Edward Albee first wrote The Zoo Story in 1959, but feeling it could use a little more substance (particularly regarding one of the characters, Peter), decided to add on Homelife as the first act…about fifty years later. The “complete” play, Peter …Read more
The title of the new play by James Inverne at The Cherry Lane Theatre is misleading. A Walk With Mr. Heifetz sounds like a play focused upon the famous Russian-born Jewish violinist. Yet it is really about Yehuda Sharett, an Israeli composer-musici …Read more
Beloved screen icon Hayley Mills, of The Parent Trap and Pollyanna fame, is back on the New York stage with Party Face, a female driven comedy by Isobel Mahon, in which Mills plays Carmel, the not-always-very-nice mother of Mollie Mae (Gina Costigan) …Read more
Award-winning British actress Melody Grove has been a bit of a New Yorker lately — first with the downtown hit The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (The National Theater of Scotland) and currently as Isabella Farnese, Queen of Spain in Farinelli an …Read more
Broadway’s Ben Fankhauser (Newsies, Spring Awakening, Beautiful) returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below this February for an evening of Broadway and pop hits – all Fanked up! Ben and the Fank 5, with the musical direction of Charlie Rosen, will mix up the c …Read more
What it’s about: Adapted from the groundbreaking novel by John Akada, the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s No-No Boy follows draft resister Ichiro Yamada as he returns to Seattle following his release from prison. The adaptation depicts Ichiro’s search …Read more
Lillias White is a theatrical treasure. The The Life Tony winner and OG Once on This Island standout, whose array of stage and screen credits range from Chicago to How to Succeed… to an Emmy-winning turn on Sesame Street, has established herself as …Read more
I have mixed feelings about solo shows, so I wasn’t sure what to expect from Karen Jones Meadows’ one woman show Harriet’s Return (written and performed by Meadows under the direction of Clinton Turner Davis). But once the show got going, I just foun …Read more
Director Gus Kaikkonon and the Mint Theater’s production of Hindle Wakes, written by Stanley Houghton, is both authentic to the 1912 original and speaks to issues of our time — a perfect work for a company dedicated to remounting and introducing “fo …Read more
British playwright Stanley Houghton’s Hindle Wakes (currently at the Mint Theater Company) was written and first performed in the era when Sigmund Freud’s ideas on sexuality were becoming known, and when the question of women’s suffrage was on people …Read more