Is a love for the Beatles strong enough to keep a troubled family together? Playwright Nancy Manocherian presents audiences with the ultimate family drama in Hey Jude, a play in which the painful past is dredged up during what is supposed to be one o …Read more

Travel is one of the few things in this world we can say has existed since the beginning of the human race. Traveling Papers, conceived by Barbara Bosch and Martin Tackel, and produced by Laurel Valley Productions, demonstrates this well as it traces …Read more

A person without language is a person without a soul.  When memory is consigned to oblivion, it can put up a fight in mysterious ways.  In My Father’s Words, a play written by Justin Young and directed by Philip Howard, tells the story of Don (Angus …Read more

The spilled beer and strewn popcorn on the floors of the Tank might not lead audiences coming to see Rule of 7×7 to expect a sophisticated production. The show I attended at 9:30 pm on a Monday night felt like the pre-game to an after party. However, …Read more

It’s a testament to Rory Kulz’ performance in The Old Masters, a play by Sam Marks running at the Flea Theater, that the character he plays comes across as someone worthy of the audience’s care and concern. Ben, the central, unlikable character in a …Read more

Feared and revered by high school students and English majors, William Faulkner is easily one of the most brilliant — and one of the most challenging — Titans of American literature. It’s no surprise then, to find out that he was on the radar of El …Read more

R/evolution, a new musical directed by Richard St George now playing at the Robert Moss Theater, is set 150 years in the future, when corporations rule instead of governments, and human emotions are regulated through “Psychothrobics”, a “hormonal con …Read more

Were the characters in Sheldon Bull’s Mallorca (directed by Donald Brenner for Abingdon Theatre Company) to move to network television, their show could easily be dubbed The Golden Guys. It would, of course, be outfitted with a laugh track and a them …Read more

Those up for for Shakespeare al fresco without the line might look West for Hudson Warehouse’s Henry IV Part I now playing by The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park. The jaunty, at times hyper-violent and always vibrant production tran …Read more

Hold in your hand a young man of twenty-four. He is laden with a secret, obsessive love for his already-betrothed friend, Charlotte. Behold this sad, unknown poet. His name is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. His embarrassment of being so helplessly in lo …Read more