If birth is the sweetest ache of motherhood, then loss of a child must be hell’s torment. Sarah Ruhl’s newest play, The Oldest Boy, touches hell. Premiering at Lincoln Center, The Oldest Boy is the third play in the ongoing relationship Lincoln Cente …Read more

I heard it said once that theater is everywhere, but I don’t know if I ever really invested in that corny platitude until last Friday, when I had the pleasure of seeing a truly moving piece of stagecraft miles away from the lights of Broadway in a ch …Read more

When the lights rise on William Goulet’s new play Filler, the off-kilter relationship between its central characters, Marian (Gabriele Schafer) and Adler (Ross Pivec), is firmly established: She is trying to walk him through a sexual role-play sessio …Read more

Nefarious Laboratory’s Awesome People, part of the 3rd Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival, showcased a multitude of storytelling talent, hosted by Brad Lawrence, a favorite with Moth audiences. In the teeny black-box theater UNDER St. Marks, four pe …Read more

A few thousand years later, not a whole lot surpasses the Oresteia of Aeschylus in terms of good old-fashioned family dysfunction on an epic scale. The myriad conflicts of the House of Atreus do not ever die, the bloody ends of its primary members as …Read more

A man stands alone on stage under a single light. He is speaking fast, wringing his hands, his eyes unfocused, head twitching excitedly. He is talking about the future of music, how one day, what a composer thinks up will automatically be transmitted …Read more

On hearing a Tsonga tale about some magical birds that caused havoc and destruction until they were tamed by the playing of an enchanted flute, it occurred to director Mark Dornford-May how reminiscent the story was of Mozart’s masterpiece, The Magic …Read more

Voices of the Tarantate is an original piece written and directed by Alessandra Belloni. This dance-opera tells the story of Belloni’s internal healing, and how she then shared that with others through the “tarantalla,” the spider dance. In honor of …Read more

At the time of its publication in 1914, Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons elicited highly polarized reactions. The work of short prose poems, which is divided into three sections (“Objects”, “Food”, and “Rooms”) explores mundane objects with experiment …Read more

Encompass New Opera Theater celebrated it’s 2014 Gala at the National Arts Club by gathering together the who’s who of musical theater for a concert honoring Tony and Academy Award winning legend Joel Grey and award winning composer Jeanine Tesori. T …Read more