There may be a certain advantage to incorporating film into a staged play. It can make it more cinematic, perhaps broaden the story a bit, and may offer a bit more perspective. However, in the case of Dangerous Ground’s experimental multimedia play ” …Read more

Somewhere in this convoluted twist of dissonance, glorious choral notes and witty lines; there is a story. Albeit inchoate, Eliza Bent and Dave Malloy’s “Blue Wizard / Black Wizard” possesses the beginning of a thought. Or a question. Or an answer. I …Read more

If you have ever idly wondered about the outlandish events that could occur within the confines of a New York City bar on a regular basis, this show brings those random thoughts to fruition. On The Rocks, in its third successful month of new sketches …Read more

This weekend, Everyday Inferno Theatre Company presented “If On A Winter’s Night…”, an evening of one act plays to warm you with laughter and contemplation on a chilly New York night. Like the eponymous Italo Calvino novel to which the evening’s titl …Read more

We’ve all been struck at one point in our lives: struck with fear, struck with awe, struck by Cupid’s arrow. We understand each meaning, the emotions elicited from within us.  But when one is struck with stroke, how should we react?  In a nonfiction …Read more

Magneto.  Professor Xavier.  Gandalf The Grey.  Captain Jean-Luc Picard.  Richard III.  King Claudius.  These are just a few of the colorful, dynamic roles that Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have played throughout their storied careers.  Now …Read more

terraNOVA Collective has produced a heart-wrenching drama, “Animals Commit Suicide”, by playwright J. Julian Christopher.  This play takes a leap in American Theater by revealing a subculture not too frequently talked about: it intimately shadows a m …Read more

“Death for Sydney Black” is a darkly funny, satirical send-up of every pop culture trope involving high school cheerleaders, the pretty “ugly” girl makeover, and the quirky, geeky sidekick, all told through a series of fairytale metaphors including S …Read more

When I read that “Disaster!” was a musical with 1970s songs and starring theater greats such as Mary Testa and Seth Rudetsky, I was very excited to see it — and this fun high-energy show met and surpassed all my expectations.  I highly recommend it. …Read more

Three days of improvisational performances by Derrick Adams came as the bookend to a conference called Get Ready for The Marvelous, organized by Performa’s Associate Curator Adrienne Edwards on the topic of black surrealism. The notion that surrealis …Read more