Before the Irish Rep’s production of The Belle of Belfast begins, projections of Belfast during the Irish Troubles are projected onto a brick wall. Most of the photos are of friends posing and citizens going about their day. Interspersed among them, …Read more

Bard envy consumes the lead character of Something Rotten! an Elizabethan playwright by the name of Nick Bottom (Brian D’Arcy James) who simply can not understand why he’s unable to write a single hit, while his rival William Shakespeare (Christian B …Read more

Comedy is a tough racket. And Adrienne Truscott is new to the game, or so she told the rowdy, expectant crowd packed into Joe’s Pub for last Saturday’s midnight performance of her one woman stand up performance, Asking For It. While comedienne may no …Read more

The most frequently heard pronoun in an autobiographical solo show is ‘I.’ The ‘I’ in 8 Stops, one of the two solo shows currently running in rep at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is Deb Margolin, and her complex tale weaves motherhood, cancer, grief, gett …Read more

There is no rest for the pious, especially when your church is empty of worshippers. When he opens up his small, provincial church one Sunday, a priest is tormented by a faulty alarm system, he can’t get his keys to work and, as if that weren’t enoug …Read more

The 1951 film version of An American in Paris ranks among the many titles that had the misfortune of winning the Oscar for Best Picture. More than sixty years after winning the most famous film award in the world, An American in Paris can’t help but …Read more

Grand Opera doesn’t get grander than Aida, Verdi’s epic love story set in the ancient city of Memphis during the “time of the Pharaohs”. And there is no grander opera house in the world than New York’s Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Anyone who …Read more

Prepare to watch in awe as the fearless members of Montreal-based company Les 7 Doigts de la Main (7 Fingers) perform gravity defying feats of acrobatics in their show, Séquence 8, at New York City Center. Directed and choreographed by married co-fou …Read more

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon at the BAM Fisher Theater is a magnificently transcendent piece of wor …Read more

Gruesome Playground Injuries, Rajiv Joseph’s sweet and dark two-hander of a play, is currently being presented by FITR Productions at Teatro Circulo — and for good reason. A bittersweet love story, it shows the lives of Doug and Kayleen as they circl …Read more