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

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