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

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