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

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