Unexpressed grief is the powerful unseen force behind all the characters in Elaine Smith’s play Angels and Ministers of Grace, premiering at New Jersey Repertory Company, a marvelous small theater in Long Branch, NJ dedicated to nurturing and produci …Read more

Hailing from Israel, the extravagant theatre group Tziporela might as well be advertised as coming from Saturn. Such is their genre-defying uniqueness that you might have a hard time believing the people onstage are actually human. In their show Odd …Read more

Suzan-Lori Parks is easily one of the most ambitious playwrights writing today. Using athletically poetic language, stunning imagery, and complex characterizations, she creates worlds that are visceral, hard-hitting, and indubitably theatrical. Her l …Read more

Lift, a new play by acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley, is captivating upon setting foot into 59E59 Theaters. The exposed set, designed by Andrei Onegin, defines the specificity of the situation: the elevator car of a Manhattan skyscraper. The entire a …Read more

Melissa Ritz, who would have been described years ago as a leggy blonde, is a woman on a quest. In brief, she abandoned a long and profitable career as a cocktail server in Vegas for the New York theater scene, and New York is none the worse for it. …Read more

Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre presents Carnaval a modern, provocative play about the sex tourism industry in Brazil, the commodification of the female body, the exploitation of the lower class and the consequences of what often happen …Read more

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