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

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