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
Die Fledermaus brings Johann Strauss, Jr.’s valentine to the turn of the century to The Metropolitan Opera. Die Fledermaus originally premiered in Vienna in 1874, and had its Met premiere in German in 1905. This year’s Jeremy Sams production is in En …Read more
Oxygen and Hydrogen, two elements that need to come together so life can flow like water. For the characters Deborah and Jake in Ground UP Productions’ H2O by Jane Martin, such a bond is not so simple. Jake and Deborah are actors. He is an establishe …Read more
For a place that thrives on creating magic, it’s almost strange that Broadway doesn’t have a perennial fixture of this type, a Vegas-style spectacle perhaps complete with feather-covered showgirls, cheesy jokes and dashing tricksters. Drama purists w …Read more
Fancy Nancy is celebrating Christmas! Vital Theatre Company’s Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas, playing through December 27 at The Theater at St. Jean, is a good choice for holiday family entertainment. Nancy is extremely excited for Christmas t …Read more
There’s a lot that goes wrong in Promising, a new play by Michelle Elliott presented by InProximity Theatre at the Beckett Theatre: a City Council member is accused of sexual assault, a twenty-year-old who believes that the world is ending quits scho …Read more
Naomi Wallace’s Night Is A Room, now onstage at the Signature Theater, begins with two women talking about balloons, and ends with the same two women discussing feet. In the two hours that pass between this careful mundanity, both of their lives chan …Read more
Rob (Patrick Breen) and Alan (John Benjamin Hickey) “grew up gay” during a time when they had little or no rights, when their close friends were succumbing to AIDS, and when the idea of two men getting married was as fantastical as a unicorn. Fast fo …Read more
For someone whose work is often thought of as distant, cold and severe, it’s almost surprising to realize how interested Ingmar Bergman was in Christmas. In his masterful Fanny and Alexander, it’s the magic of the season that allows the title charact …Read more
Nick Jones’ Important Hats of the Twentieth Century has so many subplots, characters and parallel timelines going on at once, that to try summing them up for a synopsis would make anyone’s head spin. However heads would spin while wearing the delight …Read more