“Potion,” an experimental play sprung from the strange and creative minds of Kiran Rikhye and Jon Stancato, is a refreshing story that is equal parts Shakespeare, soap opera and “Alice in Wonderland.” The show takes place in a dark but enticing bar d …Read more

Something significant — and entertaining, to boot — is going on one flight up at the Tada Theater on 28th Street. Four people maneuver through their relationships in a modern little play that (hallelujah!) knocks the stuffing out of a zeitgeist tha …Read more

Shakespeare’s most fascinating and troubling character, Shylock the money lender, has returned to haunt the stage once again in “The Merchant of Venice”, presented by The Shakespeare Forum, a group of talented New York artists dedicated to exploring …Read more

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” –Edgar Allen Poe “The Raven” is one of Poe’s most famous and recognized works. It has been turned into parody poems, comic books, cartoons, several films (including a 2012 thriller depicting …Read more

While leaving last night’s performance of “Why Bother?” at the Paradise Factory, a friend (and theater neophyte), remarked, “It was very funny. But it wasn’t a comedy.” And that is very succinctly the heart of the four-story play directed by Andrew B …Read more

There is a good deal to say for Michael Thomas Walker’s one-man play, “Bubba”, not the least of which is how Walker manages to be true to the South without rendering it cartoon-ish. As the actor/playwright takes the audience through his journey home …Read more

Fairy tales are hot stuff.  Fractured within the surreal landscape of Rocky and Bullwinkle, probed to menacing depths by Bettelheim, and reconfigured to suit the irony and artistry of Sondheim, it would seem, in fact, that there isn’t much left in th …Read more

When it comes to Elena Zucker’s dark absurdist play “O Walter, My Walter”, timing is everything. In light of the recent Veteran Affairs scandal, a play inspired by the uncovering of Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s criminal neglect of its veteran pa …Read more

“I’m an alien to New York.”  “I fail and continue to fail every day.” These are the words spoken in “Halfway Through the Story of Our Life”, a play written, directed, and produced by Alexandra Zelman-Doring presented by Throes Theater. Set in modern …Read more

“A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes”, a new play at Dixon Place, is a story about a family dinner that’s as familiar as Mom’s legendary Thanksgiving gravy but with a dash of surprising twists thrown in for goo …Read more