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

 People often wonder how come there always seems to be a revival of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, playing somewhere, and the answer might as well be contained in Aaron Posner’s Stupid F**king Bird, a “sorta” adaptation of the famous play that turns it …Read more

Head of Passes opens in a very familiar manner, as we see people in the home of Shelah (Phylicia Rashad) bustling in anticipation of a celebration set to take place that night. Shelah’s children have decided to throw her the big birthday bash she has …Read more

Andrew Schneider, inventor of the Solar Bikini (capable of charging your iPod), and wireless, programmable, sound effect gloves, walks a high tech tightrope between grand design and accessible theater. The test tube child of Einstein and Houdini, Sch …Read more

Wolf in the River – Adam Rapp’s new play, being performed by The Bats at The Flea – is an impressionistic look at the destitute and depraved. It is something like a True Detective nightmare imagined by a young Tracy Letts, but it is neither exploitat …Read more

From Cupid’s love-tipped arrows to Shakespeare’s Puck administering the juice of a magic flower upon a quartet of young lovers in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, to the tragic tale of Tristan and Iseult, a love potion is a powerful way to propel a plot fo …Read more