Tulis McCall’s one-woman show Are You Serious? — A Woman of a Certain Age Inquires is one of those rare gems you come across in theatre. Her show is a 50-minute look at the inevitable passing of time and how she found herself unprepared to be a woma …Read more

Recent Cutbacks has paid homage to Jurassic Park (Hold On To Your Butts) and The Lord of the Rings (Fly, You Fools!) with their parody remakes. But they have reached the pinnacle of exclamation point ’90s pop culture with their latest, KEVIN!!!!!, a …Read more

Watching Luke Comer’s multimedia rock odyssey The Portal is kind of like being on someone else’s acid trip, but you wish you were also on drugs. It takes you on one man’s spiritual journey through the desert where he is followed at various times by a …Read more

All of the characters in Alligator are lost. Not geographically, but emotionally, each of them simply wandering the Earth hoping to collide against someone who will steer them towards the right path, or at least the one more livable. Twin siblings Ty …Read more

Some might say that Nobel Prize winning London playwright Harold Pinter has a lot to answer for with regard to the shift in modern theater, where class, jeopardy and laden pauses continue to stamp the stage beyond his lifetime. Only he didn’t, wouldn …Read more

In the opening scene of Michael Harren’s The Animal Show, the solo performer describes his veganism as a pair of “rose-colored glasses.” The animals he services at the Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary (where he was a resident artist) do not celebrate …Read more

Magician Helder Guimarães is the youngest winner of the prestigious World Championship of Closeup Card Magic. He was awarded this trophy in Stockholm in 2006 by performing a routine so impossible that magicians are still talking about it. He went on …Read more

With Sutton Foster at its center, the New Group’s revival of Sweet Charity melds the many emotions of a story about a big-hearted and naïve young girl trapped in a miserable reality. Set in the ’60s, Sweet Charity, as the title might imply, follows C …Read more

Some time between the coleslaw and the dancing gnomes I decided it was a fool’s errand to try to overthink Now Is The Time. Now Is The Best Time. Now Is The Best Time Of Your Life., the latest “junk spectacular” (their words) by Brooklyn based theate …Read more

When the characters in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead speak, what comes out is a jumble of words: lyrical, emotional, tautological. A man in overalls sits with a watermelon in his lap. Where d …Read more