Buzz, that juicy, onomatopoetic word with so many meanings: insect noise, bustling activity, excited gossip. That last one might become especially apropos for Buzz, the new play by novelist and founding editor of n+1 magazine, Benjamin Kunkel. Before …Read more
James Dickey’s Deliverance, Godlight Theater Company’s world premier theatrical adaptation of Dickey’s 1970 novel, Deliverance, is a theatrical tour de force that will grab you from the moment you step into the theater and keep you in its grip well p …Read more
Everyone loves a good sports story and Secondary Pitch does not let down! As if the premise of a show about brothers and baseball weren’t enough of a draw, the world premiere production from Randomly Specific Theatre has the added bonus of viewing li …Read more
Grab a pint of your favorite ale and go UNDER St. Marks for a little time traveling with Wish Experience’s “drinkeractive comedy,” A Brief History of Beer. Set aboard the “Quantum Pint Machine” (yes, really) in a sort of Star Trek parody, complete wi …Read more
Watching The Belle of Amherst at the Westside Theater, I found myself reminded of a line in a Bob Dylan song where he rasps, “people tell me it’s a sin/to know and feel too much within.” Enter Emily Dickinson, The Belle herself, that mysterious figur …Read more
Two lost souls meet up for a night of redemption in YOLO! Productions presentation of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Danny (Michael Micalizzi) and Roberta (Nairoby Otero), each more screwed up than the other, are the only conscio …Read more
Inspired by Paris’ legendary playhouse of horror, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol, Blood Brothers productions presents Bedlam Nightmares: Execution Day, an anthology of short plays focused on the bizarre, the horrific and the insane. The show is currentl …Read more
Sometimes it’s not so simple to get your voice heard. Sometimes you have to fight for it. And that’s exactly what the EstroGenius Festival has been doing for fifteen years. Despite losing their home with theater company Manhattan Theater Source in 20 …Read more
Turning the Glass Around is a poignant drama about a Korean American man’s unraveling following the death of his father. Written by Pia Wilson and now playing at Teatro Circulo, the play is an in-depth exploration of grief and mental illness in the f …Read more
Excuse My Dust (A Dorothy Parker Portfolio) is created and performed by Jennifer Engstrom with honesty, rawness and empathy. Parker, American poet and writer who died in 1967, is portrayed as a woman misunderstood by society and in constant despair o …Read more
