Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – The Fear of 13: Surviving Death Row. Nicholas Yarris was convic …Read more

From Off-Broadway to the West End to Broadway, the ship Titanique has traveled a long way. The musical parody of James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic has delighted its audiences so much that it has made the rare transfer to the St. James Theatre. This …Read more

“Cats:The Jellicle Ball” at the Broadhurst Theatre is not your mother’s “Cats,” the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. In the original musical, the poems, set to Webber’s memorable music, were …Read more

In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing about the play except for its leads, veterans of FX’s popular …Read more

Sometimes an actor gives such a commanding performance that he will always be that character. So it was with John Lithgow portraying Roald Dahl in the Olivier award- winning play Giant, recently transplanted to Broadway. Lithgow portrays children’s a …Read more

The play Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) by Anna Ziegler is not the play you and I read in high school. Although the major characters are the same, the play, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, feels modern because of a major change to the storyline …Read more

How can you trust a man who lies about doing yoga? In the intimate one-man-show Touch, directed by Jonathan Silverstein and written by playwright Kenny Finkle, the actor Anthony Rapp delivers the life story of an unreliable narrator. Anthony Rapp, al …Read more

Why do couples stay together? Mutual comfort? Desire? Self-destructive neurotic drives? Is it because nobody else knows how to make that Cajun chicken alfredo just the way you like it? Or is it, as a character in ENTANGLED: 12 Scenes in a Circle K of …Read more

In my role as a critic, I see a lot of shows. While I enjoy many of them, I rarely leave planning to buy tickets for my family. However, by the end of Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel Radcliffe (yes-the Harry Potter guy), I wanted to stop at the …Read more

Let’s say you have all the money in the world. You’ve ruthlessly built a global corporate tech empire from nothing; it’s taken you your whole life. Legions of employees do the hokey-pokey when you snap your fingers. Presidents are at your beck and ca …Read more