Sarah Gancher is an exciting theater writer who has worked around the country and around the world. She is a frequent collaborator with many of the most interesting theater makers of all dots and stripes working today, and she joined forces with The …Read more

There’s a bewitching sense of history in the magical inner workings of A Regular Little Houdini, playing now at 59E59 Theaters. Daniel Llewelyn-Williams has created an entrancing tale out of a historically dark time in the history of South Wales, wit …Read more

Ever since Hamilton we’ve been asking ourselves what goes in “the room where it happens.” Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses gives us a brutal, rollicking peek. The story, as told by Peter Galperin (concept, music, lyrics and book) and Daniel Scot …Read more

As any Elf aficionado can tell you, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear… and no one knows that statement to be true more than multitalented tour actor Christopher Russo. He may play the grouchy, Grinchy Walter Hob …Read more

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will has been called Shakespeare’s perfect play. In the same spirit, I’d call Fiasco Theater’s production of Twelfth Night (directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld at Classic Stage Company) a perfect staging of a perfect p …Read more

Perched in the back row of Classic Stage Company’s (CSC) bare brick wall theater a couple hours before a preview performance I speak with Jessie Austrian, actress, director and one third of Fiasco Theater’s co-artistic director triumvirate. Fiasco Th …Read more

If you mourned the closing of Jersey Boys after its 11-year run on Broadway earlier this year, you’ll be pleased to learn that the boys from Jersey are back in New York City — this time in a more intimate setting Off-Broadway at New World Stages. We …Read more

Writers thrive on stories. It doesn’t usually matter whether they are true or not. The consumer of the story is supposed to enjoy it either way. But what if a story, or even the threat of a story, could get you in trouble? Describe the Night, an epic …Read more

The incredible story of a slave turned cowboy comes to life in Cross That River, a musical composed by jazz artist Allan Harris, with a book by Mr. Harris and Pat Harris, and directed by Regge Life. The show, performed concert-style at 59E59 Theaters …Read more

The truth hurts as they say and the devastating verbatim play De Novo, which is the inaugural production at New York Theatre Workshop’s newly renovated Fourth Street Theater, had me tearing up a bit — actually, quite a lot. Fashioned from court tran …Read more