Walking home from Dixon Place, the “laboratory for performance” in the Lower East Side, I’m not sure if I was any closer to understanding exactly what a ‘War Lesbian’ is than I was when I walked into the theater. And yet, what transpired over the cou …Read more
Tobly McSmith, Co-Writer, Director and Producer of Bayside! The Musical! (And Showgirls! The Musical) took some time out of his busy schedule (decorating the homeless like Christmas trees) to answer some questions we had about the show’s Christmas sp …Read more
Are you looking for gift for a theater lover? Or maybe just a holiday present for yourself? Broadway’s end of year close-out may be just the ticket for you. Check out some of the shows that will be leaving the Great White Way by Martin Luther King Da …Read more
Honeymoon in Vegas, the new Jason Robert Brown/Andrew Bergman musical in previews at the Nederlander Theater, may be one of Broadway’s most promising shows of the season so far. Based on the movie by the same name, the show boasts an exception …Read more
All That Dies and Rises is a mashup of movement and words sprawled over a blank white stage devised by physical theatre company Cloud of Fools and directed by James Rutherford of theatre company M-34. Taking excerpts from the works of famous writers …Read more
If you’re unfamiliar with Shrunken Shakespeare Company, now is a great time to get to know this classical theatre company with a contemporary edge. Their newest project, What We Know: An American Retelling of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, is an entertain …Read more
Soul Doctor, the somewhat biographical musical of rebel rock star Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach is poised for its official Off-Broadway opening on Sunday, December 14, at The Actor’s Temple. Now revamped and reimagined as a one-act using the songbook …Read more
Just sitting in El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio before Gotham Chamber Opera and Tectonic Theater Project’s production of El gato con botas (Puss in Boots) begins is a visual prelude to the magical hour of music, storytelling and puppetry that …Read more
The theatrical event that contains the most Christmas Spirit might not be at either Radio City or Madison Square Garden. In Fields Where They Lay, an incredible new play by Ricardo Pérez González, doesn’t feature Santa, or Elves, or Grinches, or Who’ …Read more
The Irish Repertory’s production of A Christmas Memory has all the makings of a seasonal classic: a heartwarming story, beautiful music and a brilliant star turn by Alice Ripley who plays Sook, the child-like distant cousin of young Buddy, played by …Read more