Inspired by Paris’ legendary playhouse of horror, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol, Blood Brothers productions presents Bedlam Nightmares: Execution Day, an anthology of short plays focused on the bizarre, the horrific and the insane. The show is currentl …Read more

Sometimes it’s not so simple to get your voice heard. Sometimes you have to fight for it. And that’s exactly what the EstroGenius Festival has been doing for fifteen years. Despite losing their home with theater company Manhattan Theater Source in 20 …Read more

Part of the thrill of interviewing people involved with the theater is getting an insider’s glimpse into the hectic day to day of life on and around the stage. I caught up with producer Andi Cohen on Monday night after I saw the aptly titled “Andi’s …Read more

Turning the Glass Around is a poignant drama about a Korean American man’s unraveling following the death of his father. Written by Pia Wilson and now playing at Teatro Circulo, the play is an in-depth exploration of grief and mental illness in the f …Read more

Excuse My Dust (A Dorothy Parker Portfolio) is created and performed by Jennifer Engstrom with honesty, rawness and empathy. Parker, American poet and writer who died in 1967, is portrayed as a woman misunderstood by society and in constant despair o …Read more

Vinnie Favale’s path to the New York stage is not exactly typical.  The CBS Vice President of Late Night, he started writing the songs that would eventually become part of Hereafter Musical as expressive outlet 11 years ago; it wasn’t until he partne …Read more

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