Masturbation, middle age, and the declining health of prostates starts Stephen Belber’s comedic play about waning friendship. Fault Lines chronicles the bromance between Jim (Neil Holland) and Bill (Chaz Reuben) as they meet at an old haunt for Bill’ …Read more
Waiting for Godot has been staged time and time again, in many different contexts and by many different casts, since its Paris premiere in January, 1953, over 60 years ago. However, after seeing what at first glance seemed an odd theatrical choice — …Read more
Clickbait, now playing at the Access Theater, is an interactive theater piece that poses multiple questions that deserve stage time: how can mental illness and suicide affect a community as a whole? How do we reconcile who we want to be and who we re …Read more
The promotional material on Dylan Coburn Gray’s Boys and Girls, part of the 1st Irish Festival, describes it well: “Emerging from the Irish spoken word scene, this play paints the Dublin nightscape in pyrotechnic verse; 4 intercut voices muse, tease, …Read more
The turbulent waters of friendship are explored in Ruby Rae Spiegel’s hard-hitting and moving new play Dry Land, now playing at the HERE Arts Center in a Colt Coeur production. The play mostly takes place in the girls’ locker room of a high school in …Read more
Director/choreographer extraordinaire Keith Lee Grant leads the talented actors of Harlem Repertory Theatre. We had a chance to talk to the three-time Audelco winner about the origins of Harlem Repertory and the company’s production of Langston Hugh …Read more
When there is chemistry between two people, they sometimes create a little smoke. In the titillating one-act, two-person play Smoke by Kim Davies, the heat generated by the characters gets so intense, you wonder if they’re going to get burned. At a h …Read more
Red Eye of Love, an old-fashioned musical with a few absurd twists, delivers an enjoyable and refreshing evening of fun. Produced by Amas Musical Theatre and playing at the Dicapo Theatre, Red Eye of Love gives the kind of pleasure one gets from Four …Read more
Dream Up Festival’s production Muse, by Crystal Field and Shakespeare’s Sister Company, is everything you could hope for in a gothic Victorian romance play. The costumes are beautifully authentic, the props apropos, and the love story — oh, the love …Read more
Tomorrow’s Dawn is a sweet and funny musical about being a teenager. The play explores love, friendship, family, and the gamut of emotions that plagues all young adults who are on the verge of discovering themselves. While the performance delves into …Read more