Buster Poindexter quietly stepped onto the stage. Butler, Bernstein, & The Hot 9, the musical collaboration featured for the 3rd annual holiday variety show at Town Hall, was already in full swing. Poindexter, the evening’s host, lingered in the …Read more
In Marjorie Prime, a Pulitzer Prize finalist written by Jordan Harrison, pixelated holographic robots called “Primes” help humans navigate and renew their memories, some sweet, some grief-laden. Constructed sparely, with deep rivers of emotion under …Read more
On Saturday, December 12th at the Japan Society, the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company proved that humor knows no bounds of time or place. Mansaku Nomura brought his company to New York City for a three night exhibition of Kyogen, one of the four classic …Read more
When Pier Paolo Pasolini died, he left behind a legacy of artistic provocation unlike anything else seen in the twentieth century. His most famous films had been incendiary reinterpretations of classic novels and stories (his Medea even had Maria Cal …Read more
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
