With the glow of a flashlight and a stage set to look like a cabin alternate for Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead, Tiny Little Band’s newest production, Ghost Stories, is a sensory journey directed by Stefanie Abel Horowitz that touches on el …Read more
Fatalism, consumerism and a heady love triangle lead to a deliciously wicked conclusion in director Lucia Cox’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ One Hand Clapping. The 1961 novel, originally published in the UK under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, is a fri …Read more
Coffee and Biscuit is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House set in 1950’s suburban America with puppets. At first, the idea seems outlandish and twee. A classic play that revolutionized the theatre and was a major step forward for feminism d …Read more
The fourth night of the IN SCENA! Italian Theater Festival NY was presented at the beautiful and intimate Casa Italiana in Greenwich Village. There in the downstairs auditorium, I experienced Cingomma, written and performed by the wildly talented Jes …Read more
Godlight Theatre Company’s Cool Hand Luke begins how it ends. In the Brechtian-mode, it doesn’t pull any punches as to where Luke Jackson, convict, plumber and liberator, will end. A boot hill grave is written in this man’s stars and so, when the cho …Read more
Once, when I tried to argue that reality and game show TV is at an all time, depraved high, my father laughingly countered with Queen for a Day, a show that ran in the 1950s and ’60s when he was a kid, featuring female contestants who competed with o …Read more
Arriving in New York in the very season when Bruce Jenner’s personal revelations have put questions about gender in the headlines, Viola di Mare is certainly timely. The monodrama, written and acted by Isabella Carloni, underscores the ways in which …Read more
Our first love may fade over the years, but it never truly goes away. In his original play the lighthouse invites the storm, titled after Malcolm Lowry’s first collection of poetry, Josh Drimmer explores what happens when one willingly revisits those …Read more
Having been so impressed with The Gallery Players’ previous production, the lighthearted and ensemble-focused The Baker’s Wife, I was somewhat taken aback by the company’s darker and disjointed production of Evita. Not that the two shows should be co …Read more
Having just had the pleasure of seeing Fiasco Theatre’s brilliant production of Into the Woods with Roundabout Theatre Company, I was very much looking forward to their take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Theatre for a New Audience at the Polons …Read more