Cherchez La Femme is accurately described in its program as “a musical excuse”, which is fair because that’s exactly what it is. Kid Creole himself, August Darnell, in collaboration with Vivien Goldman, created the book for a musical that revolves en …Read more

Before the filmed versions of their Broadway successes The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers pulled the Marx Brothers into Hollywood immortality, there was their 1924 Broadway debut, I’ll Say She Is. The show—which had played on the road for 18 months be …Read more

Off-Broadway theater has always been about experimenting. Why not, then, turn an Off-Broadway stage into your old high school science lab? Why not, indeed. Especially with a teacher like Dave Maiullo, a charismatic and committed science geek who take …Read more

Put a great Greek myth together with an awesome genre-spanning score plus a superb cast and you get the downtown hit Hadestown, written by the versatile singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and playing at New York Theatre Workshop.  Hadestown is a unique …Read more

The power dynamics of marriage have never tasted so bitter. With Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and August Strindberg’s The Father playing in repertory at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, two Scandinavian playwrights hold a mirror up to the institutio …Read more

Even though Malika (Anyanwu) was born female, she only felt she was herself until she became Messiah (Tanisha Thompson) a DJ and aspiring rapper who happens to be male. Now Malika has to face a world that rejects Messiah, but soon will discover that …Read more

If John Doyle is well known for his minimalist productions, then his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is downright molecular. He distilled the Norwegian playwright’s massive five act epic, into a mere two hours of surrealism, proto-naturalism, …Read more

Les Covert (Rob Maitner) must have spent a lot of time watching Alfred Hitchock’s Rear Window, because his MO is straight out of the 1954 classic. He dedicates his free time – of which he seems to have a lot – staring from his modest window apartment …Read more

Welcome to the dark and mysterious world of the Edgar Allan Poe Festival. Now playing at St John’s Sanctuary, which has been transformed into an eerie underground crypt, complete with candle light, skulls, fog, and ominous sounds that send tingles up …Read more

It’s time to party like it’s 2003 in Taylor Mac’s OKAY, a subversively brilliant production by the folks at UglyRhino, under the direction of Danny Sharron. The play takes place entirely in the girls’ restroom of an unidentified high school, where ug …Read more