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

“Organic Shrapnel,” a new play by Charles Cissel, is about the loss we carry with us after a devastating event. It explores the lives of three sons as they cycle through death, war, and one girlfriend (yes, one). One brother joins a war to escape the …Read more

There’s something commendable about what Lauren Brickman, Raquel Powell and Britney Masari set out to do with their new play, “Hair of the Dog.” The three friends, who are both the writers and the stars of their one-act, have created a comedy with th …Read more

The Renaissance Faire — a way for people to time travel with the DeLorean — has long been the domain of the outcast. It allows you to enter a fantasy world where women still wear bodices and men carry swords. It offers up such amusements as skits a …Read more

Let’s not call this a “play”, because it only marginally meets that criteria. “Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man”, written by Matt Murphy and directed by Tim Drucker, is part improv, part cabaret, part silliness — and mostly just a night of …Read more

‘Transport’ is the latest presentation from New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre. Written by renowned Irish author Thomas Keneally, this new musical tells the story of four impoverished Irish women traveling as convicts from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, Au …Read more