In a city full of ninety-minute plays with no intermission, this writer welcomes the return of the six-hour production. If youʼre the type to enjoy spending your Saturday night in the theater and nowhere else, Target Marginʼs latest production at Abr …Read more
When Broadway star Karen Mason says she has a big voice, it’s not an understatement. Mason has received much critical acclaim for her performances in Broadway musicals like Wonderland, Mamma Mia!, and Sunset Boulevard. She’s also a highly successful …Read more
The hilarious Tori Scott is back at Joe’s Pub with Plan B!, an autobiographical show in which the storyteller with the pipes of gold will use songs by Madonna, Judy Garland, Heart, and more, to illustrate pivotal moments from her life. Scott is the k …Read more
Larry Kirwan’s new play, Rebel in the Soul, directed by Charlotte Moore, looks at Dr. Noël Browne’s health reform mission, which ultimately brought down the First Inter-Party Government in Ireland. Browne intended to rid Ireland of tuberculosis, the …Read more
For creatures boasting complexity with regards to reasoning, emotional intelligence, and empathy, we sure live by an oversimplified set of binaries and social constructs. While the notion of being joined hand in hand as runners in the human race is l …Read more
Every director and stage manager knows only too well how many things can go wrong with any given performance. Hopefully, though, no stage manager has ever experienced a production as utterly catastrophic as The Play That Goes Wrong. This new Broadway …Read more
In her new play, The Antipodes, at Signature Theatre, Annie Baker once again uses the trappings of naturalism to tell a contemporary story that veers at times into the realm of magical realism. Clocking in at about two hours, this intermission-less p …Read more
It takes some guts to rewrite what is possibly the most revered play of all time: Hamlet. Even when Tom Stoppard played around with Shakespeare’s masterpiece in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he didn’t mess with the original dialogue, but bui …Read more
All you 80s and 90s babies surely remember the classics of those times. Nintendo, old school Jordans, acid wash denim…those were the good old days. Feel like throwing it back? Step into Mr. Throwback; it’s definitely not your average vintage store. …Read more
Now through its new, extended close of July 2, the Manhattan Theatre Club mounts the fifth Broadway production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. In the decades since the 1939 debut, the family drama has been ada …Read more