When “Honeymoon in Vegas” played at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse two years ago, the musical seemed to be on a fast track to Broadway. Audiences had a blast, the cast boasted Rob McClure (coming off his brilliant notices for “Chaplin”) and Tony D …Read more

In life, we are taught to prepare for the worst but hope for the best. Never before has this popular adage had more poignancy than in The Actual Dance, written and performed by Samuel A. Simon. Instead of spending his golden years relaxing and celebr …Read more

When the curtain rises on January 20th at the Walter Kerr Theater, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder will have a new Monty Navarro. Jeff Kready will take over for the exiting Bryce Pinkham who leaves the production to join the upcoming productio …Read more

The closing of Broadway’s “Rock of Ages” next week brings not only a long-running show to an end but also, most probably, another kernel of theater history: Helen Hayes’s name on a marquee. In 1955, the Fulton Theater on West 46th Street was christen …Read more

The production design of Nick Payne’s Constellations has more in common with a scientific fair exhibition, or a hip club even, than your regular theatre set. A square platform surrounded by a thin fluorescent light at its center, with countless white …Read more

Composer and sound artist Ellen Reid, whose opera Winter’s Child is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison Projects, is keenly observant. As we meet up at Amy’s on 9th Avenue for a chat, I notice the depth to which she takes in …Read more

It made sense that playwright Kyoung H. Park took a moment before his play, Tala, to introduce the venue in which we sat. Founded over a century ago, The University Settlement in the Lower East Side is one of the very first community centers, a place …Read more

Sometimes you are fortunate to have an extraordinary experience in the theater, when all the elements come together gloriously. I received such a blessing at The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera that is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival and co-pr …Read more

“Time is unforgiving and thoughtless” says one of the characters in Leonardo Moreira’s O Jardim, a perfect line to sum up this pithy, devastating play about the capricious cruelty of memory. Three stories from three different times share the same set …Read more

The drums. The songs. The dance. And the people. The spirit of South Africa manifested through Africa Umoja: 20 Years Freedom and Democracy, a musical celebration of South African song and dance. The audience’s journey centered around the narrative o …Read more