Whenever I read that an off-off Broadway theater company is putting on an eighty-year-old farce, my face instinctually contorts into the most apathetic, judgmental, completely involuntary eye-roll that it can possibly form. I don’t say this with prid …Read more

The son of Phineas Fenn – a skinny Hitchcock presenter – invites the audience to share in his father’s covert history, and everybody’s off to summer camp, as it were. Drop Dead Perfect by Erasmus Fenn (funny about the names, eh?) then reveals the twi …Read more

No show should be allowed to be as fun as Mark LaPierre’s Zombie Strippers. Set in the graveyard of an unnamed city, the show plays out like a Scooby-Doo episode imagined by the people behind Porky’s. Tiffany (Elle Bensinger) and Jinx (Sariah) are tw …Read more

Imagine that Sally Field had played Norma Rae using Carol Channing’s Dolly Levi as inspiration, and you can only begin to conceive the way in which Lynne Wintersteller takes hold of the stage as the title character in Mother Jones and the Children’s …Read more

It’s 1793 and Madame Marie Tussaud, 32, has just been commissioned by revolutionaries to make Queen Marie Antoinette’s death mask; the infamous Madame Deficit, as she was called in pamphlets, who had been guillotined a few weeks before her 38th birth …Read more

Christopher Anselmo’s and H.S. Kaufman’s Fable is, in a word, tricky. The musical is set at a high school graduation party and, if you’re thinking maybe a Breakfast Club with songs, you’re not far off. You will also be in the ballpark if you conjure …Read more

Welcome to 1952 New York City, where men wear hats, commies are red and the only way to get dirt on your favorite celebrity is to overhear a private conversation on the subway. Until Big Bob Harrison comes along. When we first meet Harrison (Kevin Sp …Read more

John Dirrigl’s heartwrenching play The Bauer Sisters unfolds in one afternoon on Rosie’s farm in Connecticut: it is 1986, and the women of the local German American club have gathered to prepare and enjoy lunch together. The women’s dynamic friendshi …Read more

A star is born in Piece of My Heart as the charismatic Zak Resnick takes on Bert Berns, the songwriter/producer behind some of the greatest hits of all time including “Twist and Shout”, “I Want Candy” and “Piece of My Heart”. When the show opens Bert …Read more

59E59 is presenting their annual Summer Shorts Festival. The following is a review of Series A. (For our review of Series B, click here.) The Sky and the Limit, written by Roger Hedden, directed by Billy Hopkins The Sky and the Limit starts out with …Read more