Brendan Gall’s Wide Awake Hearts (at 59E59 Theaters—directed by Stefan Dzeparoski for Birdland Theatre) is one of those plays in which life imitates art, hell is other people, and you always kill the thing you love. It’s the sort of play where the cl …Read more

The ingenuity of Austin McCormick — the choreographer, Artistic Director and founder of Company XIV — shines in Company XIV’s production of Snow White. He’s taken on Cinderella, The Nutcracker and, now, this darkly stylized burlesque ballet version …Read more

Chris Hedges’ Death of the Liberal Class, published in 2010, was a rousing, if slightly bleak essay about the perils of capitalism, and how it was a beast allowed to run amok by both Republicans and Democrats, American society according to Hedges was …Read more

The first annual Exponential Fest, created as Brooklyn’s reaction to the host of mid-winter theater fests in the city, pulls no punches. In Biter (Every Time I Turn Around), remounted for the Festival after last year’s run, theater collective Title:P …Read more

To a liberal New Yorker, the Tea Party is all that is wrong with America. But what if the opposite were also true? Wouldn’t a Tea Partier say the exact same thing of liberals? In Rich Orloff’s documentary-style play, Chatting with the Tea Party, the …Read more

In an era when children’s entertainment is often a flamboyant bonanza constantly bombarding the senses, The Very Hungry Caterpillar show feels refreshingly personal and unassuming. The set, costumes, and script are modest, but colorful, and the produ …Read more

Escuela, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón and presented at Philadelphia’s FringeArts, asks us to think long and hard about what we need to learn in order to impact the world around us.  It is at once a guide to becoming a revolutionary in a …Read more

Infrequent yet ominous piano music penetrates a summer retreat, crammed with the accouterments of artistic craft and disharmony. Adolph (Josh Tyson), an artist belittled by a desperate love for his writer wife Tekla (Elise Stone) and the tangled webs …Read more

In a locker/meeting/breakfast/lunch/living room of a car manufacturer in Detroit, signs cover the walls: “No Gambling”; “No Smoking”; “No Playing Music”. A strict “stop and search policy” is enforced upon the workers passing through the room each day …Read more

A Dream of Red Pavilions is one of the four the most famous works of traditional Chinese literature, the other three being Journey to the West, The Tales of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin (All Men are Brothers), but little known outside of Asia. …Read more