Two disclaimers: this is not a new version of the Richard Rodgers 1962 musical, No Strings, and; this reviewer confesses to having had pre-curtain anxiety. As in a disinclination to see a play about three gay men struggling with sexual entitlement (i …Read more

Whenever I read that an off-off Broadway theater company is putting on an eighty-year-old farce, my face instinctually contorts into the most apathetic, judgmental, completely involuntary eye-roll that it can possibly form. I don’t say this with prid …Read more

The son of Phineas Fenn – a skinny Hitchcock presenter – invites the audience to share in his father’s covert history, and everybody’s off to summer camp, as it were. Drop Dead Perfect by Erasmus Fenn (funny about the names, eh?) then reveals the twi …Read more

No show should be allowed to be as fun as Mark LaPierre’s Zombie Strippers. Set in the graveyard of an unnamed city, the show plays out like a Scooby-Doo episode imagined by the people behind Porky’s. Tiffany (Elle Bensinger) and Jinx (Sariah) are tw …Read more

Imagine that Sally Field had played Norma Rae using Carol Channing’s Dolly Levi as inspiration, and you can only begin to conceive the way in which Lynne Wintersteller takes hold of the stage as the title character in Mother Jones and the Children’s …Read more

It’s 1793 and Madame Marie Tussaud, 32, has just been commissioned by revolutionaries to make Queen Marie Antoinette’s death mask; the infamous Madame Deficit, as she was called in pamphlets, who had been guillotined a few weeks before her 38th birth …Read more

Looking for a play that you’ll not only enjoy but will also give you insight into the human condition?  Love and Human Remains, now playing at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, is a twisted, edgy ride that might leave you feeling a little queasy. Written …Read more

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a cult 1998 punk rock musical written by and starring John Cameron Mitchell, with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, is back onstage. The gritty rock musical has softened its edges a bit for Broadway, but Hedwig, the transg …Read more

Christopher Anselmo’s and H.S. Kaufman’s Fable is, in a word, tricky. The musical is set at a high school graduation party and, if you’re thinking maybe a Breakfast Club with songs, you’re not far off. You will also be in the ballpark if you conjure …Read more

We sat down with the cast of the hit off-Broadway phenomenon Heathers the Musical at a recent Barnes and Noble CD signing of their soundtrack, and asked the question on the mind of every true Heathers fan (or “Corn Nut”): “You inherit five million do …Read more