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

“Remember, after rain, there’s always sunshine.” After pulling off a major heist against a rival gang, the Five, a band of misfits and provisional brothers congregate in their clubhouse to celebrate their big win. They have the easy rapport of boys w …Read more

Long Story Short, a musical pop/rock drama from Prospect Theater Company now at 59E59, relates 50 years in a couple’s life, from how they first meet and start dating, to getting married and having children, to growing old together. An adaptation of D …Read more

The Baker’s Wife is a lesser known musical written by Joseph Stein (The Fiddler on the Roof) with music by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked) that enjoyed only a brief run in London’s West End in 1989 and has yet to be produced for a Broadway stage, t …Read more

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