There is no more satisfying way to get your spook on during Halloween season than the award-winning RadioTheatre’s annual festival of works by HP Lovecraft, which was held at Kraine Theater in the East Village. Being an audience member at a live perf …Read more
The Ma-Yi Theater Company’s Among the Dead has officially raised the bar for all theater productions. I write this review knowing there are not enough words to do justice to playwright Hansol Jung’s masterpiece. The writing, the direction (by Ma-Yi A …Read more
Comprised of two separate plays with the central theme of Hurricane Katrina, Lost Voices shows the human level of the ravages of ever-present climate change. Each of the plays has a cast of three, and the set from the first play is deconstructed to m …Read more
If you are familiar with Company XIV, you may be surprised (and humored) to find the company performing Paris in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church — you may even feel you’re in the wrong place. Inside, however, is the Irondale Theater, an old …Read more
With the presidential election just around the corner, William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus hits especially close to home. Red Bull Theater’s current production, which has been expertly executed by director Michael Sexton, features an all-star cast, tell …Read more
The Gallery Players’ The 39 Steps is like really entertaining clockwork. The talents of the cast and the production team combine to keep this fast-paced comic whodunit moving without a hitch. In fact, some of the funny moments of the cast “breaking c …Read more
According to José Antonio Méndez’s famous bolero glory awaits mortals in heaven, but for those of us lucky enough to be alive and kicking, La Gloria can be found at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Subtitled as “a Latin cabaret”, this two-h …Read more
The Other Mozart is astounding from start to finish, with one actor, one set and a trove of history and humor that tells the story of Nannerl Mozart, the oft-forgotten elder sister of world-famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Visually stunning a …Read more
If you don’t have a child, find one. And if that fails, go to Harlem Repertory Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz anyway. No one will judge you. This stupendous stage production based on MGM’s classic motion picture is a glorious delight. The story moves alo …Read more
Feminist theory has a long and complicated history, one that playwright Gina Gionfriddo grapples with directly in her play Rapture, Blister, Burn. Gionfridd tackles the movement’s primary tenets and grapples with a complicated question: how can women …Read more