Listening to the final strains of medieval music sung from the vestibule leading to the altar and looking at the last vestiges of daylight coming through the stained glass windows at Trinity Church on Wall Street, I thought what a perfect antidote Th …Read more

For ten glorious years, from 1938 to 1948, Greenwich Village nightclub Café Society was the place to be for jazz musicians, comics and lovers alike. Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Zero Mostel, Sid Caesar and many others got t …Read more

Most of us remember all too well the tender, teenage clashes with mom and dad: yes, I’ll call you when I get there; no, we won’t be drinking; yes, I’ll put on a scarf. In her new play, About Face, now playing at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg thro …Read more

Kate Dimbleby has a passion for exploring the work of female singers. A decade ago, she toured her one woman show Fever! The Making of Peggy Lee internationally; her newest project, now having its US premiere at 59E59th Theaters, highlights the lesse …Read more

Currently on stage at the intimate Access Theater in SoHo is What We Know, a contemporary American retelling of Chekhov’s play Three Sisters. The tale focuses on three sisters, all raised in “The City,” now forced to reside in the family’s country ho …Read more

Evenings of multiple one-act plays are almost always a joy. With the limited time most off Broadway productions have to put themselves together, shorter pieces allow each of the ensembles more time to polish a production.  With their If on a Winter’s …Read more

Christmas With the Crawfords, now playing at the Abrons Arts Center and starring Joey Arias, Chris March, and Sherry Vine, is a droll parody of the “at-home with the stars” holiday specials of yesteryear. The year is 1940 and in her Brentwood mansion …Read more

If your kind of Messiah is less Handel and more ha-ha, the holidays will never be the same for you once you’ve heard Victoria Clark ask William Ferguson to stop playing with himself because “we have tickets to the stoning”. At the New York City premi …Read more

Walking home from Dixon Place, the “laboratory for performance” in the Lower East Side, I’m not sure if I was any closer to understanding exactly what a ‘War Lesbian’ is than I was when I walked into the theater. And yet, what transpired over the cou …Read more

All That Dies and Rises is a mashup of movement and words sprawled over a blank white stage devised by physical theatre company Cloud of Fools and directed by James Rutherford of theatre company M-34. Taking excerpts from the works of famous writers …Read more