We’ve all heard about saying something with flowers, but “say it with soup” is a rather unique form of expression. Yet this is what Ray (Tim Kang), reluctantly, figures out will be the best way to communicate decades of unsaid things to his dying fat …Read more
A new production of The Black Crook (at the Abrons Arts Center) marks the 150th anniversary of the premiere of a work that has been dubbed (erroneously, some say) America’s first musical. The show is largely unknown now, but throughout the late 19th …Read more
A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney, born in Salford in the northwest of England, wrote her first play when she was just 18. In the late 1950s, Delaney’s gender and class amounted to a great sum of odds that were against her. Nevertheless, A …Read more
The two women are dressed in white, the older one sits still, as the younger one stands close to her and begins applying makeup on her face. They are surrounded by coffins that fill the air with a pervasive eeriness, and yet the two women can’t help …Read more
The Irish Arts Center’s How to Keep an Alien is a laugh-a-minute kind of show. In this one-woman romantic comedy, presented as part of Origin’s 1st Irish theater festival, love must be proven through endless paperwork, collectable moments kept in a b …Read more
To enter Taryn Simon’s monumental installation, An Occupation of Loss, currently on view at the Park Avenue Armory, the audience must climb an outdoor staircase to arrive on the mezzanine level, where they can gaze down at an eerie constellation of 4 …Read more
Alzheimer’s patients require a special sort of tenderness. The smallest of daily rituals beg the boundless encouragement, patience, and love of the caregiver. Blossom, the story of an aging painter in the last seasons of his life, paints the plight o …Read more
Taylor Mac’s ambitious A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is set to culminate at St. Ann’s Warehouse with an epic 24-hour-long performance starting on October 8, but those without the stamina, or caffeine tolerance to stay up for so long can take t …Read more
Based on the never ending number of Shakespearean revivals every year, one might think that staging a production of a Shakespeare play was a rather easy thing to do. Of course we all know that nothing could be further from the truth. With the complex …Read more
The premise sells itself: a musical based on Craigslist ads. It’s a clever idea that promises a humorous look at what people look for behind the shield of anonymity. And for the most part, Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone deliver as p …Read more
