Everyone says that your life changes when you have kids, and DANNYKRISDONNAVERONICA takes those changes to heart, examining the many ways that children and parenthood impact not only the individual but the marriage. In a refreshing look at contempora …Read more

Montreal-based performer Dana Michel’s latest solo piece, Mercurial George, may partly take its name from the Curious George series, but the artist’s curiosity takes her audience further than a storybook ever could. Many of us could pore over a box o …Read more

“Has there ever been such a wondrous and spectacular public execution?” asks Joshua Crouch, the perverse emcee in anatomy theater, the new opera by David Lang and Marc Dion which traces a woman’s afterlife, from her execution to her dissection. As pl …Read more

Manual Cinema’s Lula Del Ray is a strange and lovely dream, full of a far-off eerie sadness and sweet mystery, like some kind of apocalyptic lullaby. As delicate as a radio tuned just right to pick up distant 2 A.M. airwaves, the story pours forth in …Read more

If there’s one thing I regret about Confucius at Lincoln Center, it’s by the time this review will come out, the New York run will likely be over. This dance drama presented by the China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG), tells the story of the leg …Read more

For more than 100 years, the public has had a fascination with femme fatale Mata Hari, an exotic dancer, professional paramour and perhaps a double agent for both France and Germany during World War I.  There is the iconic 1931 movie starring Greta G …Read more

Whether you live in the city, or you’re just in town to catch a show, the joys of the MTA are ones we all share and love. Or hate, depending on the day, and how much train traffic is holding up your car. It’s those shared subway moments that In Trans …Read more

Composer Missy Mazzoli creates some of the most immersive soundscapes in contemporary opera, her layered work not only helps create the psychology of her characters, but also challenges the form by making it modern, and also hauntingly timeless. In B …Read more

You can tell Saulo García has years of experience in comedy for the way in which he reads a room. At the first performance of his show Sin wifi también se vive at Repertorio Español (through January 8th) it was as if he wanted to make sure each and e …Read more

Although the title The First Noel implies that this musical is a Christmas story, in many ways it isn’t. Rather it leans heavily on the drama, against a backdrop of spectacular music, songs and visual feasts. Set in Harlem in 1985, The First Noel, pe …Read more