On the second floor of a nondescript building in midtown Manhattan, metal folding chairs lined the walls of a drab classroom-like room. The audience was sparse and could have been waiting for a high school play or amateur improv show to begin. In fac …Read more
At the top of this show, a famous quote is echoed. “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is a fair assessment. However, the talking in The Count Meets the Duke: The Andersons Play Basie and Ellington only augments this homa …Read more
The excellent Christian Thom plays the title role of Alfo Idello in Vincent Amelio’s romantic comedy How Alfo Learned to Love (at 59E59 Theaters, directed by Daisy Walker). But the real star of this production may be its casting director, Judy Bowman …Read more
Buster Poindexter quietly stepped onto the stage. Butler, Bernstein, & The Hot 9, the musical collaboration featured for the 3rd annual holiday variety show at Town Hall, was already in full swing. Poindexter, the evening’s host, lingered in the …Read more
In Marjorie Prime, a Pulitzer Prize finalist written by Jordan Harrison, pixelated holographic robots called “Primes” help humans navigate and renew their memories, some sweet, some grief-laden. Constructed sparely, with deep rivers of emotion under …Read more
On Saturday, December 12th at the Japan Society, the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company proved that humor knows no bounds of time or place. Mansaku Nomura brought his company to New York City for a three night exhibition of Kyogen, one of the four classic …Read more
When Pier Paolo Pasolini died, he left behind a legacy of artistic provocation unlike anything else seen in the twentieth century. His most famous films had been incendiary reinterpretations of classic novels and stories (his Medea even had Maria Cal …Read more
In walking into a night of Christmas one-acts, one might expect a familiar, uplifting experience. Seasonal stories about redemption, hope and triumph of spirit. But if the Peccadillo Theater Company’s presentation of A Wilder Christmas, directed by D …Read more
The Pillowman, currently being performed by The Seeing Place at the Clarion Theatre, opens with the play’s protagonist, Katurian (Brandon Walker), knowing very little of the circumstances of the current situation unfolding. Why has Katurian been tak …Read more
In a town in New Jersey, four teens made a suicide pact. Three were found dead in a garage. But one made it out alive. She gets tracked down by a playwright and her story becomes the focus of a play. And The Reenactors, currently making its world pre …Read more
