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

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