Evening-1910, a new musical at the Axis Theater, poetically intertwines moments of New York history from the turn of the last century with softly drawn portraits of characters seeking their dreams and discovering their paths have many bends and curve …Read more

Pioneering American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, who rose to prominence during the 1940s and dominated the airwaves in the 1950s, has become a storied figure in the decades since his 1965 death. With his brooding eyes, deep and authoritativ …Read more

In the Secret Sea, now playing at Theatre Row, is centered around a sensitive decision: whether or not to abort a fetus suffering from an incurable degenerative disease. Needless to say it stirred up the emotions and moral opinions of every audience …Read more

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