The title creatures in author Greg McGoon’s children’s book The Tanglelows feed off negativity and distress, they get absolute pleasure out of provoking self-doubt and questioning within the minds they inhabit. Theirs is a world of chaos, only meant …Read more

Those in the West may not be familiar with the work of Indian stalwart Mahesh Dattani, but for decades he has been one of the leading theatre minds in the South Asian subcontinent. As a playwright, his seminal works Dance Like a Man and Final Solutio …Read more

“Don’t worry. I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. …or am I?” Martin McDonagh’s first new play in five years, Hangmen, is currently enjoying a very successful run in London’s West End. The hallmarks of McDonagh’s work — violence, gallows humo …Read more

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell deliver the brilliant gift that is Bright Star to audiences this spring, a new musical about how we choose to tell our stories. Set in the southern part of the United States in the middle of the 20th century, Bright Sta …Read more

The 2015-2016 theatre season saw us witnessing the fifth Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. This means it is now proceeded by Show Boat, The Threepenny Opera and Porgy & Bess as the musicals most revived on Broadway. There have been many mo …Read more

Lyricist Sheldon Harnick is a bona fide Broadway legend, having created over a dozen musicals, many of which (particularly his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock) became part of the theatrical canon. He is also one of the rare writers who was aw …Read more

The central character in Olivier Letellier’s Oh Boy!, a young man by the name of Barthélémy, finds himself suddenly becoming father figure to three recently orphaned children, who will force him to leave behind his frivolous ways and dare him to grow …Read more

There is usually a moment in all of Anna Ziegler’s plays where you, as an audience member, get the sense that the feelings onstage (or on the page if you’re reading them) had never been felt before. Whether it’s the teenagers in Life Science coming t …Read more

Entering Ars Nova for a performance of The Wildness: Sky-Pony’s Rock Fairy Tale, has all the makings of an underground rock show, rather than a traditional piece of musical theatre. Audience members are handed colored pieces of fabric that will then …Read more

Playwright and director Edward Einhorn has been fashioning his own brand of absurdism and intellectual inquiry in the New York theater for more than twenty years. His latest play, City of Glass, is a stage adaptation of Paul Auster’s celebrated 1985 …Read more