When I found out that Chemistry, the play I recently attended as part of the Fringe Encore Series, was about mental illness, I was apprehensive at best. Through experiences with family and friends, I understand mental illness firsthand, am all too aw …Read more

With poetic dialogue and powerful imagery, playwright Catherine Filloux in her new play Selma ’65 has written a beautiful solo vehicle for actress Marietta Hedges. Based in part on the true events surrounding the civil rights movement and the Selma V …Read more

The weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft have assumed new life at the Kraine Theatre in RadioTheatre’s sixth festival devoted to the author’s work. The week-long event, presented as part of the FRIGID Festival, casts the reclusive Rhode Island writer as a k …Read more

The EstroGenius Festival, running from October 2nd – November 2nd, celebrates female voices and gives female theater professionals the means to perform their art form on stage. The festival features one-woman shows, stand-up comedy, benefit performan …Read more

In a city where mega-musicals and big-budget productions of magical creatures, epic heroes, and spectacles often dominate the stage, the DR2 Theatre on East 15thStreet contains a gem that reminds us how compelling normal everyday life can be. The Iri …Read more

It’s always difficult to surprise in a story about dysfunctional siblings. However, Ruth and Naomi, a play following Naomi’s attempts to escape the suffocating dependency of her disabled younger sister Ruth, defies all expectations with beautifully w …Read more

I Am Me, playing through October 13th throughout New York, is a site un-specific one-woman show, animating the writing of Russian playwright Alexandra Chichkanova. Conceived and performed by Nicole Kontolefa, who studied acting at Studio Six in Mosco …Read more

I’ll admit that when I first heard about the PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Old Man and The Old Moon at the New Victory Theater, I was skeptical. Despite all the hype and my editors raving about the show, I had reservations. After all, there were to be sha …Read more

A genuine Italian pizza joint is nothing if not a multi-purpose, American space, a place for family get-togethers, meetings, reunions, casual lunches. So it’s pretty cheeky that Sean J. Quinn set his middle-class, dark comedy, Money Grubbin’ Whores, …Read more

Having seen Ira Lewis’s Chinese Coffee nearly 24 hours ago, I remain catatonic in regard to relating the evening: there is simply too much to say. This is the kind of excellent two-character drama in which a galaxy of possibilities erupts every few m …Read more