Lift, a new play by acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley, is captivating upon setting foot into 59E59 Theaters. The exposed set, designed by Andrei Onegin, defines the specificity of the situation: the elevator car of a Manhattan skyscraper. The entire a …Read more

Melissa Ritz, who would have been described years ago as a leggy blonde, is a woman on a quest. In brief, she abandoned a long and profitable career as a cocktail server in Vegas for the New York theater scene, and New York is none the worse for it. …Read more

Death by excessive force has been an issue in our American culture for generations upon generations, and in light of recent fatalities in Ferguson and throughout the country, it’s important to ask ourselves what we are doing to stop discrimination. P …Read more

Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre presents Carnaval a modern, provocative play about the sex tourism industry in Brazil, the commodification of the female body, the exploitation of the lower class and the consequences of what often happen …Read more

Buzz, that juicy, onomatopoetic word with so many meanings: insect noise, bustling activity, excited gossip. That last one might become especially apropos for Buzz, the new play by novelist and founding editor of n+1 magazine, Benjamin Kunkel. Before …Read more

James Dickey’s Deliverance, Godlight Theater Company’s world premier theatrical adaptation of Dickey’s 1970 novel, Deliverance, is a theatrical tour de force that will grab you from the moment you step into the theater and keep you in its grip well p …Read more

Everyone loves a good sports story and Secondary Pitch does not let down! As if the premise of a show about brothers and baseball weren’t enough of a draw, the world premiere production from Randomly Specific Theatre has the added bonus of viewing li …Read more

Grab a pint of your favorite ale and go UNDER St. Marks for a little time traveling with Wish Experience’s “drinkeractive comedy,” A Brief History of Beer. Set aboard the “Quantum Pint Machine” (yes, really) in a sort of Star Trek parody, complete wi …Read more

Watching The Belle of Amherst at the Westside Theater, I found myself reminded of a line in a Bob Dylan song where he rasps, “people tell me it’s a sin/to know and feel too much within.” Enter Emily Dickinson, The Belle herself, that mysterious figur …Read more

Two lost souls meet up for a night of redemption in YOLO! Productions presentation of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Danny (Michael Micalizzi) and Roberta (Nairoby Otero), each more screwed up than the other, are the only conscio …Read more