SEE OR SKIP: Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong In this arts column, rather than provide a lengthy critique, we hit the bullet points and share our thoughts on whether a show is worth seeing or skipping. Of course, your own reasons for pick …Read more

Throughout “Drama at the Point”, written and performed by Karen Sklaire, the teacher/heroine of the one-woman show introduces each vignette or episode of her hilarious narrative with statements like “in ‘Dangerous Minds’ Michelle Pfeifer says…” or …Read more

SEE OR SKIP: The Bridges of Madison County In this arts column, rather than provide a lengthy critique, we hit the bullet points and share our thoughts on whether a show is worth seeing or skipping. Of course, your own reasons for picking or ignoring …Read more

All of the characters in Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses” seem to have a little bit of an oversharing problem. When John (Michael C. Hall) tells his neighbor Jennifer Jones (Toni Collette) she has pretty eyes, she replies by saying that she actuall …Read more

In the first installment of their Weaving Series, a series which weaves together two or more Shakespearean plays in innovative ways, the theater group Bottoms Dream has brought to the stage an amalgamation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Romeo an …Read more

On April 1, sketch groups Business Computer and Hot Buffet teamed up to bring a full 90 minutes of comedy to the Secret Theater. The two teams both brought their A-games to the Long Island City space and played to their ensembles’ strengths. Up first …Read more

When Peter Michael Marino gets up on stage, his comfort and casual demeanor make the audience feel as if we were in his apartment for an intimate gathering. This feeling of intimacy, as it turns out, is appropriate: it’s not long before he starts sha …Read more

Life in high school can feel like an everyday battle from which only the fittest come out alive. With endless clique wars, peer pressure and unrealistic demands for perfection, young men and women find themselves overindulging in metaphors and hyperb …Read more

Paula Vogel’s play “And Baby Makes Seven” was originally unsuccessful. After its initial production in 1984, she deemed it her “Scottish play”, allegedly because of harsh homophobic reception. The “gay family play” tells the story of Anna and Ruth, a …Read more

Beau Willimon, author of sharp political dramas “Farragut North” and “House of Cards”, experiments with a different kind of politics in “Breathing Time”.  He presents us with an anonymous office somewhere in the Financial District, shared by a number …Read more