With so many different variations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet out there today, one can often forget how powerful and evocative the original script is, on it’s own, delivered expertly by a small cast of talented actors. Shakespeare in the Squar …Read more
Ever wanted to sit in on someone else’s first date? You’ll get to do just that at The Blind Date Project, presented as part of the 2015 COIL Festival. What is fun about the piece is that every single performance is different. The audience enters the …Read more
Thanksgiving has never been more athletic than is portrayed in Kate Benson’s new play, whose full title is A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, a co-production of New Georges and the Women’s Project. The play v …Read more
In life, we are taught to prepare for the worst but hope for the best. Never before has this popular adage had more poignancy than in The Actual Dance, written and performed by Samuel A. Simon. Instead of spending his golden years relaxing and celebr …Read more
The production design of Nick Payne’s Constellations has more in common with a scientific fair exhibition, or a hip club even, than your regular theatre set. A square platform surrounded by a thin fluorescent light at its center, with countless white …Read more
It made sense that playwright Kyoung H. Park took a moment before his play, Tala, to introduce the venue in which we sat. Founded over a century ago, The University Settlement in the Lower East Side is one of the very first community centers, a place …Read more
Sometimes you are fortunate to have an extraordinary experience in the theater, when all the elements come together gloriously. I received such a blessing at The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera that is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival and co-pr …Read more
“Time is unforgiving and thoughtless” says one of the characters in Leonardo Moreira’s O Jardim, a perfect line to sum up this pithy, devastating play about the capricious cruelty of memory. Three stories from three different times share the same set …Read more
The drums. The songs. The dance. And the people. The spirit of South Africa manifested through Africa Umoja: 20 Years Freedom and Democracy, a musical celebration of South African song and dance. The audience’s journey centered around the narrative o …Read more
The Rap Guide To Religion, now playing at the SoHo Playhouse, is a ninety minute journey into one of the topics you should never discuss at the dinner table: I’ll let you guess which one. Baba Brinkman with the help of his sweet hip-hop rhymes takes …Read more
