“Life upon the wicked stage ain’t ever what a girl supposes,” Oscar Hammerstein II famously noted. Now French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce concurs. Lagarce’s play Music Hall (mounted by TUTA Theatre Chicago at 59E59 Theaters in a version translated by …Read more

Now more than ever, the relationship between men and women threatens to explode into an all out war. Thankfully Robert Dubac still feels that we should be able to laugh at the flaws both sexes carry with them. Produced by Urban Stages and running in …Read more

Does the truth really hurt, or does it make you laugh? As Robert Dubac illustrates in his one-man show The Book of Moron, presented by Urban Stages, the answer is a bit of both. Not to be confused with the similarly titled musical – “If you came here …Read more

See, see the heavens smile, with clouds no more o’er cast. In this now happy, happy isle, are all your sorrows past. Gotham Chamber Opera continues to set the bar high for innovation and creativity.  The company’s The Tempest Songbook at the Metropol …Read more

Many pieces of theater, dance, and multimedia performance effectively target social issues and open an audience’s eyes to their privilege and personal social responsibility. In Quit the Road, Jack, Jerry Polner sets out to commentate on the negative …Read more

Lonesome Traveler, written and directed by James O’Neil, is playing at 59E59 Theaters as part of the inaugural 5A season. It stars an ensemble cast of nine singers/musicians who tell the story of America from the 1920s through the 1960s through folk …Read more

Whenever a show gets a Broadway revival, one has to wonder why exactly it is being revived. What does the show contribute to a new generation of theatergoers? What does it say about the time when it was made and how does that come into play in our ti …Read more

Since we’ve already reviewed Cast 1 of Romeo and Juliet, in this review we’ll omit the choice of setting, projections as well as the dances because they are kept exactly the same. See that review here: https://stagebuddy.com/reviews/review-hypokrit-t …Read more

Battalion Theatre’s production of Erica Lipez’s The Tutors, presented by FRIGID New York at Horse Trade @ The Kraine Theater, and under Gadi Rubin’s direction, relates the plight of three roommates as they edit college admission essays and tutor to p …Read more

Imagine that you’ve lived in the dark your whole life when one day the lights are suddenly turned on. Would it disturb you to see that the world is nothing like how you imagined it? That’s the question put forth in Jack Karp’s brilliant opening monol …Read more