Most people today (myself included) have an absence of ritual in their lives, and never is this more apparent than at this time of year–when Catholics worship in specifically orchestrated ways almost every day of the week and Jews observes a 3000-ye …Read more

Return the Moon, Third Rail Projects’ hypnotic, poetic Zoom piece, has extended through October 24. Live via Zoom, Return the Moon is conceived and directed by Zach Morris and created by Alberto Denis, Kristin Dwyer, Joshua Gonzales, Sean Hagerty, Ju …Read more

There’s a lot of real estate in Manhattan, but have you ever thought about the real estate six feet under? The Extremely Grey Line, a 23.5° Tilt Production, takes exactly that angle. On a walking tour of Greenwich Village, an “unrealtor” shows you so …Read more

As you approach the stairs leading up to the immersive production of The Dead, 1904 — directed by Ciaran O’Reilly at the American Irish Historical Society — you’re met by Lily, the house-maid, suitably “run off her feet,” as in the opening words of …Read more

Ingredients 1 Direction by Erin Mee 1 Choreography by Jonathan Matthews 1 Historic location (Cornelia Street Café) 1 Open mind 2 Glasses of wine (red or white) 7 Fearless actors 18 Scenes by Erin Mee, Jessie Bear, Colin Waitt, Jenny Lyn Bader Several …Read more

Pop music is often judged and misunderstood for its lack of substance and depth, as if catchiness and joy were any less important than the depictions of pain and loss explored in other musical genres. It appears that the creatives behind KPOP (concei …Read more

This is Real is a scary, heart-pounding experience that starts as soon as you approach the warehouse where it begins deep in Red Hook.  When you arrive, you’re given a waiver to sign followed by a one-page description of what will happen to you once …Read more

The dualities that exist within women and art are explored in A Ribbon About A Bomb, written by a team of 10 playwrights, created and directed by Tess Howsam, and currently playing in an abandoned Colonels Row house on Governors Island. Exquisite Cor …Read more

More than fifty years ago, a young couple living in Manhattan’s Upper West Side gave America one of its first looks at life controlled by heroin addiction – a sad reality that would only make more mainstream appearances as the problem claimed more vi …Read more

In the last year or so, Drunk Shakespeare has gone from that thing that some weird intellectual people like to a New York institution. What is it? Here’s what their website says: “Each night in New York, one professional actor has at least five shots …Read more