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

“Bi” the webseries premiered last week on YouTube, offering a refreshing look at otherwise unspoken subjects including New York youths, race, and Bisexuality. We met with writer and creator David Cork to talk about the show. What inspired you to make …Read more

When I sat down the other day with Steven Gallagher, I made up my mind to be a doofus. (Yes, sometimes it is a choice.) More exactly, I determined to ask the obvious, and from the get-go: just how much of his extraordinary Stealing Sam is autobiograp …Read more

In Grind writer/director Zachary Halley poses the question: do we ever really know who we’re talking to? Using a Grindr-like app to frame his story, he introduces us to the awkward, but brilliant Vincent (Anthony Rapp) and model Thane (Pasha Pellosie …Read more

Who knew that if it wasn’t for Robert Redford we wouldn’t have Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza, Fun Home or A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder? Yes, that Robert Redford, the same guy who made Barbra swoon in The Way We Were and who won …Read more