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

Combine Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, a dash of cabaret and a lyricist/composer speed date that looks like the BMI writers workshop on steroids then serve it up on a platter with a side of dishy, musical theater humor and you have Tune in Time, a musical …Read more

Illness, death, divorce, missed opportunities, crushing defeats. What does it take to survive life’s crueler blows? Each of the five characters in Mat Smart’s play Naperville, having its world premiere at the June Havoc Theater, has been broadsided b …Read more

All right, let’s admit it, Allegro has a dissonant past. Written after the blinding success of both Oklahoma! and Carousel, and historically considered Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first flop, it played slightly over a year on The Great White Way in 194 …Read more