To quote our old pal Billy Shakespeare, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Walking out of Theater for the New City’s double feature opera program, The Power of Love, you might think truer words have never been spoken. Now normally I woul …Read more

Murder, Margaret and Me has had a highly successful run in England and recently enjoyed its American premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival. The one-woman show portrays the relationship between three English icons. Two are real, myste …Read more

The second play of Anne L. Thompson-Scretching’s Blood Trilogy, A Long Way From Home puts you in the middle of a family crisis where a large amount of money is missing and we don’t know who to believe.  As the play unfolds, we’re educated on black-ba …Read more

Oracle Theater Inc presents a compelling historical story about the men who fought for our country in the first World War, and the challenges they faced upon their return. Through the strategic use of culturally relevant music, character metaphors, a …Read more

Pluck the characters out of classic drama, spin them around, and set them in motion in variations of the story they have inhabited forever. It’s an exciting device, which Tom Stoppard beautifully put on the map with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are D …Read more

The project of documentary theatre has a legacy as a unique cultural space where fact and fiction, reportage and art, intersect. Especially in its more recent iterations, it begs the question of what role theater, re-enactment on stage, can have in t …Read more

Imagine having the opportunity to create your own play. I’m talking building it from the ground up – writing it, developing it, casting it, marketing it, and yes, starring in it. Most people would be lucky to pull off one of these skills, but having …Read more

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