The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks about his patients case histories, contains stories so remarkable that they far surpass the fantasies of fiction. The Valley of Astonishment, written and directed by Peter …Read more
It is not easy to pull off a one-man show, ever. It is less easy to do this when the show is a personal history because these things so, so frequently become funky sermons or demands for attention to experiences not necessarily riveting to anyone but …Read more
Mr. Landing Takes A Fall, now playing at The Flea Theater, was written, according to the playwright Sari Caine, as a reaction to misunderstanding another play, Harold Pinter’s The Room. It’s quite clear that Mr. Landing was written while feelings of …Read more
Suzanne Tanner’s Beyond Me: A Song Cycle in the Key of Survival, is a solo effort and it is not. It is very much a collaboration on the stage at Theatre Row, and of an extremely intimate nature. Tanner presents, in multimedia and relying on extensive …Read more
Rococo Rouge, presented by Company XIV and conceived, directed, and choreographed by Austin McCormick, will be running through November 2, 2014 in their new home, XIV. Upon entering, you are immediately placed in a world of exuberance and vitality re …Read more
Hard times fall upon a family of farmers in 1949 Idaho. Even though the war has ended, Esther (Lynne McCollough) and her children still await the return of father Forrest from a POW camp in Japan. In the captivating family drama The Twelfth Labor, we …Read more
There is no more universal theme for a musical than the trials and tribulations of love and Love Quirks, a new musical (Music/Lyrics: Seth Bisen-Hersh, Book: Mark Childers) gives that universality a delightfully funny, often touching run for its mone …Read more
When you take your seat at The Tank for Rule of 7×7, an evening of seven new plays each following the same seven rules, you may think you overstepped the theater and stumbled into a reunion for an extremely large and unusually loving family. The spac …Read more
If the unlikely conjugation of that title throws you, it should. Teach, Teacher, Teachest is not theater of the absurd; it is theater of the certifiable, in keeping with the Ionesco classic, The Lesson, inspiring it. David Koteles’s play is also (pi …Read more
Say you had a hankering to watch classic Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park. Now say you only had about an hour and wanted way more laughs than the original film provides. Then get your butt to the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT) for Hold On To Your Bu …Read more