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

Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre and The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s 50th Anniversary production of “Dutchman” is a compelling contemporary portrayal of one of Amiri Baraka’s most powerful, yet controversial pieces of literature. In th …Read more

Second Stage Theater might easily be one of my favorite companies in New York City, offering diverse and prevalent theater for modern audiences.  The stakes and tensions run high in their production of Jon Robin Baitz’s “Substance of Fire”, a phenome …Read more

Tongue in Cheek Production’s “Buffalo Heights” is a mostly funny look at what can happen in small town Buffalo, NY when a new French teacher is brought in to take over the high school class that a Congress woman’s daughter thinks she controls. Heads …Read more

“Annapurna” isn’t a title that rolls off the tongue, but it works for the tone of this play: not everything here is easy. Playwright Sharr White has written a dense piece about a difficult and complicated relationship between two people unable to liv …Read more

SEE or SKIP: After Midnight SEE because: It’s about the best Broadway revue to come down the pike in a decade or three. So polished and so precise while being so energetic. There’s no filler, no mawkishness, no mugging or begging for applause, no “Am …Read more

Growing up in the south, with an abusive, alcoholic father and a passive and emotionally void mother, young Doug Knott made the decision never to pass on his family’s legacy, promising to himself never to become a father.  In “Last of the Knotts”, Kn …Read more