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

  Just sitting in El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio before Gotham Chamber Opera and Tectonic Theater Project’s production of El gato con botas (Puss in Boots) begins is a visual prelude to the magical hour of music, storytelling and puppetry that …Read more

The theatrical event that contains the most Christmas Spirit might not be at either Radio City or Madison Square Garden. In Fields Where They Lay, an incredible new play by Ricardo Pérez González, doesn’t feature Santa, or Elves, or Grinches, or Who’ …Read more

The Irish Repertory’s production of A Christmas Memory has all the makings of a seasonal classic: a heartwarming story, beautiful music and a brilliant star turn by Alice Ripley who plays Sook, the child-like distant cousin of young Buddy, played by …Read more

Self Made Man: The Frederick Douglass Story takes the audience on heartfelt journey to another time and place not so long ago. Frederick Douglass was the son of his slave mother and a plantation owner who learned to read, escaped, purchased his own f …Read more