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

Now playing at the Clurman Theater at Theatre Row, Fallen Angels Theater Company’s revival of Sharman Macdonald’s 1984 play When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout explores teenage sexuality, the fissures in communication between generations, an …Read more

Fresh off its three week run of playing to audiences in prisons, hospitals, schools and libraries, the Public’s Mobile Unit returns home for its spring production of Romeo and Juliet. In keeping up with Joseph Papp’s original vision of offering theat …Read more

I tend to forget that Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 comedy The School for Scandal isn’t a verse play. Except for its prologue and epilogue, it is prose. But the rhythms of Sheridan’s comic vernacular have a bright, lyrical quality. Not for nothing …Read more

Two young women from Ipswitch, England embark on separate yet similar adventures. They journey halfway around the world to marry dedicated soldiers engaged in righteous conflicts, and in so doing they assume new and dramatically different lives. But …Read more

Waitress is a musical about the legacy of women. Jenna (Jessie Mueller) learned how to bake pies by watching her late mother come up with special concoctions to commemorate special times in her life. From heartbreak to joy, Jenna’s mother had a pie f …Read more

New York has the rare quality of being a city where everything seems to be constantly changing, and also a place where things remain immovable. From the corner bodegas and cafes that are here one day and gone the next, to the towering skyscrapers tha …Read more

In Not I, the first of the evening’s three Beckett shorts at NYU’s Skirball Center, Lisa Dwan is blindfolded and strapped to a wooden board in almost complete darkness. But we cannot see this. The only thing illuminated in the entire theater is her m …Read more