Haram! Iran! is an emotional roller coaster well worth the ride. Based on a true story, the play by Jay Paul Deratany depicts the trial and conviction of two teenagers when they make a genuine connection with each other after being assigned as study …Read more

The Gallery Players’ rendition of Sweet Bird of Youth is all the beautiful raw tragedy at the heart of Tennessee Williams’ works, which is perhaps the greatest gift an audience can get. Under the flawless direction of Jesse Marchese, these actors del …Read more

Judas Iscariot is one of history’s greatest ciphers: no one seems to know what to make of him, and the Biblical portrait of the infamous traitor leaves many questions unanswered. In The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis pro …Read more

In what turned out to be a double-treat at La MaMa on March 2, the Grusomheten Teater company made its North American debut with their production of Henrik Ibsen’s unfinished romantic opera libretto from 1859 called Fjeldfuglen (The Mountain Bird). B …Read more

What our world needs now is light, hope, and pure bliss, and Broadway’s Trent Armand Kendall has answered the call with his new musical, LOUIS-AND-ELLA! The musical reunites jazz legends Louis Armstrong (Trent Armand Kendall) and Ella Fitzgerald (NaT …Read more

When stories and histories get passed down, what details get left behind? How we tell stories — and what gets left out — sits at the heart of the ephemera trilogy, a visual piece written and performed by Kimi Maeda that forces us to think about what …Read more

It’s strange to realize a play that for the most part takes place in 19th century Dominican Republic, feels eerily appropriate for our times, and yet that’s precisely what happens in En el nombre de Salomé. Based on Julia Alvarez’s eponymous fictiona …Read more

Thank goodness for nonprofit theatre company Girl Be Heard for prominently featuring difficult but important topics in their shows. Their brand of devised theatre is an antidote to society’s complete ignorance of the kinds of issues that negatively a …Read more

HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry Program in New York City presents the debut tour of Chilean company Silencio Blanco, who are bringing their show Chiflón, el silencio del carbón to American audiences. The company is known for their exquisitely simple pupp …Read more

History is being rewritten from the point of view of the slaves who shaped it. The Department of Fools presents A History of Servitude, a series of vignettes performed in the style of commedia dell’arte, a type of street theatre developed during the …Read more