In 2016’s 1st Irish Festival, Nancy Manocherian’s The Cell raised the splintering roof with Honor Molloy’s Crackskull Row, a one-act play soaked to the bone with rough and tumble memories that will not rest. Crackskull’s Moorigan family may be fractu …Read more

Aimée Marcoux-Spurlock has had a varied career in news and entertainment. As a reporter and producer for Reuters Television, Showtime, the BBC, NBC and Fox, she covered many stories including the 9/11 attacks. She interviewed celebrities including Si …Read more

Those looking for clear narrative arcs and thematic structures will find the impressionistic Tell Hector I Miss Him, playing at Atlantic Theatre Company’s Second Stage, difficult. The meandering work tracks the lives of several Puerto Ricans, using b …Read more

In a welcome, too-rare, and too-brief return to New York cabaret, the Portland (OR)-based Rebecca Kilgore proved anew that sometimes just singing the song more or less how it was written or previously sung by others can be quite enough, even for a ja …Read more

Showbiz mavens of a certain age will likely chortle nonstop during “Lee Squared,” the show created by David Maiocco and Chuck Sweeney and currently playing at the Metropolitan Room. The pair portray, respectively, Liberace and Peggy Lee, in what can …Read more

Watching The Band’s Visit, a new musical at Atlantic Theater Company is like being drawn into the periphery of an intimate story and becoming a part of each small moment as it unfolds.  The musical is based on Erin Kolirin’s screenplay for the award- …Read more