When his two guardians ship eleven-year-old Edgar Allan off to boarding school, he couldn’t be happier. It’s a chance to sharpen his skills and gain an unparalleled education. Most importantly, it presents him with a whole new playing field to …Read more
The tortured history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is transmitted through Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula’s Sur Les Traces De Dinozard (In Search of Dinozord) at NYU Skirball. As part of the French Institute Alliance Française ( …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
Welcome to Sam’s Tea Shack, a bazaar to house Sam Soghor’s comedy routine/heart break — and a theatrical experience straight out of 1980s New York City. The work is a rumbling therapy session that covers religion and culture and Sam’s young son and …Read more
Missing the New York International Fringe Festival this year? Hungry for great off-off Broadway theatre? No worries, The Arctic Group at the IRT Theatre has plenty of food for thought at NY Fridge Fest, with ten playwrights, five different programs o …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
Florence Foster Jenkins, speaking of her struggle to be an accomplished artist, once observed that although some people said she couldn’t sing, they could never say she didn’t sing. It’s a moment of dignity and tragedy and accomplishment all in a mom …Read more
Guilty, by Icelandic playwright Hrafnhildur Hagalín, featuring as part of Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival and directed by August Strindberg Rep founder Robert Greer, is a one hour courtroom memory play written in non-rhyming verse (trans …Read more
No need to fear checking out this new musical. THML Theatre’s production of Kit Goldstein Grant’s Where Angels Fear to Tread presents E.M. Forster’s novel in an entertaining emotional extravaganza. Directed by Kayla Friend, the musical begins with th …Read more
Founded in 1976, Spiderwoman Theater is the longest-running Native theatre company, with the mission to present exceptional theatre performance and to offer theater training and education rooted in an urban Indigenous performance practice. The compan …Read more
