There is no easy or pretty way to approach the subject of pedophilia, which playwright Paula Vogel explores in “How I Learned to Drive”. Tongue in Cheek Theater’s well-crafted production of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play is currently at the Bridg …Read more
“Mexican Hayride” is a Cole Porter musical that hasn’t been seen in New York since 1944, when it ran for a year with great success. It featured whopping cast of 99 performers and was later made into a feature film starring Abbott and Costello (though …Read more
You’ve read the book, you’ve seen the movie, now should you go see the play? Critics weighed in on the new Broadway drama, “A Time to Kill”, which opened last night (Sunday, Oct. 20), at the Golden Theater. The tale of a Southern black man’s legal de …Read more
Off-Broadway’s Westside Theater may have lost one Jewish-themed play when “Old Jews Telling Jokes” closed in September, but they’re gaining another October 29, when Mark St. Germain’s “Becoming Dr. Ruth” moves in. Debra Jo Rupp, best known for playin …Read more
The Flying Carpet Theatre’s new play, “The Medicine Showdown”, is a bright sunrise of great country entertainment, bona fide public health advice, and marvelous, metafictive dramatics. Playwrights Adam Koplan and Topher Payne have written exuberant …Read more
What better way to show off your entertainment industry abilities than a one-man show about the entertainment industry? The Movement Theatre Company’s “Last Laugh”, written and performed by Eric Lockley and directed by Jonathan McCrory, is the perfec …Read more
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” on Broadway banishes any thoughts about your daily life and whisks you away to dream in its fairytale world from the moment the orchestra starts to tune their instruments till you’re standing on your feet givi …Read more
In the prodigious Shakespeare canon, gender-benders have always been in vogue. Gender, like the theatre, is a performance and as our notions of gender fluctuate, complicate, and ultimately loosen, it only makes sense that the stage reflects those var …Read more
Fred Newman’s “Stealin’ Home” is a surrealistic portrayal of the story behind the hero Jackie Robinson, as told through intimate conversation and polymorphic perspective. It’s a wonderful performance full of gusto, historical-political flare, flashba …Read more
Pye, Pye, Pyewacket! That’s what the kids used to say — at least in the 1960s and ’70s. Probably in part because it’s kinda fun to say (try it out loud for yourself), but also because it’s a phrase attached to one of the few movies at the time that …Read more
