Upon entering Lower Manhattan’s 4th Street Theatre, the lobby walls catch the eye with stark play/prison related images. Photographic stills set the tone for the looming performance of Key Change, but it is the the written comments from incarcerated …Read more

With music by Du Yun and libretto by Royce Vavrek, Angel’s Bone, at the 2016 Prototype Festival, is a wailing 80-minute opera where feathers fly and violins screech to high heaven. We see the world of Angel’s Bone through the eyes of Mrs. X.E., skill …Read more

The stage opens on a set of stairs leading to a glittering, ladies-only jazz band. They launch into a mash-up of a few jazz standards, including “It Don’t Mean a Thing” and “Luck Be a Lady”. The performance legend Maurice Hines appears onstage as tho …Read more

The world premiere of Mac Wellman’s new play, The Offending Gesture, opened January 9 at the Connelly Theater. Wellman is well-known – and very well-regarded – as the head of the Playwriting MFA program at Brooklyn College (which has produced myriad …Read more

On Saturday, January 9th a group of approximately 75 audience members filled the open wings of the Playhouse Theater at Abrons Arts Center to view the work of Keith Hennessy, a San Francisco-based dance and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of …Read more

Upon the rupture in his relationship with Paul Verlaine, after Verlaine shot him, the adolescent poet prodigy Arthur Rimbaud declared in his prose poem “Morning of Drunkeness,” “Behold the time of the assassins!” Recalling this poem while taking in t …Read more

Sanctuary presents an 80-minute opportunity to share dismay at what often seems like the constant state of violence and war we live in. The one-woman play, written and performed by Susanne Sulby and directed by Stephen Stahl, lends a voice to the fee …Read more

Three ordinary people, a husband, a wife and a woman, meet at a shabby hotel by the sea with only a 4th floor, only one room on that floor and only one employee, a porter.  But the action of The Last Hotel, a dark and devastating new opera by compose …Read more

Part of living in New York City includes complaining about living in New York City, especially when it comes to the fact that it’s quite difficult to find tranquility in “the city that never sleeps”. The bustle and hustle of the subway, tourists that …Read more

A family’s struggle to survive in post-apocalyptic America is bleak subject matter, but the New York City premiere of Dog Days, a groundbreaking chamber opera with intrusive elements of heavy metal music, manages to give us a small ember of hope amid …Read more