Richard Pearson Thomas’ comic opera A Wake or a Wedding, now playing at the Rose Nagelberg Theater/Baruch Performing Arts Center, receives a vivacious world premiere production from Encompass New Opera Theater, a company dedicated to creating, develo …Read more
If birth is the sweetest ache of motherhood, then loss of a child must be hell’s torment. Sarah Ruhl’s newest play, The Oldest Boy, touches hell. Premiering at Lincoln Center, The Oldest Boy is the third play in the ongoing relationship Lincoln Cente …Read more
I heard it said once that theater is everywhere, but I don’t know if I ever really invested in that corny platitude until last Friday, when I had the pleasure of seeing a truly moving piece of stagecraft miles away from the lights of Broadway in a ch …Read more
John R. Waters has been playing John Lennon for more than two decades. In Lennon: Through a Glass Onion he becomes a version of the late singer without relying on makeup or costumes to help him achieve this transformation. Instead, he appears on stag …Read more
When the lights rise on William Goulet’s new play Filler, the off-kilter relationship between its central characters, Marian (Gabriele Schafer) and Adler (Ross Pivec), is firmly established: She is trying to walk him through a sexual role-play sessio …Read more
The York Theatre Company hit its 100th Musicals In Mufti on November 8 with their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night. The company’s dedication to nurturing lesser-known works deserving of a second look has earned its shows 31 Drama Desk, …Read more
Nefarious Laboratory’s Awesome People, part of the 3rd Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival, showcased a multitude of storytelling talent, hosted by Brad Lawrence, a favorite with Moth audiences. In the teeny black-box theater UNDER St. Marks, four pe …Read more
The People’s Improv Theater is hosting the second annual all-new solo comedy festival, bringing you up to 80 performances November 14-16. Each hour only costs $5 and holds a unique adventure of solo performances ranging from 60 minutes to 15 minutes …Read more
A few thousand years later, not a whole lot surpasses the Oresteia of Aeschylus in terms of good old-fashioned family dysfunction on an epic scale. The myriad conflicts of the House of Atreus do not ever die, the bloody ends of its primary members as …Read more
Summer is behind us but this weekend The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), an organization that has filled New York City’s hunger for new, emerging and eclectic musical offerings during the slow summer months, will celebrate their 2014 season …Read more