Playlab NYC describes its production of “Professor Ralph’s Loss of Breath” as “Punch and Judy meets the Book of Job in Professor Ralph’s neglected masterpiece.” What should be added to this description is “an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short sto …Read more

In “Confessions of a Red Headed Coffeeshop Girl”, the sassy, sarcastic, and humorous Rebecca Perry brings us inside the everyday life of Joanie Little as she takes on her first real job after college. As we are soon to find out, there is, in fact, no …Read more

“Questions of the Heart: Gay Mormons and the Search for Identity”, an hour long show written and performed by Ben Abbott and directed by Mark Kamie, has all the elements that make a show worth seeing: an engaging opening, thought-provoking material a …Read more

Hey, hey, LBJ, how many critics did you win over today? That’s the question producers are asking tonight, March 6th, following the opening of “All the Way”, a historical drama by Robert Schenkkan about the difficult presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Brya …Read more

A hostage, a wife, a reporter and a state department representative are at odds: how to best handle this tense situation? In Lee Blessing’s “Two Rooms”, now at the Seeing Place Theater, you’ll be kept wondering about whose motives are suspect and who …Read more

Turn To Flesh Productions certainly chose a relevant story to present for Valentine’s weekend of 2014: the myth of Cupid and Psyche. “Cupid and Psyche”, written and directed by Emily C. A. Snyder, is their very first play — a comedy with the audacit …Read more

Liliana Ashman gives the impression of being a charming person and passionate theater maker. In her one woman show “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gardaí” she refers to herself as a girl who once had “fire in her eyes.” In the piece, an …Read more

A one-person show is perhaps the best setup for a play centered on a 30-something-year-old divorced woman who lives in New York City and who’s unsure of herself. In “A date for the evening”, playwright and performer Celestial Zenith invites her audie …Read more

“Antony and Cleopatra” is a story of love in the time of war. As much of the world descends into conflict, it seems appropriate that this story should come to the New York stage: the Public has done so with great bravura and solid theatricality. Tare …Read more

Megan O’Leary’s one-act play “Charlotte the Destroyer” chronicles the downward spiral of a once-successful children’s book author, whose vain efforts to transition to adult novels lead to depression and alcoholism. Charlotte, the heroine of her popul …Read more