After sitting through Ean Miles Kessler’s new play Devil Lay Me Down, you are certain to go home and call your family, thanking them for the mild dysfunction and charming embarrassments of your youth — for it is nothing compared to this parable of b …Read more
Summer Blue, a part of the 2014 Dream Up Festival, is a combination of theater, dance, and performance art set to a deep blues score. It is also a means to further dialogue about our country’s most pressing issue: inequality. Whether you’ve been a vi …Read more
You might have read playwright Ean Miles Kessler’s short play Brotherly Love in Shorter, Faster Funnier published by Vintage Books or Funny Valentine from the Plays for Two compilation. Maybe you saw King’s River or Beautiful Hands. All in all, he’ …Read more
‘I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.’ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov His Majesty, The Devil is a family affair. The actors playing the Visitor (MacIntyre Dixon) and …Read more
This 2012 Princess Grace Fellow Award-winning play by Matthew Paul Olmos is the first of the three-play cycle exploring drug cartels between Mexico and United States. así van los fantasmas de méxico, primera parte (so go the ghosts of mexico, part on …Read more
It’s bothersome to be old and crusty, and have a new, young playwright shatter your conviction that talent is a thing of the past. This is exactly what occurred to me upon seeing Colin Drucker’s Mother’s Day as part of the New York International Frin …Read more
The Elephant in the Room begins with a distinct atmosphere of menace, and at first I could not put my finger on what was causing it. Three young women: roommates Felicia, Quinn and Talia, squeezed tightly together on a small couch, address the audien …Read more
What’s a heartbroken, and lonely artist to do when he can’t get over the death of his beloved three years after she dies? Why, buy a Polaroid camera and revisit all their old familiar places trying to reconstruct their relationship, of course. Direct …Read more
If nothing else, Walter Ventosilla’s adaptation and direction of Oedipus reflects extraordinary ambition. This is an interpretation designed not to deconstruct the Sophocles classic, but to re-imagine its meaning through a single actress. Emely Grisa …Read more
One of the greatest opportunities New York City brings to the people during summertime is varied “Shakespeare in the Park” series across Manhattan. And while tickets for the Public’s productions in Central Park may be hard to come by, at Bryant Park, …Read more
