F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing is often criticized for being a triumph of wit and style over any real substantive meaning. While that may well be in dispute among literary critics, it certainly seems to have been taken to heart by the writers o …Read more

There was palpable anticipation at the Public Theater as audiences stirred in their seats, awaiting the newest work by provocateur and downtown darling Young Jean Lee. The much lauded Lee has challenged conventions with her intrepid brand of theater …Read more

When was the last time you were told to keep your phone on in the theater? Isn’t there, wasn’t there a law about that in New York City? Not at Blank! The Musical, the new Off-Broadway show that opened November 17 at New World Stages. At Blank! having …Read more

Although Christopher Marlowe was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, and was said to have influenced the Bard, he never achieved the same renown as Shakespeare due to his sudden death at age 29. If he had lived, he might have been as prominent, if …Read more

Samuel Beckett, perhaps the twentieth century’s greatest playwright, met his idol James Joyce in Paris during the late 1920s. The young writer actually assisted Joyce in the completion of his final work Finnegan’s Wake. What ideas passed in intimate …Read more

Leo Tolstoy alleged, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” With all the flair of a magician, Heidi Schreck conjures both in her new play Grand Concourse, now running at Playwrights Horizons …Read more

It might seem like a curious thing for an off-Broadway show to premiere at 11 a.m. on a weekday, but at The Actors Temple Theatre there is a method to such madness. The Love Note, a new musical written by Gail Phaneuf and directed by Russell Garrett, …Read more

David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones took the Tony for Best Play in 1972. It also – and I remember it well – shook up New York theater like a 5 on the Richter scale. Nothing before had so slammed together ideas of classic Americana and the broken jetsam of …Read more

In their production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the New York Deaf Theatre presents an outstanding, interpretive rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story. The ensemble, made up of deaf, ASL-fluent and hearing voice actor …Read more

Richard Pearson Thomas’ comic opera A Wake or a Wedding, now playing at the Rose Nagelberg Theater/Baruch Performing Arts Center, receives a vivacious world premiere production from Encompass New Opera Theater, a company dedicated to creating, develo …Read more