The Elephant in the Room begins with a distinct atmosphere of menace, and at first I could not put my finger on what was causing it. Three young women: roommates Felicia, Quinn and Talia, squeezed tightly together on a small couch, address the audien …Read more

What’s a heartbroken, and lonely artist to do when he can’t get over the death of his beloved three years after she dies? Why, buy a Polaroid camera and revisit all their old familiar places trying to reconstruct their relationship, of course. Direct …Read more

If nothing else, Walter Ventosilla’s adaptation and direction of Oedipus reflects extraordinary ambition. This is an interpretation designed not to deconstruct the Sophocles classic, but to re-imagine its meaning through a single actress. Emely Grisa …Read more

One of the greatest opportunities New York City brings to the people during summertime is varied “Shakespeare in the Park” series across Manhattan. And while tickets for the Public’s productions in Central Park may be hard to come by, at Bryant Park, …Read more

There are stories so true and yet so bleak that many people don’t really want to hear them. Life Without Parole is one of these. Yet the play, produced by Working Artists Theatre Project in association with Karah Gravatt and Robert Tyrer and presente …Read more

In the mid-1920’s the Marx Brothers were perhaps the most celebrated entertainers in the United States, after a successful career in vaudeville they transitioned to Broadway where they continued making people laugh with their combination of surreal, …Read more

Based on the brilliant cult documentary of the same name, King of Kong is a charming musical parody in which two performers (Amber Ruffin & Lauren Van Kurin who also wrote the show) play unlikely rivals Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe respectively …Read more

As I watched Mohammad Rahmanian’s play Interview at the New York International Fringe Festival, I was reminded of the 1966 film The Battle of Algiers. I saw the latter years ago, and was haunted by the intense images director Gillo Pontecorvo used to …Read more

I had the pleasure of catching the very impressive Lisa Flanagan this week in La Donna Improvvisata, a show that makes improvising an entire one-person opera look remarkably easy. It begins with Flanagan asking the audience to choose an opera charact …Read more

When the popular British comedienne Margaret Rutherford was cast as Agatha Christie’s brilliant amateur detective Miss Jane Marple for a series of British movies in the 1960s she wasn’t quite sure she wanted the job. And Christie wasn’t quite sure sh …Read more