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

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