129 stories by "ANDY WEBSTER"
"The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos" is a musical satire with everything but zombies. Wait, it's got them, too.
In "As Wide as I Can See" by Mark Snyder, friends work through their history in an Ohio town.
In "The Navigator," a play by Eddie Antar, Joseph Franchini is tethered to his car, but he is not alone.
A musical spoof of 1970s Irwin Allen films, "Disaster!" also draws heavily from that decade's deep well of corny pop tunes.
In "History of the World," Judith Malina's new play at the Living Theater, the audience is taken on a dizzying flight through the course of Western civilization.
"Bunny Lake Is Missing," adapted from a 1957 mystery, portrays a woman desperately searching for her 3-year-old daughter.
In Clifford Streit's "Him," a gay actor's manager works hard to keep him in the closet.
The one-man show "Mad Women" at the Club at La MaMa finds John Fleck reflecting on his childhood.
Foul-mouthed grit and working-class angst are the prevailing moods in two taut solo shows at this year's Brits Off Broadway series.
In "__ Done Broke," at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, D. J. Mendel plays a drunk who ruefully recalls better days.
Randall Colburn's "Verse Chorus Verse," at the Cherry Lane Studio Theater, is a bitter valentine to the legacy of grunge.
The Hoi Polloi theater company remakes "Shadows," the 1959 film by John Cassavetes, for the stage.
"Cheerful Insanity" is a repertory production of two confessional plays, "Callous Cad" by Tom X. Chao and "Penetrating the Space" by Kim Katzberg.
There isn't much at the center of "Winner Take All (A Rock Opera)," but there's a lot surrounding it, all delightful.
"Le Gourmand, or Gluttony!" is a fanciful operetta about the 18th- and 19th-century food critic Grimod de la Reyniere, from the troupe 3 Sticks.
Ali Kennedy-Scott is a whirlwind, an irrepressible bundle of energy, spine and spirit, in her one-woman show.
Mark Sam Rosenthal toggles between two personas in his one-man Fringe Festival show. "I Light Up My Life."
Black Moon Theater Company's production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome," at the Flea Theater, teeters between severe modernism and Wilde's verbal flourishes.
"The Play About My Dad," by Boo Killebrew, deals with Hurricane Katrina and people in her hometown, Gulfport, Miss.
Liza Fernandez and José Joaquin Perez star in a stormy play about former lovers, written by Maggie Bofill and Lou Moreno.
"Wax Wings" addresses conflicts between faith and rationality; the drive to reproduce and the impulse to resist; and the merits of expediency and caution in a crisis.
The crew behind a reality show try to control their own harried lives in the play "Cut."
A revival of "Winter Wedding" at Theater for the New City spotlights the mad satire of Hanoch Levin.
Kimberly Faye Greenberg offers an earthier version of the legendary Funny Girl in "One Night With Fanny Brice."
Joanna Tope is a proud but wounded teacher in "The Promise," by Douglas Maxwell.
