1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
"The Essential Straight & Narrow," a play by the Mad Ones, is about creating art and how people are pulled back to vital moments in their lives.
Lena Hall and Lauren Worsham are in their 30s, are up for the same Tony and on dark nights, each sings with a rock band.
In William Burke's "the food was terrible," at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, the discussion in a bar revolves around people who died and the services for them.
The monologuist Edgar Oliver takes a walk in Prospect Park, and in his past, in "In the Park," running at Axis Theater.
Gardner McKay's "Sea Marks" asks whether a lonely Irish fisherman can find happiness in the big city (Liverpool) with a worldly young woman who loves his blarney.
"The Fabulous Miss Marie," a 1971 play revived by Woodie King Jr., features a former showgirl married to a parking valet, and a prodigious amount of drinking.
"Playing With Grown Ups," part of Brits Off Broadway, puts a couple under a microscope.
Nick Cordero, who has been nominated for a Tony for his gangster role in "Bullets Over Broadway," talks about cruise ship antics and pink socks.
"Dutchman," the incendiary 1964 play by LeRoi Jones that delves into incendiary racial politics, is revived at the National Black Theater.
"Cherry Smoke," staged by the Working Theater company, describes the hard lives and limited options facing a boxer and his girlfriend in western Pennsylvania.
"Family Play (1979 to Present)" loosely tracks the lives of its three playwrights.
Employing myth and hip-hop, Marcus Gardley's "The Box: A Black Comedy" looks at the life of the incarcerated.
In "Four Last Things," by Lisa Tierney-Keogh, a young woman feels trapped on a farm in Ireland.
O'Neill wasn't known for his comedies, but the New York Neo-Futurists can play his work for laughs in "The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Volume 2."
It's Tony nomination time, but from egg-eating to bowlers and transvestites, here are this year's true Broadway achievementsIts the close of another Broadway season, which means we have anot…
"Address Unknown" is a stage adaptation of a book about two German friends who exchange letters in the early days of Hitler's reign.
At first, "Holy Land" suggests how ordinary people might make sense of life under the duress of armed conflict, but then the story becomes buried in symbolism and violence.
Belasco theatre, New YorkThe Doogie Howser star dons kinky boots for a revival of the libidinous musical about an East German 'girly boy' rocker In pictures: Hedwig's journey from fringe hit…
A conversation with Amber Gray about terrifying musicals, biracial identity and playing a difficult scene.
Belasco theatre, New YorkThe Doogie Howser star dons kinky boots for a revival of the libidinous musical about an East German 'girly boy' rockerPlays based on philosophical symposia don't co…
Gertrude Stein's "The World Is Round," a 1930s children's book about a girl named Rose, is brought to life by the Ripe Time ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"The Mysteries," a five-and-a-half hour event at the Flea Theater, uses dozens of actors and writers to condense and perform the Bible.
"Our God's Brother," a 1949 play written by Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II, is being revived at the Theater of the Church of Notre Dame.
Charles Ludlam's two-actor gothic farce, "The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful," is back in a production from Red Bull Theater, directed by one of the play's original stars.
A conversation with the playwrights Catherine Trieschmann and Eric Coble.
