Have you ever attended a hobo funeral? Well, I have. Or at least by watching writer and composer Jara Jones’ solo folk-rock musical, King of the Hobos, I have an idea of what it might be like. Jones plays Gilly, an Alabama-born hobo who put together …Read more

La MaMa’s biennial Puppet Series has taken an acrobatic turn this week with Théâtre d’un Jour’s high-flying piece The Child Who. The Belgian theatre troupe brings together puppetry, acrobatics, and live music in this grippingly entertaining productio …Read more

Does this sound familiar? A pompous, overtly religious moralizer prepares to run for political office only to be revealed as a hypocrite. Satirization of religious and moral hypocrisy rears its head once again in Molière’s classic play Tartuffe, free …Read more

“Let’s lead the world in a whole new dance, / God knows it’s our only chance. “ – Kathy Change/Kathleen Chang Chang(e), a docudrama inspired by and based on the life of performance artist/activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang), who self-immo …Read more

Whenever you hear the word ‘bachelor’ a specific image is likely conjured, of a youngish man who seems to be stuck in his college days and isn’t quite ready to settle down. In Lesser America’s The Bachelors, currently playing at Rattlestick Playwrigh …Read more

The puppetry and multimedia collaboration Shank’s Mare, created by Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa V, walks along a web woven somewhere between dream and poetry. It is an amorphous tale with no clear direction and no center that wanders across time and s …Read more

Homecoming King, the one-man show by Hasan Minhaj now playing at Cherry Lane Theater, tells a familiar story – a young Indian boy growing up in the mostly white town of Davis, California. His story is rife with immigrant angst and culture clashes, wi …Read more

Airplane tickets. Time. Destination. Seat number. The experience of immersion in Untameable begins from the moment the audience waits in the lobby for the show. On the back of each ticket is the list of the cast and crew; it’s a fun update to traditi …Read more

New Jersey Repertory Company’s The Seedbed is a difficult play to write about. This is not necessarily because of its subject matter – which many of its Long Branch, New Jersey audience members certainly find objectionable – but, instead, because of …Read more

Jeopardy! answer: “In this 1962 American play, a squabbling married couple argue about their child, who may not even exist.” If you know anything about 20th-century theatre, you’ll likely pipe up with the matching question: “What is Who’s Afraid of V …Read more