Known as the “Elephant Man,” Joseph Merrick (whom the Gallery Players’ version of the play The Elephant Man together with the David Lynch film call John Merrick), was a severely deformed man and a Victorian-era curiosity, first as a traveling freak s …Read more

A rose of a show is up at The Tank, Wood Calls Out To Wood, written by Corinne Donly and directed by Sarah Hughes. A work of such generous inquiry and soft choices is a blessing to patient spirits. The complicated profundity of it will wash over you …Read more

Presented by the Keen Company and set in a small map store on the oldest street in an American city, Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet is an intimate portrait of two friends at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In this play directed by Jonathan Silvers …Read more

The Big Apple Circus has been thrilling audiences for four decades and this, their 40th anniversary season, is no exception. Under the grand but intimate big top at Lincoln Center, magic unfolds in the form of world-class performers, laughs are had b …Read more

With friends like these, who needs television? Friends! The Musical Parody is quick witted, good hearted, a tiny bit raunchy, and filled with laughs. At Central Perk, the players are well-loved and well-caffeinated. Ross, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe, Jo …Read more

After watching the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Coriolanus, it becomes clear that Sope Dirisu was born to be a star. The young actor first worked with RSC in 2012 but quickly has become a favorite, landing his first leading role as the R …Read more

The House on Poe Street, playing now at the 14th Street Y, strives to create humor out of pathos. It’s a tricky piece of work, living somewhere between black and romantic comedy. The challenge is intriguing, attempting to bring humor to a dark subjec …Read more

Tony nominee Denée Benton will join MasterVoices, Bryce Pinkham, Elizabeth Stanley and Kevin Chamberlin for a performance of George and Ira Gershwin’s Pulitzer winning musical Of Thee I Sing. We caught up with The Great Comet star to talk about her c …Read more

Please Go Gentle Into That Good Night had a brief Off-Broadway spin at The American Theater of Actors from October 25-29. Three sisters, all named Elizabeth – to be clear, that’s Izzy, Liza and Beth – are trying to honor their father’s dying wish as …Read more

Who needs eight actors when one can do it brilliantly? If the actor in question is David Greenspan, then I bet you already know the answer. David Greenspan is revelatory in his six-hour one-man show Strange Interlude, by Eugene O’Neill. An interlude …Read more