Irish actor and musician Brian Fleming — a heterosexual man — became an accidental activist for LGBT rights several years ago after a photograph of him at a gay gathering happened to be printed in the now-defunct News of the World. A Sacrilegious Les …Read more

The first page of the Seeing Place’s program for Othello, the opening play of their sixth season, states: “Othello is not just a ‘black’ play…it relates to all of us today, particularly in our current climate of strained Arab-American relations.” Wha …Read more

Long before the spate of apocalyptic science fiction disaster films with movie stars like Will Smith wandering through crumbling metropolises, there was the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth. A theatrical mixture o …Read more

Swiss-born writer, explorer and enigma Isabelle Eberhardt is a subject worthy of an epic. Killed in 1904 by a flash flood in Algeria, Eberhardt lived by her own set of rules, often eschewing patriarchal codes of propriety asserted by both her Victori …Read more

The shadowy lit office of the private detective, the distressed dame, the missing person. To successfully lampoon a genre, you first have to faithfully reproduce it in as recognizable of terms as possible. Stolen Chair’s Kill Me Like You Mean It, the …Read more

Antony Raymond’s original play Pretty Babies, presented by Elsinore County Theater Company at 13th Street Rep Theater, introduces us over time to six characters who use each other for their own personal gains, all while justifying to themselves that …Read more

New York City is full of struggling actors who keep the faith that their big break, their moment in the spotlight, is just around the corner. Billy Hipkins, writer and star of For the Benefit of Miss Jennie Gourlay, knows more than anyone that these …Read more

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