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

There are stories so true and yet so bleak that many people don’t really want to hear them. Life Without Parole is one of these. Yet the play, produced by Working Artists Theatre Project in association with Karah Gravatt and Robert Tyrer and presente …Read more

In his show Hoaxocaust!, now playing at the New York International Fringe Festival, writer and performer Barry Levey satirizes the arguments of Holocaust deniers like Arthur Butz, David Irving, Robert Faurisson, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while also as …Read more

Last week, I had the pleasure of reviewing Lisa Flanagan’s one-woman Fringe Festival show La Donna Improvvisata. In it, Flanagan improvises a 60-minute opera with nothing but her wits and a pianist, and does so effortlessly. I strongly recommend chec …Read more

In the mid-1920’s the Marx Brothers were perhaps the most celebrated entertainers in the United States, after a successful career in vaudeville they transitioned to Broadway where they continued making people laugh with their combination of surreal, …Read more