1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
Genet's "The Maids" is reconceived with a little help from the professionals " professional housekeepers, that is " at Abrons Arts Center.
Benjamin Kunkel's "Buzz" follows a playwright and his girlfriend in their South Brooklyn apartment.
Old Sound Room, a company built by recent Yale School of Drama grads, has adapted spooky yarns plucked from Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things."
American Airlines theatre, New YorkThe shows stars give complex and endearing performances, but this is an emotionally distant revival of Tom Stoppards heart-wrenching play Continue reading.…
In "The Dreary Coast," an immersive theatrical work from Jeff Stark, Hades, king of the underworld, sits enthroned on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.
Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musicalAfter suffering 10 years of writer's block, …
Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musical Continue reading...
Lyceum theatre, New YorkA posse of TV talent tackles a Pulitzer prize-winning drama that asks difficult questions of religion, assimilation and individuality Continue reading...
James Dickey's 1970 novel, "Deliverance," has been given the theatrical treatment by the Godlight Theater Company.
Kimber Lee's "brownsville song (b-side for tray)," at the Claire Tow Theater, explores a teenager's death.
"Inner Voices" consists of two solo musicals: one about an artist whose friend is dying of AIDS in the next room, and the other about a famous writer in the process of going blind.
Mark Dendy, a Broadway choreographer, structures his autobiographical piece "Labryinth" around the myth of Theseus, combining confession with dance, video and songs.
Not even Nathan Lane and a slew of vulgar jokes can save this play about plays from Terrence McNallys sour scriptF Murray Abraham: I am afraid of nothing on stage Continue reading...
The Assembly's "That Poor Dream" is an expressive, uneven update of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations."
"The Killing of Sister George," a 1964 black comedy, features a radio actress whose personality is at odds with her sweet on-air character.
Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkAlex Sharp delivers a star turn in an amped-up staging of Mark Haddons bestselling novel Continue reading...
The Bushwick Starr, a dingy, elegant but strangely welcoming performance space in Brooklyn, has become a bright spot on the Off Off Broadway map.
Films of different genres and eras run through "Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature," presented by Big Dance Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Scott Elliss revival of the 1936 play, starring James Earl Jones, will melt the hardest hearts with its strange central family Continue reading...
Self-effacing in person, Romola Garai, making her New York theater debut in Tom Stoppard's "Indian Ink," is drawn to strong-willed characters on the stage and screen.
In "A Sucker Emcee," Craig Grant, known as muMs, recounts his ups and downs in rhymed couplets while a D.J. plays hip-hop.
In "riverrun," a solo show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Olwen Fouéré plays the character who personifies the River Liffey in "Finnegans Wake."
Everetts shtick is a little samey, but theres something deeply gratifying about a woman celebrating her appetite for sex and rocknroll Continue reading...
A houseful of immigrant women, three of whom work the same, numbing factory job, are at the center of "To the Bone," a play by Lisa Ramirez at the Cherry Lane Theater.
In "Ndebele Funeral," at 59E59 Theaters, a woman afflicted with AIDS prepares to die in a South Africa beset by bleak realities.
