In Henry James’ 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, a man named John Marcher fails to connect with a woman who cares for him. Marcher has a premonition that something horrible will befall him in life, and when that “beast in the jungle” inevitably …Read more

What it’s about: Set in San Francisco in 1986, the musical centers around Harry (Adam Heller), an amiable but lonely retired kosher butcher, who enrolls in a writing class taught by Barbara (Julia Knitel), a young lesbian writing teacher, at the seni …Read more

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