Dickie Beau’s work is as personally spiritual as it is rigorous and inventive, as intimate as it is interesting, and his limited run at Abrons — part of the Crossing the Line Festival — was a must-see for those enveloped in the performance matrix as …Read more

Whiskey Pants: The Mayor Williamsburg, a new musical directed and composed by Christian De Gre, is a remarkably silly new work, now up at the HERE Arts Center. And while some of the silliness leaves something to be desired, a lot of it is at the beat …Read more

Emmy Award-winning Letterman writer Ted Greenberg takes us back to December 18, 1987 in his taxi cab — a pivotal moment in the young Harvard student’s life. It’s the nine-year anniversary of his overdue paper on Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. I …Read more

For those who were weaned on Jackie Gleason’s sitcom The Honeymooners, there’s cause to rejoice. There’s a new musical based upon the 1950s classic characters, directed by award-winning John Rando (Urinetown, On The Town) premiering at The Paper Mill …Read more

We probably don’t need another reminder right now that a compact brain, the miracle of fire, and a few lines of iambic pentameter are pretty much all that separate us from our prehistoric ancestors. But here comes one anyway: Boundless Theatre Compan …Read more

Why is it so hard to create a successful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? That was the question I pondered as I watched Eric B. Sirota’s new Frankenstein musical, directed by Clint Hromsco at St. Luke’s Theatre. And as far as Frankenstein a …Read more

If you leave Tiny Beautiful Things, which opened last night at The Public’s Newman Theater, without having wept along with the rest of the audience for at least a few moments, you make up the small minority. In a time when large-scale horrors seem to …Read more

Blood Boundary, a play set in 1920s Oklahoma right before the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, depicts a family with Cherokee roots but different skin tones, and what that means to themselves and each other, and their safety, as they move around an ever-unsafe …Read more

“What’s it gonna be then, eh?” Well well well, one scenario could be a Hi-NRG music video featuring the dancing droogs. Another, the once seen never forgotten Pacino movie Cruising. Such associations spring to mind while watching Liverpudlian directo …Read more

In this day and age, writing a musical in rhyming iambic pentameter is a little gutsy. To pull it off, you’re going to need a good playwright and a darn good cast. Happily, The York Theatre Company has both of those, and as a result, their Shakespear …Read more