Dirt, written by Robert Schneider (and translated by Paul Dvorak), tells the peculiar story of Sad, a Middle Eastern illegal immigrant who lives surreptitiously in a rickety tenement. Sad’s love for his new country is effervescent, and he spends most …Read more

The terrible beauty of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is how it deeply reveals the cause of human unhappiness. To quote the Buddha, suffering comes from attachment and the inability to accept what is. Each of the main four characters in The Pearl Theatr …Read more

“I didn’t want to be a nurse, I wanted to be a rapper.” — Craig “muMs” Grant I should confess my bias: One, I don’t love one-man shows. Two, I have a massive artistic crush on Craig “muMs” Grant. All things considered, Mr. Grant doesn’t disappoint w …Read more

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