It might seem like a curious thing for an off-Broadway show to premiere at 11 a.m. on a weekday, but at The Actors Temple Theatre there is a method to such madness. The Love Note, a new musical written by Gail Phaneuf and directed by Russell Garrett, …Read more

What do you get when you blend Shakespeare’s poetry and film? The Sonnet Project! Developed by New York Shakespeare Exchange (NYSX), a theater company that offers innovative theatrical experiences with the purpose of “exploring what happens when cont …Read more

Iliana Inocencio has been rocking the character and improv circuit at People’s Improv Theatre, and has also appeared on MTV Girl Code, Gossip Girl, various PIT TV sketches and the NBC Diversity Showcase. You can catch her solo show Iliana Night Live, …Read more

David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones took the Tony for Best Play in 1972. It also – and I remember it well – shook up New York theater like a 5 on the Richter scale. Nothing before had so slammed together ideas of classic Americana and the broken jetsam of …Read more

SOLOCOM, The PIT’s annual solo show festival, begins in just a few days, so I decided to get to know some of the performers a little more. First we have Nancy Lombardo, a comedian who always steps outside the box with her dialogue, jokes and song par …Read more

In their production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the New York Deaf Theatre presents an outstanding, interpretive rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story. The ensemble, made up of deaf, ASL-fluent and hearing voice actor …Read more

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