This is Real is a scary, heart-pounding experience that starts as soon as you approach the warehouse where it begins deep in Red Hook.  When you arrive, you’re given a waiver to sign followed by a one-page description of what will happen to you once …Read more

Shakespeare’s comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona lends itself well to piracy, and director Ariel Leigh picks up on the hint in her swashbuckling production at The Brick. For my tastes, the play could have used even more piracy, but as it is, I’ll tak …Read more

The Bard, done right, is a bonafide good time, and a good time is had at Simon Godwin’s production of Measure for Measure at Theater for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center. Hey, if you can’t depend on a satisfying evening from a Shakespeare …Read more

What a difference a space makes, in the case of The Cooping Theory: Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe? the space is the refurbished speakeasy under St. Mazie Bar & Supper Club, where Poseidon Theatre Company’s immersive supernatural experience takes pla …Read more

BAMcinemaFest is Brooklyn’s annual showcase of festival indie darlings and premieres. Giving New York City audiences their first chance at catching standout films from top festivals like Sundance and South by Southwest, it provides a sprawling and va …Read more

Enda Walsh wants to mess with your mood swings by creating non-linear, atmospheric works for you to interpret. It is entirely up to you what you make of it. Walsh will not hold himself responsible. The emphasis, or so it seems, is on how it makes you …Read more

Tony nominee Max Von Essen will lead the company of The Dreyfus Affair at BAM from April 27-May 7. The play by Eve Wolf chronicles the saga of Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer who was wrongfully imprisoned in the late 19th century when he w …Read more

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another.” So said Robert F. Ken …Read more

Ragtime, I hope they stay in business for 50 more years. Ragtime (by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens) traces the lives of various characters in turn-of-the-century New York. These include an upper-class family, a poor Jewish immig …Read more

Traditions bind a family together, but they can also tear generations apart. The Charleses, currently playing at the Brick Theater, explores the generational frictions and commonalities in father-son relationships. We talked to Meghan Finn about her …Read more