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
In Abingdon Theater Company’s It Has To Be You, three children reunite in their old family home after a neighbor tips them off that their elderly mother may be demented. Comedy ensues when the trio learn that their mother, far from demented, has take …Read more
Fourteen years ago in Ireland, an aunt and three nieces locked themselves in their home and began a forty day hunger strike that ended in all of their deaths. While some say it was a political action, others suspect they did it for puritanical religi …Read more
Brad Zimmerman turns his failure at a traditional success story into a great running joke for his one-man stand-up show, My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy. Most mothers dream of their sons becoming doctors, lawyers, businessmen. Zimmerman spent nea …Read more
It turns out, as I discovered last night at The York Theatre’s “Musicals in Mufti” performance of BIG, sometimes being forced to eat your words can be an entirely wonderful experience. I arrived at the theater unfamiliar with the term “Mufti” but Jam …Read more
