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

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