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
Parents of prospective private school students, take note: even recommendations from George Clooney or Pope Francis will not guarantee you a spot at the school of your choice. The world of New York private school admissions is notoriously competitive …Read more
If you’re looking to see a truly realized production of master American dramatist Sam Shepard’s work, look no further than the White Horse Theater Company’s production of Eyes for Consuela at the Gene Frankel Theatre. This four-person drama inspired …Read more
I am an avid collector of quotes about living an authentic life, and after seeing The Lion, written and performed by award winning singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, I have a new one from the title song for my collection: Inside my gentle paw …Read more
It is a great feat in theater to create a universe so full and so convincing that it sits with audience members, deep in their gut, long after they leave the theater. Such was the case in Miranda Theatre Company’s Off-Broadway production of Joe Pinta …Read more
The first time I heard about Hypokrit Theater’s “Bollywood” version of “Romeo & Juliet” I thought – wow, that’s a fun idea. On several occasions when it’s been mentioned in conversation, people have immediately latched into the concept and have s …Read more
As the world marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, New York audiences are given a gift in Miwa Yanagi’s visually splendid theater piece, Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape, which opens the Japan Society’s series Stories from the War. Using as …Read more
