Water and public speaking are among the things that people fear the most. In the solo show Underwaterguy, actor, musician, visual artist and free diver Steve Underwood bravely tells his life story by way of his love of water, all while acknowledging …Read more
It starts, like many nightmares, with toilet trouble. In Cory Finley’s horror-comedy The Feast, a world premiere at the Flea Theater, live-in couple Anna and Matt’s relationship takes a turbulent turn when the head starts making noise. What follows i …Read more
There are some plays driven by a narrative plot and others by a concept; Knock: A Journey to a Strange Country is the latter. The theater group Lost and Found Project has created this ensemble piece using the work of 20th-century poet Daniil Kharms a …Read more
The Liquid Plain, Naomi Wallace’s sharp new play now showing at Signature Theatre, has all the trappings of a truly great night in theater. Beautifully lyrical, stark, and gripping, it tells the story of two black women, Adjua and Dembi, living on th …Read more
The Roundabout Theatre revival of On the Twentieth Century is the epitome of the adage “they don’t make them like they used to”, from the moment you take your seat in the American Airlines Theatre and are faced with an imposing metal-like curtain, br …Read more
Sutton Foster is so generous a performer that she celebrated her upcoming birthday by giving the audience a present. The night of March 13, 2015, as she joined The New York Pops to make her solo debut at Carnegie Hall, she announced at one point she …Read more
The fact that Georg Büchner never completed Woyzeck has given other artists the liberty to use the premise as a template to explore their own particular obsessions, with some choosing to “respect” the piece and adhering to what they think the author’ …Read more
Despite of the sheer optimism evoked by her name, Sunny (Jennifer Lim), the heroine in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness has a life that’s anything but. Born to a family of peasants in the People’s Republic of China, as a newborn …Read more
Penned by the late Jovanka Bach and directed/produced by her widower, John Stark, O’Neill’s Ghosts is a portrait of playwright Eugene O’Neill at the time he wrote his acknowledged masterwork, the largely autobiographical Long Day’s Journey into Night …Read more
Few festivals can stake claim to the diversity of work that Cabrini Theater’s Venus/Adonis Festival delivers. An almost altruistic championing of new work, Cabrini offers a singular playground for playwrights both emerging and established. If the six …Read more