Recently I had the pleasure of seeing a one-woman show called A Kind Shot, a lovely, raw and emotional piece written and performed by Terri Mateer at the Davenport Theater in Midtown. Walking into the theater, the first thing you notice is a bare set …Read more

Philip Barry’s 1932 comedy The Animal Kingdom — revived by the Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective and directed by Jacob Titus — is less well known than Barry’s Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), both of which became film vehicles f …Read more

“How did he do that?” According to magician/storyteller Nelson Lugo, this is not the important question. The important question is “Why?” And so, in his autobiographical one-man show Gathering the Magic, Lugo tells his audience why, for him, magic is …Read more

An older former couple reflecting on the trajectory of their relationship. A 25-year-old woman losing her virginity. A gay man witnessing a motel room gang bang. A romance between two people who have never met in the flesh. All are stories played out …Read more

Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country is one of the most beloved comedies of manners in all of Russian theatre, and yet it seems that the current Classic Stage Company production has skipped the comedy and merely focused on the manners. Set in the c …Read more

Shesh Yak, now playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a ruthless two hander about two men whose past trails them like stray dogs.  It is the spring of 2011, five weeks into the civil uprising in Syria, and we are in Jameel’s tiny apartment, c …Read more

The sumptuously talented and Olivier Award-winning Complicite theater company proves that they know just how to include kids and adults in fun theatrical storytelling with the U.S. premiere of their new production, Lionboy, at the New Victory Theater …Read more

The Road to Damascus, Tom Dulack’s new play at 59E59 Theaters, is explosive. Quite literally; the play opens on a scene of crisis. Suicide bombers have attacked Miami and New York City near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral (an unsettlin …Read more

Before he wrote Hamlet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare produced his most violent play, the bloody revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus. It was a hit. As the centuries passed and Shakespeare’s legacy as The Immortal Bard grew, Titus Andron …Read more

Maggie Bofill’s new comedy Winners is an intimately scoped, ambitiously plotted, tender screaming match, and broadly nuanced character piece — and boy does that seem like a lot of paradoxes. We are trafficking in familiar stories here. Father, Brian …Read more