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

“…They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and its themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch.” Rod Serling, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A new internet game is disrupting the order (or rather, the appearance of order) of an …Read more

When Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus came out in 1993 and spent 121 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, it went from a self-help book for the relationship-challenged to an accepted pop psychology phenomenon. Though many of the claims …Read more

The broad, vast stage of the Ellen Stewart Theatre cast in blue light, with huge fabric tubes standing upright like stalks of bamboo, a massive disembodied hand hovering mid-air over the musicians in the upstage corner. This was the striking image th …Read more

Walking through the East Village, I found myself thinking about my bygone college days gallivanting down 4th Street for one-woman shows, drinking in dive bars and grabbing late-night fried chicken from the now shuttered Mama’s Food Shop. My wandering …Read more

Upon the death in 1923 of their rabbi father who was a dwarf, seven of the ten children of Shimson Eizik Ovitz formed a theatrical ensemble known as the Lilliput Troupe. Being Romanian, these seven children of Ovitz, also dwarves, toured across Roman …Read more

Watching Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy, directed by Michael Wilson and presented by the Signature Theatre as part of a celebration of the playwright’s centennial, I wondered if it was the play’s prescience – and the ease at which one unavoidably …Read more

There couldn’t have been a better setting for Michael John LaChiusa’s First Daughter Suite than the Public, except, maybe, the White House. The Anspacher Theater, with its white columns darting up from a house that curls around the playing space, pro …Read more

After 36 years of performances throughout the U.S. and around the world, the hit comedy whodunit Shear Madness has finally found its way to New York. The show, created by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan (who also directs), began its long life as a su …Read more

Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead is not a play made easily digestible. Much like the play upon which it’s based, it’s incredibly wordy, often esoteric, and full of heady philosophical themes of mortality. In this production of the …Read more