In the story of “Macbeth”, the King is out in battle when he receives the news: “The Queen, my lord, is dead.” Anais Koivisto, the director of “Something Wicked”, picks us up from the edge of the seats where Shakespeare leaves us, and provides insigh …Read more
If you shoved “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, and “Fatal Attraction” into an atom smasher, the result might come out looking something like Erin Mallon’s new play, “Branched”, now playing at the HERE Arts Center. New Age yuppies Tamara …Read more
“Art is the thrilling spark that beats death – that’s all.” Brett Whiteley With lamentations over the deaths of the Amato and the City Opera fading, LoftOpera has come along at just the right time. In its sterling production of Puccini’s “La Boheme”, …Read more
Plays tend to fall into two general categories: those where the characters change or grow and those where the characters’ past is revealed, allowing us to see why they are as they are. “Dying City” by Christopher Shinn (nominated for a Pulitzer for d …Read more
Playwright Monica Bauer has a way with words. And she’s a natural-born story teller. And she can act. And she’s funny. All of these talents come together beautifully in her one-woman show “The Year I Was Gifted”. This hour-long piece of autobiog …Read more
One summer when I worked at an arts school, a woman named Mary Susan Slawter would call the admin office and leave longwinded voicemails, sometimes three or more in a row, always between the hours of midnight and 2am. She puzzled my colleagues and m …Read more
“If You Can Get To Buffalo”, a cleverly splashy and quirky multimedia play, is a personal reflection loosely based on real events. The time was 1994, and the place was both nowhere and everywhere: a new world we now call the internet. This is a stor …Read more
More than 50 million people have bought copies of Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel, “The Bridges of Madison County.” How many people will come to see a musical version of the material? Broadway is about to find out with the arrival of composer Jason …Read more
“Eating My Garbage”, an hour-long monologue written and performed by David Mogolov and directed by Steve Kleinedler, has all the elements that make off-Broadway theater worth going to: great material, great direction and great performance. David Mog …Read more
If there are any newbies in the entire production of “Til Divorce Do Us Part”, they sure know how to hide it; this cast of seasoned theater professionals transcends the ordinary levels of performance in musical theatre. Ruthe Ponturo’s musical follow …Read more
