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

“Antony and Cleopatra” is a story of love in the time of war. As much of the world descends into conflict, it seems appropriate that this story should come to the New York stage: the Public has done so with great bravura and solid theatricality. Tare …Read more

The hit romantic comedy “Handle with Care” may make you believe in the power of destiny.  Starring Charlotte Cohn and Broadway legend Carol Lawrence (the original Maria of “West Side Story”), it tells the story of a young Israeli woman who travels wi …Read more

Megan O’Leary’s one-act play “Charlotte the Destroyer” chronicles the downward spiral of a once-successful children’s book author, whose vain efforts to transition to adult novels lead to depression and alcoholism. Charlotte, the heroine of her popul …Read more

“Bronx Bombers” closes this weekend, and you won’t want to miss it in its home stretch. The show assembles a cast portraying some of New York’s finest athletes — and we went behind the scenes with Casting Director Stephanie Klapper to find out how s …Read more

In the story of “Macbeth”, the King is out in battle when he receives the news: “The Queen, my lord, is dead.” Anais Koivisto, the director of “Something Wicked”, picks us up from the edge of the seats where Shakespeare leaves us, and provides insigh …Read more