Lamia, a new dance theater piece currently on at the New York International Fringe Festival, is an intensely theatrical piece, bringing together live music, dance, and grand storytelling to weave its mythical tale. Though Lamia revels in theatrical p …Read more
This year marks the 10th anniversary of 59E59 Theaters’ Summer Shorts series, bite-size bits of theater for the warm weather that year after year prove to be every bit as provocative, touching and funny as their full length counterparts, thanks in la …Read more
Two women with wildly different temperaments and life experiences are compellingly brought together in Finnish playwright Minna Nurmelin’s sharp and perceptive tragicomedy Remember Me, presented by the Scandinavian American Theater Company as part of …Read more
Theatre fans have a marvelous opportunity to experience a highly unusual musical from Japan currently running at The Flamboyan Theatre at The Clemente as part of The 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival. The Legend of Oni is a theatrica …Read more
Two porn stars: one male, one female, discuss what goes on behind the scenes in one of the world’s most controversial industries. With its lurid title and premise, The Fucking Problem, should have no trouble getting butts in seats, what might surpris …Read more
Alice Austen (1866-1952), the fascinating subject of Alice in Black and White currently playing at 59E59 Theaters, was a woman ahead of her time. Born during an era and in a society when there were not many options for women besides becoming a wife a …Read more
The Gold sounds like the kind of thing Oscar dreams are made of: it has boxing, decades-spanning melodrama and Nazis, but what’s remarkable is that despite all of these elements it’s a rather sophisticated piece of storytelling that goes beyond being …Read more
“It’s tiresome acting like something you’ve never been” says Abraham (Adrian Blake Enscoe) to Angelina (Elizabeth A. Davis), and even though he’s making a personal confession in the hopes of finally becoming free, he might as well have been talking a …Read more
Just like its extremely long title, The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute’s FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, and Pot Luck Dinner, turns out to be a little too much. The show is set in an evangelical church in Nashville where service is p …Read more
The National Theatre of Ireland, Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, has a history that, other than a bit of infamous seat-tearing, was instrumental in the country’s vast political changes in the first quarter of the 20th century. In its newest transatlantic off …Read more
