The decade characterized by its counter culture, rock and roll hedonism and civil rights movement would take a good few years from its onset to fully take shape. The early sixties, in many ways a covetous extension of the previous decade, were shaped …Read more

A set-piece in miniature, a school boarding house, emanates little glimmers of warmth as the window lights switch on one by one. The bare trees of Santo Loquasto’s set design suggest a cool, lonesome atmosphere by contrast. In Prodigal Son, presented …Read more

Annie Wilson’s Lovertits, presented by Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series, is not for the prudish.  Under Wilson’s direction, performer/creators Christina Gesualdi, Jenna Horton, and Ilse Zoerb walk a thrilling line between pedestrianism and th …Read more

American Lyric Theater presented daring, new work by composers and librettists on Sunday, February 7 at National Sawdust in Williamsburg. Artistic Director Lawrence Edelson has done something visionary with ALT alumni teams, putting together a progra …Read more

What is the real essence of Sophocles’ Theban plays and why do we still perform it today? Asa Horvitz’s Theban Plays, neither a retelling nor an adaptation of the original trilogy, nevertheless extracts from each story its core philosophical question …Read more

As Edmond Rostand’s famously big-nosed romantic who is capable of dispatching a hundred sword-wielding opponents, yet can’t quite work up the nerve to tell a beautiful girl he loves her, actor Gabriel Barre exudes a sort of world-weariness that seems …Read more

#therevolution, directed by Seth Rozin and presented by InterAct Theatre Company at their new home at The Drake, is bubbling with ideas.  Like all good satire, it is not so hard to imagine a world in which the events that initiate revolution in the p …Read more

In the Amoralists’ Utility, written by Emily Schwend and directed by Jay Stull at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, life is neither cruel nor glamorous. Days are merely an accumulation of hours that must be waded through so we can wake up and do i …Read more

Two queens, two religions, one throne, and one man equals constant conflict, and the Metropolitan Opera’s spellbinding production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda does not disappoint!  From the opening roll of the timpani to the frenzied violins …Read more

Being in a production of A Chorus Line is almost a rite of passage for any actor trying to make it into musical theatre. An irony really, for the show is about nothing if not last chances; it’s a musical about people who have one last chance of being …Read more