Tuesday, February 9, 2016
RECOMMENDED It’s hard to say anything about anything especially if you’re trying to say something without offending anyone. Taking aim at the media machine that filters out crazy…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMSunday, February 7, 2016
RECOMMENDED A junk shop: an assemblage of bric-a-brac, objects not all broken but beyond their first use—typewriters, two-headed ceramic aliens and toasters as well as other kitsch and fix…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMRECOMMENDED There are two words that can make almost any regular theatergoer flinch: audience participation. The irony is unmistakable. In an art form that lives and dies on vulnerability, o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
RECOMMENDED Obese. Plus size. Thick. Heavy. Big boned. Curvy. Overweight. Fat. These are some of the politer words applied to people with bodies that don’t fit into our culture’s…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
The late Horton Foote’s “The Old Friends” is a play about people getting what they want. Whether jewels, booze or attention, any deprivation is fleeting. As a criticism of the privileg…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Waking up and turning on the news, we see the outrage over police killings and state terrorism of the black population. We do not see the mass media addressing the more insidious ways system…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED As this sprightly new musical opens, Arthur Conan Doyle has just committed what his myriad readers see as the ultimate crime: killing off iconic super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes. “…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 29, 2016
If you ever wondered what “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” would look like as a Greek tragedy, this is your chance to find out. Set in post-housing bubble collapse California, Dan …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
There were times during the world premiere of “Another Word for Beauty” that I had to remind myself where I was. Literally, not in the transcendent sense. This stilted and suffocatingly…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMSunday, January 24, 2016
Despite levying criticisms at both sides of the capitalist/socialist divide, Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play “The Hairy Ape” teems with Marxist zeal. One wonders what O’Neill’s a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED For some people it’s about control. For others, simple pleasure. Many find it a chore though they’d rather not admit it. But we all do it. Even Republicans. Especially Republ…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMSaturday, January 23, 2016
It is high time we put the expression “boys will be boys” to bed. Those still needing good reason to retire this persistent slogan of blatantly gendered rationalization need look no …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMFriday, January 22, 2016
RECOMMENDED There has perhaps never been an artist better capable of expressing the eternal contradictions of hope and oppression than Nina Simone. From the deceptive jaunt of “Mississippi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, January 21, 2016
By David Witter Richard Cotovsky is known as “The Godfather of Storefront Theater.” It’s a well-deserved title. For the last thirty years, the artistic director of the Mary-Arrchie…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:31AMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Much of Griffin Theatre Company’s “London Wall” works quite well: a story of female connection in the male-dominated workspaces of the West End, a sentimental heart and the fie…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMRECOMMENDED Rajiv Joseph’s 2008 play, splendidly revived by Shattered Globe Theatre, manages to make compelling theater out of origami, transforming the ancient Japanese art of paper-foldi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED If you adore the satirical trivialities in Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” you’re sure to enjoy Shane Sakhrani’s nod to the master …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMMonday, January 18, 2016
RECOMMENDED Pearl Cleage’s “What I Learned In Paris” is about revolution, but not the political kind you might imagine. Maynard Jackson has just won the historical 1973 election making…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a small town in America must be in possession of repressed women in want of entrepreneurial men to sweep them off their Hush Puppies-clad feet and…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMSunday, January 17, 2016
RECOMMENDED A good rule of thumb for one person plays: start with a joke. It reassures the audience that they are not in for a lot of solipsistic drivel. Being the drama critic at The Wall S…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMRECOMMENDED Evan Linder’s world premiere “Byhalia, Mississippi” (opening simultaneously in three additional cities) presents the titled town as an easy going, slow drawl kind of place…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED Touching on a number of perennially sensitive subjects (welfare, incarceration, urban education) and drawing links between racism, misogyny and consumerism, Kirsten Greenidge’s…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, January 14, 2016
RECOMMENDED Sex sells and the more of it the better for the bottom line. This is as true in movies as it is for literature with books like “Fifty Shades of Grey” dominating the romance a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMMonday, January 11, 2016
The dead-child drama has become a genre unto itself. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, admittedly an odd thing to say about a category of theater focused on untimely death. Neverthe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED First there’s the slow-burn, Ry Cooder-esque slide guitar. Then there’s the invocation of the sun’s ceaseless effrontery. All at once, everything turns the color of the dev…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
RECOMMENDED Currently in its twenty-ninth iteration, Pegasus Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival serves as an important bridge between the creative curiosity of adolescence and a healthy…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, December 29, 2015
RECOMMENDED The trial run of a musical comedy on its way to Broadway is probably not the first place you’d expect to find an exploration of systematic disempowerment. Reasonably so, given…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 23, 2015
RECOMMENDED Over a decade ago, former BBC Television hosts Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner condensed the Harry Potter universe into a five minute street show. A short time later, they e…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMFriday, December 18, 2015
RECOMMENDED Public safety announcement: baritones are endangered! Or maybe you, yourself, are a baritone and already knew that baritones have been relegated to revival shows as their contem…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 17, 2015
RECOMMENDED Bruce Norris’ “Domesticated,” now playing at Steppenwolf, paints a grim future for the battle of the sexes, one void of any reconciliation beyond disdainful to…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMTop 5 Dramas of 2015 “Moby Dick,” Lookingglass Theatre Company “Marjorie Prime,” Writers Theatre “Brilliant Adventures,” Steep Theatre Company “How The World Began,” Riven…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:52AM 
