We all choose to go to the theater for a myriad of reasons, be it inspiration, escape or the opportunity to see a familiar face upon the stage…I sat at the Palace Theater looking at the bare empty stage, flooded with excitement and anticipation as …Read more

Katorga; An Ozet Performance is the new production at St. Mark’s Church and the last Incubator Arts Project to be held at St. Mark’s. And for a farewell, this show goes out with a very interesting bang. Katorga is an experience. It is a non-tradition …Read more

The line between art and activism has always been blurred, but it was never more so than at Sunday night’s Playwrights Against Hunger gala to benefit City Harvest. The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, a not-for-profit arts festival that supports …Read more

What would you do if you knew that one day you’d suffer a terribly paralyzing injury, and that you had the ability to stop it? Would you travel back in time to kidnap yourself?  Because we know someone who would and she wrote a play about it: RETCONt …Read more

I would seriously make Apathy Girl my superhero name, but unfortunately don’t care enough to ever become a superhero in the first place. Thankfully, our titular character is more emotionally available, or else we wouldn’t have a show to review here. …Read more

Since his death in 1900, Oscar Wilde’s life and work has been the subject of countless plays, movies, biographies and other books. To this long list, James Melo’s “The Trial of Oscar Wilde”, currently performed by the Romantic Century Theater Company …Read more

“The Taste of It”, the new show at Theater 54, is exhausting. Amazing, but exhausting. The story that follows young artists Sheila (Briana Pozner) and Ross (Landon G. Woodson) as they come to grips with their art, their relationship and each other is …Read more

Though it’s exceedingly difficult, there are many ways for a musician to get his songs on Broadway. One way is to go to workshops, collaborate with theater veterans and have a half-dozen musicals ready to go at any given time. Another is to become a …Read more

We’ve all been there before. At one point or another in our creatively genius lives we’ve had an idea or inspiration that we felt was so personal to our own identity, no one else would understand.  That is the story of Alex, who along with his brothe …Read more

If the Mint Theater’s program is to be believed, Jules Romain’s “Donogoo” premiered in Paris in 1930 and caused – even for the French – quite a sensation. This seems likely; this is a comedy with a darkly cynical edge to it, and one all the more pote …Read more