Those looking for something raw, unique, and devastating in a theater experience will find it in Trash Cuisine. The production from the Belarus Free Theatre is an unnerving depiction of the torture and execution of political prisoners, past and prese …Read more
It seems that the more we age and learn about the world, the less we really know about those who shaped ours growing up. What we once believed to be absolute truths, slowly reveal themselves to be nothing but images we composed to our convenience; bu …Read more
The effect of witnessing Yael Farber’s Nirbhaya unfold can only be marginally described or captured. I am not yet critic enough to dare to criticize it, to look at it with the cutting lens of a careful eye. The title, meaning ‘fearless,’ is also the …Read more
Blessed Unrest and Teatri ODA of Kosova bring to the stage Doruntine, a mythical tale that traverses contemporary situations and evokes emotions that are often complicated and unresolved. The bilingual production doesn’t make any concessions for non- …Read more
When your Broadway musical is based on not one, but two, quite beloved properties, it seems like there would be little to do in order to recreate the magic of the previous incarnations, and that is precisely what the creators behind Finding Neverland …Read more
While there is nothing remotely original about the sitcom-like It Shoulda Been You, there’s also something perversely reactionary about it. It’s a musical about a wedding that singles out everything that could possibly go wrong during a ceremony, not …Read more
It makes sense that on many occasions during the length of Doctor Zhivago, the eponymous hero (played by Tam Mutu) is referred to as “Y.A.”, short for Yurii Andreyevich, and also a perfect, if unintentional, embodiment of the show’s adolescent intens …Read more
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop quite literally in Robert Askins’ Hand to God, an irreverent hybrid of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Avenue Q and The Beaver in which a demonic sock puppet called Tyrone takes over his creator Jason (Steven Boyer) leadin …Read more
John Ford’s drama ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore has been making audiences uncomfortable since its premiere in the 1630s. Its current incarnation, produced by the Red Bull Theatre Company and playing at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street, manages to elicit sig …Read more
Identity, self vs. state, radicalism, liberalism: there are just some of the themes at play in True Believer, a solo play developed at Theaterlab written by Asa Merritt and performed by Kersti Bryan. These themes collide in ways that are in equal par …Read more
