Before he wrote Hamlet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare produced his most violent play, the bloody revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus. It was a hit. As the centuries passed and Shakespeare’s legacy as The Immortal Bard grew, Titus Andron …Read more
Maggie Bofill’s new comedy Winners is an intimately scoped, ambitiously plotted, tender screaming match, and broadly nuanced character piece — and boy does that seem like a lot of paradoxes. We are trafficking in familiar stories here. Father, Brian …Read more
January is here, and many of us are still recovering from the two to six days we were forced to spend with our families over the holidays. Whether it’s the tone your mother used when she asked about your current skincare regimen, your stepfather’s in …Read more
You needn’t be a lover of cake to enjoy the side-splitting, slapsticky series of sketches, Everybody Gets Cake! But if you happen to be, you’re in for a treat. Physical theatre company Parallel Exit has created a non-stop frenzy of familiar comedic t …Read more
After only a few moments observing the Beaumont household in Ross Howard’s No One Loves Us Here (from New Light Theater Project), you realize you’re being asked to cast aside expectations about plausible human behavior. Washington (Anthony Michael Ir …Read more
What if Marlon Brando had starred in Citizen Kane? That seems to be the question at the center of Asociación Señor Serrano’s energetic multimedia show Brickman Brando Bubble Boom. The inventive Spanish troupe has Marlon Brando (through clips of his f …Read more
The two lovers at the center of Amir Reza Koohestani’s haunting Timeloss have fought the same battle so many times, that it has practically stopped affecting them. They are two actors who have reunited years after their split in order to record lines …Read more
Why isn’t Taylor Mac in charge of all musical education programs in the United States? At his A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1900s-1950s on January 23, the outrageous theater artist made it clear that his knowledge of music is only perhaps sur …Read more
Benjamin Britten’s witty comic opera Albert Herring is a coming of age story plus a clever satire on the perils of provincial living in a small English village. The Bronx Opera Company has mounted an excellent production with a strong cast and a magn …Read more
At first, it begins like any other party. You arrive and the hostess greets you as a guest. You grab a nametag and a drink, and settle into your surroundings, a small East Village apartment. You make small talk with some strangers. You notice there’s …Read more