Those currently residing in New York City can’t escape the fear of the ever annoying bedbug — the little creatures have even found their way into our subway system.  On the plus side, our city’s infestation has inspired a wonderfully outrageous orig …Read more

The terrible beauty of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is how it deeply reveals the cause of human unhappiness. To quote the Buddha, suffering comes from attachment and the inability to accept what is. Each of the main four characters in The Pearl Theatr …Read more

“I didn’t want to be a nurse, I wanted to be a rapper.” — Craig “muMs” Grant I should confess my bias: One, I don’t love one-man shows. Two, I have a massive artistic crush on Craig “muMs” Grant. All things considered, Mr. Grant doesn’t disappoint w …Read more

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks about his patients case histories, contains stories so remarkable that they far surpass the fantasies of fiction. The Valley of Astonishment, written and directed by Peter …Read more

What is more profitable than Titanic, Avatar or any single Harry Potter or Star Wars film? The Lion King! No, not the movie, the musical! Yes, theater fans, that’s right, what was once thought impossible, or at least highly unlikely, has finally happ …Read more

The Innovative Theatre Awards have come a long way. This years show was a technically superior production that brings small theater up several notches. It’s nice to see the efforts of these artists celebrated in a way that truly honers them. It was h …Read more

It is not easy to pull off a one-man show, ever. It is less easy to do this when the show is a personal history because these things so, so frequently become funky sermons or demands for attention to experiences not necessarily riveting to anyone but …Read more

Mr. Landing Takes A Fall, now playing at The Flea Theater, was written, according to the playwright Sari Caine, as a reaction to misunderstanding another play, Harold Pinter’s The Room. It’s quite clear that Mr. Landing was written while feelings of …Read more

Suzanne Tanner’s Beyond Me: A Song Cycle in the Key of Survival, is a solo effort and it is not. It is very much a collaboration on the stage at Theatre Row, and of an extremely intimate nature. Tanner presents, in multimedia and relying on extensive …Read more

Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will host the 6th Annual Broadway Salutes, Tuesday, September 23 at Anita’s Way, the public space next to the Stephen Sondheim Theater (West 43rd Street, between 6th and Broadway) at 3:30pm. Broadway Salutes, is a j …Read more