Playwright Sam Shepard and director Robert Woodruff were on a roll together in the late 1970s and early 1980s, teaming up for a series of well-received dramas centered on that favorite of themes: The American Family. Curse of the Starving Class (1978 …Read more

In The Christians, playwright Lucas Hnath’s self proclaimed “big-little play about faith in America,” now onstage at Playwrights Horizons, opposing theological and ideological structures that shape our society are given an achingly human face. Theate …Read more

In the 90 minutes of Ken Jaworowski’s Believers, the playwright packs a whole lifetime, opening up the past and present of what could be any couple living right here, right now. In this Workshop Theater production, directed by Alex Dmitriev, two sets …Read more

In its seventh annual celebration of horror master H.P. Lovecraft, RadioTheatre puts on another series of staged readings in the style of ’40s radio dramas. As part of New York’s FRIGID Festival, for two weekends RadioTheatre will be honoring the lat …Read more

The Thespis Theater Festival is held in New York City each summer. This year’s incarnation – which was held at the Hudson Guild Theater – contained over sixty productions. Of those, only six were chosen as finalists. They were each given encore prese …Read more

Radical Evolution’s The Golden Drum Year, directed by Simón Adinia Hanukai, will appeal to everyone who has ever loved New York but suspected the city didn’t love them back. The play opens on the eve of 2011. Eugene (Allan K. Washington) has just mov …Read more

“I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.” Giuseppe Verdi The Metropolitan Opera has debuted its new production of Verdi’s masterpiece Otello, based upon the great tragedy by William …Read more

If you happen to be strolling in Brooklyn down McKibbin Street and hear an aggressively passionate sound arising from a graffitied crate junkyard… step inside, you won’t soon regret it. Contained within a petite, abandoned shipping crate are the fi …Read more

Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival is the only festival outside of Ireland that is dedicated solely to Irish playwrights.  In The Quare Land, currently playing at Union Square’s DR2 Theatre, playwright John McManus and director Ciarán O’Reilly (co-f …Read more

In The Daisy Theatre, Ronnie Burkett reinvents the one-man show — with the help of about 40 marionettes. This production of the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at the Baryshnikov Arts Center is a variety show where all of the usual larger-than …Read more