In Dirt, Austrian-American actor Christopher Domig plays Sad, an Iraqi immigrant living illegally in an unnamed metropolis. Sad spends his days selling roses to people who more often than not don’t even seem to notice he’s there. He reminds himself c …Read more
With titles like Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary?, A T Stop Named Denial and All About Christmas Eve, Ryan Landry and his Gold Dust Orphans have turned the parody into a formidable artform. Combining elements from some of the most beloved films, play …Read more
Just a few weeks ago Michael McNamara wasn’t on anyone’s radar including that of acclaimed Broadway Music Director, Orchestrator and Producer, Kim Scharnberg. But all that changed when Katriona Dean uploaded a McNamara’s soulful rendition of A Great …Read more
It’s always difficult to surprise in a story about dysfunctional siblings. However, Ruth and Naomi, a play following Naomi’s attempts to escape the suffocating dependency of her disabled younger sister Ruth, defies all expectations with beautifully w …Read more
The fifteenth annual EstroGenius Festival kicks off October 2, for one month of short plays, one-woman shows, and dance pieces celebrating the female voice. Founded in 2000 by Fiona Jones and Manhattan Theater Source, the festival showcases art that, …Read more
I Am Me, playing through October 13th throughout New York, is a site un-specific one-woman show, animating the writing of Russian playwright Alexandra Chichkanova. Conceived and performed by Nicole Kontolefa, who studied acting at Studio Six in Mosco …Read more
I’ll admit that when I first heard about the PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Old Man and The Old Moon at the New Victory Theater, I was skeptical. Despite all the hype and my editors raving about the show, I had reservations. After all, there were to be sha …Read more
A genuine Italian pizza joint is nothing if not a multi-purpose, American space, a place for family get-togethers, meetings, reunions, casual lunches. So it’s pretty cheeky that Sean J. Quinn set his middle-class, dark comedy, Money Grubbin’ Whores, …Read more
Having seen Ira Lewis’s Chinese Coffee nearly 24 hours ago, I remain catatonic in regard to relating the evening: there is simply too much to say. This is the kind of excellent two-character drama in which a galaxy of possibilities erupts every few m …Read more
What is the role of mythology in theater? What is the role of the document, of the act of witnessing? How can the two combine to reach the deeper personal and artistic truths in a time and place of crisis, and what happens when that place is both you …Read more