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

We know the stories and iconic songs so well that it’s hard to believe that characters from Disney movies may have their own tales to tell. Disenchanted!, currently running at the Westside Theater, may permanently alter your views of Disney royalty. …Read more

Underland, director Mia Rovegno and playwright Alexandra Collier’s new play on stage now at 59E59 Theaters, starts as any coming-of-age teen story might. Two girls, Violet and Ruth, clad in school uniforms, light up a joint behind their school, share …Read more

In the same vein as the 2010 musical satire Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, New World Stages’ Clinton the Musical takes one of America’s most controversial presidential terms and adds singing and dancing to exaggerated caricatures of historical figures …Read more