Samuel Beckett, perhaps the twentieth century’s greatest playwright, met his idol James Joyce in Paris during the late 1920s. The young writer actually assisted Joyce in the completion of his final work Finnegan’s Wake. What ideas passed in intimate …Read more
Keisha Zollar is an improviser and actress who is making waves in the comedy scene. She performs weekly on the Lloyd team ‘Astronomy Club’ at UCB East, and you may also have seen her on Orange is the New Black, featured in October’s issue of Glamour …Read more
Leo Tolstoy alleged, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” With all the flair of a magician, Heidi Schreck conjures both in her new play Grand Concourse, now running at Playwrights Horizons …Read more
William Goulet is the writer/director of Filler, a serio-comedy about Marian and Adler, a married couple whose lives are irrevocably changed by the visit of two repairmen. The world premiere play opened Sunday at 64E4, and Mr. Goulet was kind enough …Read more
It might seem like a curious thing for an off-Broadway show to premiere at 11 a.m. on a weekday, but at The Actors Temple Theatre there is a method to such madness. The Love Note, a new musical written by Gail Phaneuf and directed by Russell Garrett, …Read more
What do you get when you blend Shakespeare’s poetry and film? The Sonnet Project! Developed by New York Shakespeare Exchange (NYSX), a theater company that offers innovative theatrical experiences with the purpose of “exploring what happens when cont …Read more
Iliana Inocencio has been rocking the character and improv circuit at People’s Improv Theatre, and has also appeared on MTV Girl Code, Gossip Girl, various PIT TV sketches and the NBC Diversity Showcase. You can catch her solo show Iliana Night Live, …Read more
David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones took the Tony for Best Play in 1972. It also – and I remember it well – shook up New York theater like a 5 on the Richter scale. Nothing before had so slammed together ideas of classic Americana and the broken jetsam of …Read more
SOLOCOM, The PIT’s annual solo show festival, begins in just a few days, so I decided to get to know some of the performers a little more. First we have Nancy Lombardo, a comedian who always steps outside the box with her dialogue, jokes and song par …Read more
In their production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the New York Deaf Theatre presents an outstanding, interpretive rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story. The ensemble, made up of deaf, ASL-fluent and hearing voice actor …Read more