It is hard to put a finger on exactly why Termination Productions’ version of “The Seagull” by Anton Chekov directed by Richard Haymes-Esposito at the June Havoc Theater is so disturbing. This staging of the play is very uneven and choppy. The perf …Read more
“Obedient Steel” is a surreal and campy romp, now playing at the HERE Arts Center. Both highly entertaining and highly disconcerting, the play focuses on a group of scientists who are developing an atomic bomb. It is less about those who would feel …Read more
Paula Vogel, author of the Pulitzer-winning play “How I Learned to Drive”, wrote “The Baltimore Waltz” following the death of her brother, Carl, from complications due to AIDS in 1988. Upon its premiere Off-Broadway in 1992, it won an Obie for Best …Read more
The Daughter (of Indra, Hindu god of war and thunderstorms) decides to check out The Humanity Thing, and rides a cloud down to earth — not to India, as one might expect, but to a circa 1900 industrialized northern Europe, where the air is nasty (pol …Read more
“Andy@62”, a deeply personal and voyeuristic theatrical experience, might offer new insights into four icons: Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe, and Marlene Dietrich. However, that is not really the point of this part-play, part-tour exhibitin …Read more
“Fix Me, Jesus” is a show about a woman in crisis. In Abingdon Theatre Company’s latest outing, Annabell Armstrong (Polly Lee) is a rising star in the Texas Democratic Party, although her personal life seems to be falling to bits. Where else would a …Read more
“Ain’t Nothing Sentimental About a Revolution.” –Sunset Baby “Sunset Baby” begins quietly. Baldheaded and creamy voiced, Kenyatta (Tony Award-nominee John Earl Jelks), a former political prisoner and member of the Black Liberation Movement, stare …Read more
Fans of Shakespeare and Renaissance historians alike will delight in the work that The Baited Bear Players have undertaken with “The Merry Wives of Windsor”. Not only do they present the bard’s comedy in an impeccably staged adaptation, they have mas …Read more
“Ashé” is hands down one of the best plays this season. UP Theater Company brings this top notch play, directed by the richly talented David Mendizábal and written by recent NYU graduate Ricardo Pérez González, to the neighborhood of Washington Heigh …Read more
Theater for the New City presents The Cell’s production of a new work by a promising playwright Amina Henry entitled “An American Family Takes a Lover”. This dark comedy can easily be compared with the likes of Isben’s “A Doll’s House”. In her mind …Read more
