Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping is about an emotional wilderness rather than a literal one. Across 25 years, two women remain caught in a cycle of love, denial, and recrimination, returning again and again to a childhood tent that somehow proves spa …Read more

On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at night in order to watch five plays by the actor and playwrig …Read more

  Camping is the most I’ve ever cried during a play that’s set outdoors. Based on the title, I thought the show might have something to do with nature – you know, the wonderment of seeing the stars in the firmament, all that hippie-dippie, woods …Read more

Relationships make people crazy, and sometimes, in order to get your sanity back, you have to do something a little crazy yourself. To quote Lena Dunham from her recently released memoir: “Reader, sometimes you see two doors in life, one marked NORMA …Read more

You might think it’s impossible to turn a melodrama about young women, struggling with mental illness in a psychiatric facility, into musical theater. Well, yes and no. Girl, Interrupted, a musical adaptation of the 1999 film, starring now at the Pub …Read more

There are several different levels of writerly craft on display in New Born, a program of three monologues at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theater. Weirdly, they were all written by the same person, British playwright Ella Hickson. The monologues are perfo …Read more

Photo by Julieta Cervantes When TV’s Murphy Brown was mocking singer Barry Manilow, I was buying his albums and attending his concerts. I was unabashedly a Fanilow. So I looked forward to “Harmony,” the musical that Manilow wrote with Barry Sussman, …Read more

A viewer should be prepared for intense theater when attending a Eugene O’Neill play. If the show is “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” she should be ready for a lengthy assault on her emotions. The original show ran close to four hours and had three i …Read more

Only Stephen Sondheim could have taken a motley group of would-be murderers and made them sympathetic and funny. At one time, a musical about killing presidents would have been controversial or startling. Certainly that was the case 30 years ago when …Read more

It felt strange to be attending a show last Saturday night instead of sitting in front of the television waiting for SNL to begin. Fortunately, the play was “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe” and the star was Cecily Strong, on …Read more