Upon entering the small theater space in the Access Theatre Gallery for the Everyday Inferno Theatre Company’s original production Punk as Fuck, the audience is greeted by leather- and denim-clad misfits in the middle of an apparent jam session. In b …Read more
Everyday Inferno Theatre Crompany is running a series in rep titled Punks and Provocateurs in which it presents two plays that regard misfits and social outcasts. One show is an original piece called Punk as Fuck regarding a punk rock band trying to …Read more
The notion of dramatizing the story of a white kid from the suburbs turned failed NYU film student, living in a huge Manhattan apartment on his father’s dime hits me at gut level as the kind of eye rolling, self-aggrandizing “hipster” punchline that …Read more
If free choice is the most important tool we have at our disposal, how much can we really mess up our lives? In Christopher B Latro’s play Devoted Dreams, the central character, Alexander (Brandon Alan Smith), leads a life that spirals out of control …Read more
As a theatregoer, you know when you are in good hands and when you are not. Within minutes of any live performance, a reading-of-the-minds takes place, from spectator to performer. If the player is incompetent, we know it right away-we are in for a b …Read more
The not-for-profit Brick Theater in Williamsburg (once an auto-body shop in its multiform past) provides a snug and innovative performance space. At the helm this week are the Tugboat Collective, a Brooklyn-based experimental theater company of mult …Read more
A call to nature is being heard in Greenwich Village this spring, as theatre company Rady&Bloom Collective Playmaking debut their world premiere of The Upper Room at New Ohio Theater. Marking the end of the company’s two-year Archive Residency wi …Read more
Ensemble Studio Theatre is heading into June with Series B of its 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays. The four, short works showing here through June 21 (and running concurrently through June 6th with the excellent Series A) do their strongest work in qu …Read more
The comic backstager has a long, bright history. (Think of Bottom and the rest of Shakespeare’s hapless mechanicals rehearsing Pyramus and Thisbe.) And—believe it—the genre is not going away anytime soon. (Consider Terrence McNally’s collection of ma …Read more
Can you ever really escape your past? This is the question posed by For the Last Time, a new jazz musical now playing at the Clurman Theatre. With music and lyrics by Nancy Harrow and direction by Will Pomerantz (who each additionally serve as co-lib …Read more
