Watching The Band’s Visit, a new musical at Atlantic Theater Company is like being drawn into the periphery of an intimate story and becoming a part of each small moment as it unfolds.  The musical is based on Erin Kolirin’s screenplay for the award- …Read more

In Ride the Cyclone, six Canadian teenagers board a roller coaster — and only one makes it out alive. The question of which teen ultimately escapes this tragic fate is at the center of this witty new musical, which is now playing at the Lucille Lorte …Read more

Eugene O’Neill’s enthusiasm for that which flowed, be it the sea upon which he spent his early adulthood, or the drink that diluted the top and bottom generations of his family, propped up the arcs of many of his plays. In his Pulitzer Prize winning …Read more

There are myriad ways to tell stories, but a voice in the dark has a proximate visceral effect. Listening becomes heightened while the eyes follow the trace of – in this case – intimate recollections including stories passed on through networks of bl …Read more

Heartbreaking tales of teenage angst have long been popular in every storytelling medium, and they’re in no danger of disappearing soon. That only makes sense. If you can’t identify with youthful characters that feel lost, confused and defeated, you’ …Read more

There’s something missing in the salmon-colored living room of Pete (Mark Blum) and Mary (Mare Winningham), somewhere in the American sunbelt. And it’s not just the old sneakers that Pete may or may not have accidentally stuffed beneath the big secti …Read more

Joey Merlo’s The Witch of St. Elmora Street centers on Michelangelo (Chris Dunlop) and his twin sister, Graziella (Caitlin Zoz), and it is introduced by a talking tomato plant invested with the spirit of their father, an Italian immigrant who credits …Read more

No matter how high your expectations are for Isaac Mizrahi’s conception of Prokofiev’s classic Peter & The Wolf, they will be exceeded, and you will be delighted. Set in New York, Mizrahi’s Peter & the Wolf tells of how young Peter, against h …Read more

Holy cow, run, don’t walk, to the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street to see Mother Africa: My Home. This “circus spectacular” production has been brought back to New York by the Circus der Sinne group from South Africa and features performers from al …Read more

Moving down Christopher Street toward the New Ohio Theater with my partner, our moods lifted as we watched young people scurry excitedly into Stonewall. For those who fall somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, Christopher Street is more than a place to gr …Read more