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

Ever think that sharing stories with a crowd would have a sense of theatricality to it? Two Women Talking, directed by Dan Milne, takes on this challenge with performances at the A.R.T./New York South Oxford Space. The concept evokes curiosity before …Read more

Masha, Olga and Irina want more than anything to go to Moscow. But this is Chekhov and sadly no one gets what they want. Except the audience who get to choose their own adventure in this production of Three Sisters by Highly Impractical Theatre (HIT) …Read more

The McGowan Trilogy, playing now through October 5th at The Cell, invites you into an Irish mindset the moment you arrive. Expertly molded from narrow space to intimate theater, the venue’s bar is stocked with beer and Jameson. Upon sitting, an usher …Read more