If you’re a fan of British theater and want to enjoy some fine acting, then you may want to help yourself to a slice of Toast. Now playing at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadway season, this quirky play by Richard Bean tells the amusing …Read more

Among the more enjoyable productions I’ve seen in New York in recent years have been stripped-down versions of classic and new works directed by Austin Pendleton. Among them was a highly satisfying 2013 take on Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré (for th …Read more

Last time Victoria Clark and Kelli O’Hara shared the stage they played mother and daughter in Adam Guettel’s gorgeous The Light in the Piazza; more than a decade later they are portraying mortal enemies in City Center’s production of Henry Purcell an …Read more

In a rural village in Vietnam lives a young woman named Thao who is a little different. One of many victims of the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange, a deadly chemical used for wiping out wide swaths of jungle in Vietnam in the 1970s to smoke out t …Read more

Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night is considered by many to be the absolute finest American play of all time; as such, it provides actors with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to portray characters that secure their legacy in the pantheon …Read more

When life hands you lemons, Heather Litteer makes lemonade – and she knows just how you like it! This Southern belle-gone-bad isn’t really a hooker, but she plays one on TV, and Lemonade, her memorable one-woman show at La MaMa, is sure to quench you …Read more

I don’t know what will stay with me longer: Bill Bowers’ story about disapproving Amish children who had no idea what a mime was, or his tale about his stint at a nudist resort, or the one about the time he got “screwed” by a famous hooker. Bowers ha …Read more

Described as a Latin Cirque du Soleil, the contemporary circus troupe Circo de la Luna is deserving of a longer run and a wider audience. At their brief run at Baruch Performing Arts Center, April 20-22, people of all ages were blown away by the magn …Read more

Currently onstage at Soho Rep for its U.S. Premiere, Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. could perhaps be best described as exposure therapy — an uncomfortable, infuriating and brilliant indictment of a patriarchal world that has always po …Read more

To begin with, the Girl (Aoife Duffin) is barely formed. Her body is still, her face pallid in scant light. But the signs are clear, the life ahead of her will not be easy. Her language stops and starts, it pulls and pushes those around her whom we m …Read more