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

I recently spent some time with a friend’s three-year-old daughter, and watched the girl playing with a baby doll in a toy stroller. I noticed the tender seriousness with which she cared for her inanimate child, scolding it occasionally as she maneuv …Read more

I went into Early Morning Opera’s The Institute of Memory (TIMe), the captivating new play by Lars Jan, with two misconceptions. I’ll start with the first, which was swiftly and easily set to right and return to the second later on – I had been prono …Read more

The sound of waves crashing against a sandy shore. A beach ball rolls from the side downstage. A female voice recites lines from a poem created by an artificial intelligence. Images of palm trees, the ocean and sand fade on the back wall of the stage …Read more

On the second floor of a nondescript building in midtown Manhattan, metal folding chairs lined the walls of a drab classroom-like room. The audience was sparse and could have been waiting for a high school play or amateur improv show to begin. In fac …Read more

At the top of this show, a famous quote is echoed.  “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”  This is a fair assessment. However, the talking in The Count Meets the Duke: The Andersons Play Basie and Ellington only augments this homa …Read more

The excellent Christian Thom plays the title role of Alfo Idello in Vincent Amelio’s romantic comedy How Alfo Learned to Love (at 59E59 Theaters, directed by Daisy Walker). But the real star of this production may be its casting director, Judy Bowman …Read more