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

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