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

Headlines recently trumpeted that 2015 has been the world’s hottest summer on record, so it is a little uncanny to hear characters in Harold Chapin’s 1911-12 comedy, The New Morality (at the Mint Theater Company), also speaking about record-breaking …Read more

Woodshed Collective’s newest immersive theatre piece, Empire Travel Agency, is a bizarre and exhilarating quest through the streets of Lower Manhattan. This theatrical experience takes four people at a time on a “Hidden City Excursion” to various sit …Read more

It is rare in theater these days that you feel enthralled by the pull of auteur. Though Theatre for a New Audience’s presentation of New York City Players’ Isolde may at first feel like a tough fit, somehow awkward or strained, take comfort in the kn …Read more

On paper, Pondling is a very accessible piece of theater. The one-woman show – written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, directed by Paul Meade, and being presented at 59E59 Theaters as a part of Origin’s 1st Irish Festival 2015 – is about Mad …Read more

“I wasn’t cut out for the undertaking business,” says singing undertaker Mossey Burke, who, having reluctantly inherited his father’s line of work, yearns for a better suited career in the hotel or catering industry. Burke regales us with tales of a …Read more

Never Odd or Even, a play from title:point productions at the Brick Theater, questions and challenges what madness is and what our minds can make sense of. Five performers, who each portray a number of undefined characters, create a world where every …Read more

The topic of suicide has never received such a puzzling treatment as in the intricate mystery thriller The Black Book. This head scratcher of a play may be convoluted at times, but it is utterly mesmerizing. At first I may have been annoyed at all th …Read more

The essence of Laugh It Up, Stare It Down is summed up in its opening scene when Joe (Jayce Bartok) and Cleo (Katya Campbell) meet outside her apartment. After awkward flirtation, they end up together, and a mere few scenes later they are married. Bu …Read more

At Lazarus House in County Mayo, the path of Dublin ex-con Larry (Donal O’Kelly), on one last job to steal a statue of the Virgin Mary, crosses with Sister Martha (Sorcha Fox), a Scottish nun. A roll of film, brought with her from Nigeria on a clande …Read more