Thursday, December 4, 2025
By Jose SolÃs. Since 2020, the BIPOC Critics Lab has trained dozens of emerging critics in craft of criticism.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
As she sought the truth for her characters on the page, Mara Vélez Meléndez's real self began to emerge. Now she's making her Off Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2022
Artistic Director Manuel Liñán on breaking new ground in a traditional form.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The composer's "Oratorio for Living Things," forced to shut down because of the pandemic, returns to the Ars Nova stage in Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Back in Honduras for the first time in a decade, a critic finds hopefulness in a city's cultural ferment " including an energetic theater troupe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
Site-specific set pieces by Bated Breath Theatre transform New York's West Village into Montmartre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2020
"Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)," an En Garde Arts production, invites audiences to experience a musical gathering popular among immigrants, this one under the threat of a raid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
On a set that transforms the Bushwick Starr into a cave beneath a tree, Jillian Walker tells a story of her family, and of blackness in America, that aches with hope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2020
Monday, February 3, 2020
In this dystopian satire, "American Idol" and "60 Minutes" still reign, the White House is in Cleveland and a pair of writers compete to save the world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2019
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Video projections help set the mood for an admirable adaptation of the Brazilian writer's fragmented novel about a woman chafing against society's restrictions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2019
Monday, November 25, 2019
This art form, which stems from a classic genre of protest song, gets a new spin in a musical by Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
"I'm running 10 minutes late, can you leave my ticket at the box office?" Who hasn't received the exact same text message while waiting for their companions in New York City? I chuckled, sig…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Presenting a version of Junot DÃaz's prizewinning novel, Repertorio Español is also showing off a confident cohort of Latino actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Resetting the Italian drama on an unnamed Caribbean island, Repertorio Español allows two rich performers to shine in a twisty romance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2019
Sure, it's a tragedy, but along the way this Classical Theater of Harlem production is a riot of music and dance, with a Dionysus worthy of Jimi Hendrix.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2019
A boy, his best friend and an unseen bully negotiate fear and fantasy in an imaginary wrestling ring, with the audience encouraged to cheer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
"I'm happy. My cancer bring everyone together," exclaims a joyful Masako (Ako) as she lays in her hospital bed surrounded by her husband James (Jay Patterson), and their daughters Sophie (Em…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The Brooklyn of Geraldine Inoa's Scraps is one filled with ghosts.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Art dealing with natural disasters tends to focus on the phenomenon itself and the ways in which it affects the characters in the story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Among all of Shakespeare's works, Measure for Measure stands out for being one of the most difficult to stage in modern days.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
David Ives' recent plays, a series of "rediscovered" gems of French theatre, translated into English and done in verse, feel like the stage equivalent of a thrilling Jenga game.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:30PM[SHARE] 
