It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. In Gillian English’s production of Get Around Me!, presented by The Theatre Elusive and part of the 9th Annual FRIGID Festival (February 18 – March 8 at the Kraine Theater and UNDER St. Marks), a young …Read more

The current Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni has had a troubled existence. When it debuted in 2011, some of the words critics used to describe it were “timid” and “dreary”. New York Times music critic Zachary Woolfe …Read more

Many New York theaters strive to mine the creative brainpower of the city to keep churning out the newest, freshest, most cutting edge work they can find. Mint Theater Company, a modestly sized playhouse tucked mere steps away from the blinding Broad …Read more

Being a teenager is not easy; with hormones streaming through your system with little regard for your social life, grades or self-esteem, and the fear of discovering you don’t belong in any of the acceptable cliques because you have too much acne or …Read more

As demonstrated in Brona Crehan’s intense new drama, Pillow on the Stairs, a single decision can have the power to alter the course of our lives forever. Presented by the cell in association with Thursday Productions, and under John Keating’s directi …Read more

Just like an athlete preparing for an important match, individuals seeking out a partner must come prepared — with strategy, focus, and determination — when it comes to the game of love.  In Noah Casey’s production of Playing for Advantage, present …Read more

You know you’re watching a kids show when the one climactic kissing scene elicits an audible ‘eww!’ from the audience. Still, The Light Princess, a new musical from the Harvard A.R.T. Institute (written by Lila Rose Kaplan and Mike Pettry and directe …Read more

80 years ago, on February 2, 1935, the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre. This performance was heard nationwide as part of the extremely popular Metropolitan op …Read more

  What happens if after two kids and fifteen years of marriage, you hit a wall in your relationship that you just can’t break through? Well, if you are anything like Marco, you sign up on a gay website, confess to your wife and embark on a wild …Read more

There are two world depicted in Jennifer Haley’s new play The Nether. There is our world, which is depicted as a dark and drab interrogation room, and there is “The Hideaway”, a startlingly bright and beautiful world where one goes to escape the drud …Read more