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

For someone whose work is often thought of as distant, cold and severe, it’s almost surprising to realize how interested Ingmar Bergman was in Christmas. In his masterful Fanny and Alexander, it’s the magic of the season that allows the title charact …Read more

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