When the Signature Theatre commissioned a work from legendary South African playwright Athold Fugard, he retraced his steps back into an unfinished piece on Nukain Mabuza, a relatively unknown outsider artist, also South African, in order to create T …Read more

A thoughtful and realistic look into the depths of a woman’s right to choose, Melissa’s Choice takes audiences on one woman’s personal journey. Playwright Steven Somkin explores a controversial issue in a compassionate and insightful way. Under Mel C …Read more

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