One of the most talked about international theatre pieces of the decade is finally making its New York debut at the Under the Radar festival. In Germinal (January 6-9), Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort use various elements to build the world from s …Read more

Guillermo Calderón’s Escuela (January 13-17 at the Public Theater) takes place in 1987 Chile and focuses on the efforts of a group of young activists who are training to help overthrow Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Concealing their identi …Read more

In Now I’m Fine (January 12-17), Ahamefule J. Oluo leads a band of musicians who help him tell a story about “keeping it together”. The pop-opera takes inspiration from events in Oluo’s life and features vocalist okanomodé. Oluo was kind enough to re …Read more

In one of the most in-depth interviews she’s given in what has remained, a very much private life, Maggie Smith explained to Nancy Banks-Smith of the Observer how she perceived theatre, “I’m never shy on the stage. Always shy off it it. You see, the …Read more

Marjorie Prime begins inside a house filled with modern, streamlined furniture in soft pastels, where we meet 85 year old Marjorie (Lois Smith) as she sits in an older-looking recliner. She’s talking to the handsome Walter (Noah Bean) who is asking h …Read more

One of my favorite productions this year was Manual Cinema’s ADA|AVA, a quietly stunning production filled with outstanding visuals. The shadow puppetry piece blended theatre and film to tell the story of an octogenarian grieving the loss of her sist …Read more

1. Oklahoma! Something quite extraordinary took place over the summer at Bard College, where visionary director Daniel Fish took a 70 year old musical (the very first “groundbreaking” Broadway musical in fact) and turned it not only into something of …Read more

Deep into the process of rehearsing and shaping their new musical theater piece The Good Swimmer, a First Look Presentation at the 2016 Prototype Festival, librettist Donna Di Novelli  and composer Heidi Rodewald took a few minutes of precious time t …Read more

The New York Pops delivered Christmas treats in style at their holiday concert held at Carnegie Hall. In It’s Christmas Time in the City, the orchestra was joined by Essential Voices USA, and guest artists Stephanie J. Block and Brian d’Arcy James, w …Read more

Multiple murders at the Players Club! At first glance, a headline that could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a historic social club dogged in recent years by financial controversy. But not so! This macabre message is, in actuality, a ban …Read more