Australian funny man Tim Motley’s many talents include working an audience, delivering lightning-fast one-liners in a Humphrey Bogart a la Casablanca sort of way and performing tongue-in-cheek, comically rubbish magic tricks. From the moment he steps …Read more

Theaterlab’s Wildwood Flowers, created and choreographed by Reut Shemesh, is a gripping, edgy, and evocative movement piece. This piece, which premiered in Cologne earlier this year, has now been reimagined by Shemesh with New York performers, trying …Read more

Who said becoming a Chinese stand-up comedian was easy?  Stand-up may be a relatively new thing in China, but Des Bishop is propping up the door for others to put a foot in, even if he does have to apply to the censor for permission before every show …Read more

Fate is a funny thing, causing people — strangers, even — to be drawn mysteriously towards one another emotionally and physically.  It is this energy that united two young circus academy students, Magnus Bjøru and Manu Tiger. As they tell it, they …Read more

Those familiar with the Thomas Bradshaw’s writing have come to expect the controversial. His plays – which often deal with the graphic reality of subjects like murder, pedophilia, incest and rape onstage – are not for the easily triggered. But Fulfil …Read more

Many of us had a boogeyman in our childhood, a story of a supernatural being who would steal us away unless we obeyed our mothers. As we grew older we stopped believing in such preposterous cautionary tales, but Pipeline Theatre Company’s The Gray Ma …Read more

Bixby Elliot’s original play Sommerfugl tackles a very important subject at a very timely point in its public discussion. Within the last few years, the topic of gender identity has reached a broader audience, and InViolet Theater’s production succes …Read more

There’s a variety of tricks to writing most archetypal celebrity ‘autobiographies’. First, get in a ghost writer who can either make sense and good grammar out of prerecorded drivel posing as authentic memories, or can sum up the subject matter by pu …Read more

Anne Washburn’s transadaptation of Iphigenia In Aulis, now onstage at the Classic Stage Company’s inaugural Greek Festival, is a mesmerizing, groundbreaking update on Euripides’ final tragedy, which premiered in Athens in 405 BC. Directed by Rachel C …Read more

There are many reasons to check out Hamlet in Bed at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, not the least of which is its excellent title. Add to that the star power of Emmy Award-nominated Annette O’Toole and Drama Desk nominee Michael Laurence (who a …Read more