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

Ingredients 1 Direction by Erin Mee 1 Choreography by Jonathan Matthews 1 Historic location (Cornelia Street Café) 1 Open mind 2 Glasses of wine (red or white) 7 Fearless actors 18 Scenes by Erin Mee, Jessie Bear, Colin Waitt, Jenny Lyn Bader Several …Read more

Molière’s Tartuffe is a hilarious play, and sometimes it’s best to just let a comedy play without trying to project other things onto it. In my opinion, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s production of this 17th-century classic might have been a more complet …Read more

There are many reasons to see a play, and if one of those reasons is that you adore the creative repercussions of the well-written play structure, Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, with a lovely remounted production from Tongue in Cheek Theater directed …Read more

What songs make up the soundtrack of your life?  Do the hit songs of the last century reflect the moods of the times and attitude towards women? That was the question writer Dorothy Marcic sought to answer in her book Respect, the basis for the new O …Read more

The dark consequences of politics and a failing economy take center stage in the Workshop Theater’s production of Mesquite, NV, by Leegrid Stevens, directed by Thomas Coté. Bouncy text and clear storytelling help relate this tale, at first bizarre ye …Read more

As part of their 90th Anniversary season, the St. Bart’s Players presents Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. New York’s longest running community theater group infuses new energy into this classic musical centered around the complexity of human relatio …Read more