Anton Dudley’s fascinating new play City Of, a production of The Playwrights Realm at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, explores living in “The In-Between” — what one character in City Of calls “the sustained waking dream…eternal twilight: entre chien et …Read more

Recently I had the pleasure of seeing a one-woman show called A Kind Shot, a lovely, raw and emotional piece written and performed by Terri Mateer at the Davenport Theater in Midtown. Walking into the theater, the first thing you notice is a bare set …Read more

Sometimes a star just has it. Not just talent, not just a special quality, but a presence that will make theatergoers (especially female theatergoers) throw money at the opportunity to be in his presence (or catch his sweat-drenched garments). Such a …Read more

It’s back!  Since 1995 the Riant Theater has been bringing together a terrific collection of one-act plays for New York theater fans. It’s great fun to go to the festival because you get to see several plays at the same time. Highly recommended! Now …Read more

Philip Barry’s 1932 comedy The Animal Kingdom — revived by the Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective and directed by Jacob Titus — is less well known than Barry’s Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), both of which became film vehicles f …Read more

“How did he do that?” According to magician/storyteller Nelson Lugo, this is not the important question. The important question is “Why?” And so, in his autobiographical one-man show Gathering the Magic, Lugo tells his audience why, for him, magic is …Read more

An older former couple reflecting on the trajectory of their relationship. A 25-year-old woman losing her virginity. A gay man witnessing a motel room gang bang. A romance between two people who have never met in the flesh. All are stories played out …Read more

MUSIC DIRECTOR STEVEN REINEKE LEADS THE ORCHESTRA’S FIVE CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION SERIES AT CARNEGIE HALL, OPENING OCTOBER 9, 2015 New York, NY — On October 9, 2015, The New York Pops – a symphonic orchestra known for presenting popular programs of excep …Read more

Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country is one of the most beloved comedies of manners in all of Russian theatre, and yet it seems that the current Classic Stage Company production has skipped the comedy and merely focused on the manners. Set in the c …Read more

Shesh Yak, now playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a ruthless two hander about two men whose past trails them like stray dogs.  It is the spring of 2011, five weeks into the civil uprising in Syria, and we are in Jameel’s tiny apartment, c …Read more