Up-and-coming English actress Jade Anouka, who plays Ariel in the Donmar Warehouse’s acclaimed production of The Tempest at St. Ann’s Warehouse, graciously allowed me to chat with her on her day off. The Tempest is the finale of Phyllida Lloyd’s magn …Read more

Starring in Fault Line Theatre’s production of Bekah Brunsetter’s new play The Oregon Trail, the wonderful Liba Vaynberg brings the show’s humor to life with her portrayal of “now Jane,” a ’90s middle schooler with an overbearing older sister (Laura …Read more

How heartbreaking that on World Holocaust Day 2017, a play about the suffering of Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust seems more relevant than ever. As the new administration has taken on the task of banning refugees and making the lives of non-white …Read more

Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett’s Albatross, a one-man play, is a multi-media extension of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In it we find the poem’s titular seaman talking to us in our modern time and expounding his ta …Read more

Do you love superheroes? Are you first in line for every big midnight premiere? Can you track your childhood using the releases of the Batman movies as major life moments? If so, The Dork Knight might just be the play for you. In a hilarious celebrat …Read more

For a long time, I’ve been obsessed with J.D. Salinger. In high school, Catcher in the Rye was one of my favorite novels, one that encapsulated the alienation that is so common in high school. Later in life, I read all of Salinger’s work, his daughte …Read more

The luminous Cate Blanchett gives a grand performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Broadway transplant, The Present, an adaptation of the Anton Chekhov play Platonov. In fact, the entire cast, a true ensemble, gives top-notch performances in the s …Read more

Everyone says that your life changes when you have kids, and DANNYKRISDONNAVERONICA takes those changes to heart, examining the many ways that children and parenthood impact not only the individual but the marriage. In a refreshing look at contempora …Read more

You can tell Saulo García has years of experience in comedy for the way in which he reads a room. At the first performance of his show Sin wifi también se vive at Repertorio Español (through January 8th) it was as if he wanted to make sure each and e …Read more

I tend to turn my nose up at physical humor, making it all the tastier to eat my words at Theater for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center’s production of The Servant of Two Masters, which proved that a text from the 18th century can go …Read more