Amtrak 284 Empire Service, part of the 2015 Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, and brought to audiences by Paloma D’Auria, tells the story of four young people aboard an Amtrak train, as they struggle to decipher their relationship statuses. Whil …Read more

Parents of prospective private school students, take note: even recommendations from George Clooney or Pope Francis will not guarantee you a spot at the school of your choice. The world of New York private school admissions is notoriously competitive …Read more

  I am an avid collector of quotes about living an authentic life, and after seeing The Lion, written and performed by award winning singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, I have a new one from the title song for my collection: Inside my gentle paw …Read more

It is a great feat in theater to create a universe so full and so convincing that it sits with audience members, deep in their gut, long after they leave the theater. Such was the case in Miranda Theatre Company’s Off-Broadway production of Joe Pinta …Read more

The first time I heard about Hypokrit Theater’s “Bollywood” version of “Romeo & Juliet” I thought – wow, that’s a fun idea. On several occasions when it’s been mentioned in conversation, people have immediately latched into the concept and have s …Read more

As the world marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, New York audiences are given a gift in Miwa Yanagi’s visually splendid theater piece, Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape, which opens the Japan Society’s series Stories from the War. Using as …Read more

In 1791 President George Washington commissioned architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design the capital of the United States. The French-born architect sought inspiration from some of Europe’s most beautiful cities including Milan and Amsterdam, but …Read more

Anton Dudley’s fascinating new play City Of, a production of The Playwrights Realm at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, explores living in “The In-Between” — what one character in City Of calls “the sustained waking dream…eternal twilight: entre chien et …Read more

Recently I had the pleasure of seeing a one-woman show called A Kind Shot, a lovely, raw and emotional piece written and performed by Terri Mateer at the Davenport Theater in Midtown. Walking into the theater, the first thing you notice is a bare set …Read more

Philip Barry’s 1932 comedy The Animal Kingdom — revived by the Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective and directed by Jacob Titus — is less well known than Barry’s Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), both of which became film vehicles f …Read more