Topher Payne’s moving comedy, Perfect Arrangement, presented by Primary Stages at the Duke on 42nd Street will appeal to a broad audience with its sharp dialogue and beautiful visuals, and that’s important, because this plucky piece of theater is a T …Read more

Between the colonial and the carnal, there is much that is shared; amongst them, brutality, oppression, lust and debatable boundaries. In the case of Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, performed in the round (set-d …Read more

What a joy to be alive in a time when we can see acting titans James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson onstage together! Their mano a mano in Donald L. Coburn’s The Gin Game is among the most electrifying in recent theatre, and yet, their work is so subtle …Read more

It hasn’t been that long since we last saw Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s Spring Awakening on Broadway, in fact it’s been less than a decade since the original production closed, so why revive it so soon after? Besides the following the musical has …Read more

Lights burn bright on a tapestry, and drums and voice wail louder than any jet fighter. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in association with Object Collection hosts a rousing call to revolution with cheap&easy OCTOBER. Object Collection has craf …Read more

One of the theaters where I — and incidentally, playwright Frank Winters — went to college was always a bit of a fixer upper. Shoddy stagecraft from the many shows in rep littered the floor. The fire curtain had huge tears through it. Finally, my s …Read more

The song “Magdalene Laundries” by Joni Mitchell tells the tale of an unmarried twenty-seven-year-old woman forced to work behind the walls of a convent as punishment for the way men look at her. The nameless woman bears witness to the stories of the …Read more

August Strindberg is a master of the enigmatic narrative. His plays often have an intangible quality to them, whether it be because of mysterious backstories or curious motivations. The Swedish writer is often characterized as a naturalist, like many …Read more

Unhealthy, written by Darren Caulley, presents the world of two guys and two girls in their mid-to-late twenties who want to connect, to find their purpose and to be allowed to make mistakes. The female characters in this piece not only drive the plo …Read more

Match-Play, a collaboration of choreographer Deborah Hay and Austin-based theater collective Rude Mechs, debuted this week at New York Live Arts. In this theatrical reimagination of Hay’s 2004 Bessie Award-winning dance, The Match, Hay, in concert wi …Read more