White Way and graphic design have had a long, storied love affair, from the simple lines of a Hirschfeld caricature to the show-selling broadsheets, cab toppers and streetlamp pennants that seem to grab the man on the street by his sharp la …Read more
Josh Gondelman: comedian, writer, former teacher, and all around fantastic cardigan-loving guy. You may know him as the co-creator of the genius Modern Seinfeld Twitter handle. Maybe you have seen his work in esteemed publications like The New Yorker …Read more
Few festivals can stake claim to the diversity of work that Cabrini Theater’s Venus/Adonis Festival delivers. An almost altruistic championing of new work, Cabrini offers a singular playground for playwrights both emerging and established. If the six …Read more
“Remember, after rain, there’s always sunshine.” After pulling off a major heist against a rival gang, the Five, a band of misfits and provisional brothers congregate in their clubhouse to celebrate their big win. They have the easy rapport of boys w …Read more
Long Story Short, a musical pop/rock drama from Prospect Theater Company now at 59E59, relates 50 years in a couple’s life, from how they first meet and start dating, to getting married and having children, to growing old together. An adaptation of D …Read more
The Baker’s Wife is a lesser known musical written by Joseph Stein (The Fiddler on the Roof) with music by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked) that enjoyed only a brief run in London’s West End in 1989 and has yet to be produced for a Broadway stage, t …Read more
Everyone has a favorite movie, but odds are you’re not able to reenact almost every scene of it, sprinkle in some humor and entertain a packed theater. Nick Abeel, Kyle Schaefer, and Foley artist Kelsey Didion are doing just that with Hold On To Your …Read more
