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

All too often, kids’ entertainment means that, while the little ones have a great time, parents are abandoned to hour-long series of boredom. Not so at the New Victory Theatre. With Mr. Popper’s Penguins, director Emma Earle presents fun that actuall …Read more

Inspired by the solo storytelling in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, PREMIERES’ Artistic Director Paulette Haupt was curious to see how the one person show would transform if music were added to the words. And into existence came Inner Voices, which is …Read more

Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt are magnificent in Manhattan Theatre Club’s funny and surprising two-hander Heisenberg, now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Written by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) an …Read more

Magic lives inside the space of a theatre. Or in CIrque du Soleil’s case, inside the space of their circus tent. Like electricity, magic is always in the air. Just as Nikola Tesla knew how to harness the electricity that invisibly hovers the earth, K …Read more

Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You is not an especially good play, in fact it can be rather trite at times, its central “issue” is so dated, that one wonders if having it be an issue at all is part of one of the playwright’s perverse jokes, …Read more