Shakespeare’s Othello gets the Jewish treatment in an adaptation by actor-director David Serero, featuring both traditional Judeo-Arabic music and some of Verdi’s operatic score. The production — presented by the American Sephardi Federation, an org …Read more

For nearly two full decades, The Metropolitan Playhouse on West 4th Street has been dedicating itself to the legacy of American theater – in all its various incarnations. Per its own website, the company “explores America’s theatrical heritage to ill …Read more

Part of the “Planet Connections Theatre Festivity”, How to Succeed as an Ethically Ambiguous Actor is a one-woman show, performed by Zenobia Shroff. We follow her journey from India to the USA and her struggles with cultural differences. In the begin …Read more

Eric Overmyer’s 1985 play On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning—revived by The Attic Theater Company at Walkerspace—follows three intrepid explorers from 1888, bushwhacking their way through Terra Incognita and turning up more than they bargained …Read more

There is something unequivocally old fashioned about Israel Horovitz’s Out of the Mouths of Babes, and there is nothing entirely wrong with that. The comedy plays out like the kind of farces that once upon a time were such huge hits on Broadway, that …Read more

Like a haunted house, or carnival attraction set up by children, there is a unique sense of innocent wonder lurking around every corner of Brooke O’Harra’s I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: A Living History Tour (at La MaMa from June 16-26, 2016). Par …Read more

The Golden Smile, written by Yaakov Bressler and directed by Joey Stamp, is one of the many new works featured throughout the Planet Connection Theatre Festivity, a festival dedicated to socially conscious theater, art and music. Bressler has created …Read more

Lights up on two smiling musicians perched in the corner and an older man, presumably a frustrated writer, sitting with his head in his hands before a computer. As the audience shuffles in, we see the writer we come to know as Katzen (Kenneth Talbert …Read more

On June 17th, the Greenhouse Ensemble presented an elegant soiree of eight original short plays, complete with live music and original art work on display. These evenings are produced several times a year at the Franciscan Community Center, with Arti …Read more

Playwright Mac Rogers and director Jordana Williams have found their Vitruvian man in the actor Jason Howard. In their The Honeycomb Trilogy, he played the astronaut whom bug-like aliens decided to “possess” in order to spread their message to humans …Read more