“At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.” Tim O’Brien Theatre, like all art, is at its most intense when the boundary between fiction and real life i …Read more

Amy Virginia Buchanan does not make “pretty” theatre, and she is not interested in painting a delicate, agreeable, carefully-worded picture of what it is like to live with Michael, her brother with down syndrome. The Michael Show, Amy’s one-woman pie …Read more

Happily After Ever, now playing at 59E59 Theaters, is a story about the newly married Darren (Jeffrey Bryan Adams) and Janet (Molly-Ann Nordin) who desperately desire to build the fairytale life together; but when their first child is born with both …Read more

Anne Washburn’s plays are not timid about big ideas. In Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play she wrangled with the nature of received storytelling; in The Internationalist she meditated on the foibles of human communication with the conceit of a fabricate …Read more

There is something about Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull that seems to invite frequent reinterpretations and adaptations. Perhaps it is the depth of the characters, the subtlety, or the universal themes that do not grow old. As with the endless reimagini …Read more

With its blurring of the lines between author and creation, Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author contains many themes that are well suited to be explored through the medium of puppetry. Theodora Skipitares’s play Six Characters (a …Read more

Prepare to be dazzled by some extraordinary tap dancing when you go see Cagney, the new Off Broadway musical playing at the Westside Theater.  Director Bill Castellino, choreographer Joshua Bergasse, superstar Robert Creighton (James Cagney), and a t …Read more

Prospect Theater Company’s musical Death for Five Voices tells the story of the double murder committed by Italian prince (and madrigal composer) Carlo Gesualdo in Naples in 1590. According to a program note, the poet Torquato Tasso was among the fir …Read more

The moral dilemma at the center of Marco Ramirez’s The Royale, is the kind which makes for truly timeless theatre. Jay Jackson (Khris Davis) dreams of becoming the boxing heavyweight champion of the world, and in a way he already is, having defeated …Read more

After Death of a Salesman, The Crucible is generally considered Arthur Miller’s most powerful and trenchant work. A look at religious hysteria in a Puritan colony, the 1953 play was a thinly veiled stab at Joseph McCarthy’s communist witchhunt—which …Read more