Sometimes less is more, and in One Christmas Carol at The Chain Theatre, less is much more. Adapted from Charles Dickens’ classic by Douglas H. Baker, and performed by him in multiple states for 14 years, this truly stripped down production forgoes t …Read more

Playwright, director, and actor Sara Fellini’s work has been described by the New York Times as “darkly humorous, deliciously ghoulish.” spit&vigor, of which Fellini is the artistic director, has produced gothic-style pieces like The Wake of Dorc …Read more

John Patrick Shanley’s new play Candlelight is sort of like West Side Story–but with 10-year-olds, Jim Henson-esque demons, and a scantily clad fairy. Directed by Lori Kee, Candlelight, a Nuyorican fairytale set in Brooklyn, receives its world premi …Read more

Anyone who’s a fan of the Oxford comma has my approval, but even if Faith Salie hadn’t mentioned this in her delightful show Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same name, her whip-smart jokes, engaging presence, and achingly beautiful turn o …Read more

José Rodriguez fell in love with horror stories at a young age. Now, he’s presenting Metanoia, a collection of short horror-themed plays, at Jersey City Theater Center on November 14. Metanoia comes out of JCTC’s Producer’s Lab, a program that suppor …Read more

As live, in-person theatre returns to the greatest city in the world, we’re spotlighting the NYC theatre artists who make it all happen. Today’s spotlight is on Kate Cortesi, Brenda Withers, and Emily Zemba—three playwrights producing their own plays …Read more

He did warn us. When his family asks him for a ghost story, Arthur Kipps declines, on the grounds that the story he has to tell is not the type of entertaining thriller they want to hear. It’s dark, upsetting, evil. And yet, determined to finally mov …Read more

“This play is hard to watch as a socialist.” Said the young man sitting next to me at Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band: a play about the Khmer Rouge regime. That performance seems ages ago now; it was the last I saw before the theatre shutdown. But I …Read more

For whatever reason, there seems to be an upsurge in absurdist theatre lately. Maybe it’s because the last two years felt like a badly scripted Beckett play. At any rate, the newest is Randy Sharp’s Worlds Fair Inn, presented by Axis Theatre Company. …Read more

In a convertible car, speakers blaring, a woman is breastfeeding her baby when she hears someone make a derogatory comment. Enraged, she gets up and launches into an impassioned speech about the right of women to breastfeed in public. She’s furious t …Read more