Primary Stages presents Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home, a trio of one-act plays that tell the stories of three women who reminisce on the same hometown of Harrison. Set in Houston in the 1920s, the first scene follows Mabel (Hallie Foote) and her n …Read more
Living in New York, we pass by hundreds of people a day, the crowd so ubiquitous that we almost don’t notice them (unless of course they’re standing directly in our way). With her one-woman show Such Nice Shoes, Christine Renee Miller delves into New …Read more
Royce Vavrek, one of the hottest librettists on the contemporary opera/music theater scene today, and Ricky Ian Gordon, a masterful composer and melodic genius, are a powerful duo in their new opera, 27, having a semi-staged production for two nights …Read more
“They said it wasn’t like this anymore.” So observes the protagonist of Theresa Rebeck’s play What We’re Up Against as the endless misogyny of her workplace prevents her from utilizing her formidable talents. With this timely and deeply relevant prod …Read more
In a society focused on thinness as one of the defining qualities of beauty, women often have complicated and thorny relationships with food. The different ways that frustration can be expressed is the focus of comedian Lisa Lampanelli’s new play Stu …Read more
Have you ever wondered about all the minor characters in the Harry Potter series? Where do they come from? What are their abilities? Why is everyone so focused on the Gryffindors? PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Mag …Read more
Before Jonathan Larson penned one of the greatest American musicals, Rent, he wrote a much smaller, autobiographical musical called Tick, Tick… BOOM! While nowhere near the scale and excitement of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Rent, Tic …Read more
What if George Orwell, hot off the success of Animal Farm, partook in a book tour across post World War II America? In Orwell in America, now playing at 59E59 Theaters, Orwell is chaperoned throughout the United States by a young woman publicist whos …Read more
The Taming of Cats is a whodunit tinged with darkness and the supernatural that manages to be a bit funny at the same time. The show opens on a disturbing scene: Catherine (Kim Gainer) runs into her apartment soaked in blood, with no idea what has ha …Read more
It is impossible to leave Hans, My Hermaphroditic Hedgehog without a smile on your face. Terence Diamond’s writing and Jz Sinanovic’s direction truly shine in this fun show, presented by Wow Cafe Theatre and Concrete Theatre. It is a wild ride that i …Read more
