Manual Cinema’s Lula Del Ray is a strange and lovely dream, full of a far-off eerie sadness and sweet mystery, like some kind of apocalyptic lullaby. As delicate as a radio tuned just right to pick up distant 2 A.M. airwaves, the story pours forth in …Read more

If there’s one thing I regret about Confucius at Lincoln Center, it’s by the time this review will come out, the New York run will likely be over. This dance drama presented by the China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG), tells the story of the leg …Read more

For more than 100 years, the public has had a fascination with femme fatale Mata Hari, an exotic dancer, professional paramour and perhaps a double agent for both France and Germany during World War I.  There is the iconic 1931 movie starring Greta G …Read more

Whether you live in the city, or you’re just in town to catch a show, the joys of the MTA are ones we all share and love. Or hate, depending on the day, and how much train traffic is holding up your car. It’s those shared subway moments that In Trans …Read more

Although the title The First Noel implies that this musical is a Christmas story, in many ways it isn’t. Rather it leans heavily on the drama, against a backdrop of spectacular music, songs and visual feasts. Set in Harlem in 1985, The First Noel, pe …Read more

Who better to bring a bunch of fuzzy creatures to life than Broadway’s best and brightest? In Broadway Sings The Muppet Christmas Carol, director and co-producer Katherine M. Carter, along with choreographer Jesse Robb, music director Neil Douglas Re …Read more

There’s a time and a place for Serious Theater, ponderous and esoteric… and then there’s time for the kind of ecstatic, transportive experience that Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 serves up on a gilded platter with a vodka chaser. Dave M …Read more

I tend to turn my nose up at physical humor, making it all the tastier to eat my words at Theater for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center’s production of The Servant of Two Masters, which proved that a text from the 18th century can go …Read more

It doesn’t feel like too much of a stretch to say that everyone who did drama in high school found themselves in a production of Our Town at some point in their budding acting career (unless of course you did The Crucible instead). That’s certainly t …Read more

Remember those I Spy books with the photographic picture riddles full of miniatures and myriad objects imaginatively arrayed? There was often a surreal quality to these primarily visual books; a feeling of browsing through the freely associated token …Read more