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
Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 novella The Birds put a petrified chill to an atmosphere that was enhanced by Hitchcock’s film adaptation 11 years later. Conor McPherson’s 2009 stage adaptation concentrates less on the plot-driven grisliness of the novella …Read more
The man with whom I share my Lyft ride on the way to Ford’s Theatre tells me and the driver about a former high school classmate he was very fond of, whom he lost contact with years before. One day he saw one of his Facebook friend’s pictures at the …Read more
Playwright J. B. Heaps does theater the old-fashioned way: from the heart. He takes a subject that inspires him, builds a world for it and then shares it with others. From the inception of his idea to the moment he is greeting his audience at the the …Read more
Whenever there’s a group of six or more female characters onstage, they’re either making Guido Contini’s life impossible, or trying to be good wives for their barn-raising, lumberjack husbands, which is why Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, with its all-fe …Read more
The lead characters in Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette are what millennials would refer to as “hot messes”, they are young, single women trapped in the limbo between responsibility and hedonism. Headland’s gift is that she doesn’t push them into choos …Read more