In Abingdon Theater Company’s It Has To Be You, three children reunite in their old family home after a neighbor tips them off that their elderly mother may be demented. Comedy ensues when the trio learn that their mother, far from demented, has take …Read more
Fourteen years ago in Ireland, an aunt and three nieces locked themselves in their home and began a forty day hunger strike that ended in all of their deaths. While some say it was a political action, others suspect they did it for puritanical religi …Read more
Brad Zimmerman turns his failure at a traditional success story into a great running joke for his one-man stand-up show, My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy. Most mothers dream of their sons becoming doctors, lawyers, businessmen. Zimmerman spent nea …Read more
It turns out, as I discovered last night at The York Theatre’s “Musicals in Mufti” performance of BIG, sometimes being forced to eat your words can be an entirely wonderful experience. I arrived at the theater unfamiliar with the term “Mufti” but Jam …Read more
Before The Shining, Poltergeist, and “Children of the Corn”, there was The Turn of the Screw. Henry James’s 1898 novella drove home a truth that parents or caretakers know all too well: children can be really, really scary. In James’s time ghost stor …Read more
Most of us celebrate our birthdays with a few close friends, one too many tequila shots, and cake (on which we’ll subsist for the next couple of days as well), but Emmy-award-winning composer, Lance Horne is celebrating it with a unique show at Birdl …Read more
National Black Theatre consistently brings revolutionary work to Harlem and is a staple in conversations about the black experience and theater in New York. In their 46th Season, dedicated to black women playwrights, they are bringing Carnaval by Ob …Read more
You begin to understand that you are not entirely safe as a theater-goer before you even take your seat for Going Once! Laughing Twice!! In lowbrow tux and sneakers, Brian Jaffe – who authored the play – barrels through the crowd to bully the poor b …Read more
The Assembly Theater Project’s latest production, That Poor Dream, written collectively by its members and the performers and directed by Jess Chayes, takes a unique approach to age-old class struggle. Inspired by Dickens’ Great Expectations, and set …Read more
There are records of people soaking in hot water pools, for relaxation and medicinal purposes, that go back at least ten thousand years. Hot springs and baths were an essential part of life in Rome, Egypt and Greece, and Native Americans swore by the …Read more