Hey, hey, LBJ, how many critics did you win over today? That’s the question producers are asking tonight, March 6th, following the opening of “All the Way”, a historical drama by Robert Schenkkan about the difficult presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Brya …Read more

A hostage, a wife, a reporter and a state department representative are at odds: how to best handle this tense situation? In Lee Blessing’s “Two Rooms”, now at the Seeing Place Theater, you’ll be kept wondering about whose motives are suspect and who …Read more

The Frigid New York Fringe Festival, now in its 8th year, keeps getting better and better.  With ticket prices that won’t break your pocket, Frigid is notable for being the only festival of its kind on the East Coast where 100% of all box office proc …Read more

The Oscars might not be bigger than the Tony’s to Theater Lovers but twas a good night for Broadway especially after John Travolta butchered veteran Tony Winner and “Frozen” star Idina Menzel’s name. In retrospect it might have been just the boost ne …Read more

Turn To Flesh Productions certainly chose a relevant story to present for Valentine’s weekend of 2014: the myth of Cupid and Psyche. “Cupid and Psyche”, written and directed by Emily C. A. Snyder, is their very first play — a comedy with the audacit …Read more

Liliana Ashman gives the impression of being a charming person and passionate theater maker. In her one woman show “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gardaí” she refers to herself as a girl who once had “fire in her eyes.” In the piece, an …Read more

He was Malcolm (in the Middle)’s dad and then a high school teacher gone very wrong. What else is left for Bryan Cranston but to play the president of the United States. The 36th president, to be exact: Lyndon Johnson, who came into office with the d …Read more

It’s rare that an original cast will reunite after their closing night — and even rarer for a cast to come together after fifty years.  It was therefore an extra special treat to talk with the original cast of “West Side Story”, who joined the origi …Read more

While Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, and Alexandra Socha are great actors, Jeanine Tesori’s score is the real star of “Fun Home”, the off-Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir that premiered at The Public in September. The story, ab …Read more

A one-person show is perhaps the best setup for a play centered on a 30-something-year-old divorced woman who lives in New York City and who’s unsure of herself. In “A date for the evening”, playwright and performer Celestial Zenith invites her audie …Read more