229 stories by "Erin Kahn"
In hindsight, a show about a group of friends in NYC slowly breaking up may not have been the best thing for me to watch just a couple weeks before moving away from the city. I left David Ro…
I'm a sucker for a good ghost story. When that ghost story happens to include gorgeous folk harmonies, graceful black box intimacy, and an elusive yet inescapable meaning, consider me sold. …
It's no secret that many of the fairytales we know and love today are pretty sexist. Take Sleeping Beauty or Little Red Riding Hood: helpless heroines who need men to save them. In other sto…
A world devastated by pollution and climate change. A soulless corporation with mindless employees. A girl from the outside with dangerous ideas. Welcome to In Corpo: a new musical by Ben Be…
How far would you go to secure a date for high school prom? For Madison, Stella, and Grace"three high school seniors who have dreamed of this moment their entire lives"the answer is a resoun…
Alan Freed didn't invent Rock & Roll"in fact, he wasn't even the first to call it that. What he did, which was arguably more challenging and more important, was to make it mainstream. Be…
From its inception four years ago at The Kraine Theater, New Ambassadors Theatre Company's Blurring Boundaries"comprising a lineup of short one-act plays written, performed, and directed by …
Magician Steve Cuiffo has a problem: his wife hates magic. He doesn't know it's a problem until his friend Lucas Hnath (the playwright behind Broadway's radical Dana H.) asks him to creat…
Having seen (read "been positively blown away by") several of Edward Einhorn's previous shows produced through Untitled Theater Company No. 61, and being a long-time lover of Shakespeare,…
Kelli O'Hara, as everyone knows, is a gift to the world of theatre. Her voice is otherworldly, her acting immaculate. Now, she can add to her resume the triumph of largely carrying Days of W…
Ironically, though New York City is home to more than 8 million people, it's been called "the lonely city," and it's easy to see why. You could easily pass hundreds of people on your morning…
Shakespeare is canceled. Don't ask why"he just is. It might have something to do with the tremors that keep jarring the college diversity office, or then again, it might not. We'll never rea…
I've seen my fair share of plays about racism, but I've never seen the struggle between a facist government and its oppressed citizens dramatized as a puppet show. In We, Puppets, presented …
In the 1967 film version of Camelot (a movie I adore), there comes a moment when Arthur senses that the presence of his illegitimate son, Mordred, together with the forbidden passion s…
Émilie du Châtelet was playing around with physics more than a century before Einstein entered the scene. Her analysis of force and velocity, which she articulated as F = mv², woul…
Most people today (myself included) have an absence of ritual in their lives, and never is this more apparent than at this time of year"when Catholics worship in specifically orchestrated wa…
Dance can be a powerful vehicle for storytelling, for expressing emotion, and for conveying truths that are sometimes difficult to articulate in words. If you need proof, go see J. Chen Proj…
What kind of person can laugh amid the jaws of hell? One who knows his survival depends on it. In Cabaret in Captivity, we become those imprisoned in the Terezin Camp as, in commemoration"no…
Identity is a tricky, complicated thing. That was the main idea I pondered as I left the theatre after Karl O'Brian Williams' The Black That I Am: a pastiche of monologues, scenes, and movem…
Though it seemed a little counterintuitive to leave my Harlem apartment and trek down to the Lower East Side to watch a play about Harlem, I'm glad I did. In She's Got Harlem on Her Mind, th…
"You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story." If Calamity Jane was a character in Hamilton, I have to think she'd agree with General Washington"probably very vocally, utte…
'Tis the season for one-person Dickens shows. While Jefferson Mays performs a one-man version of A Christmas Carol on Broadway, Eddie Izzard is performing her solo version of Great Expectati…
Michael Urie is always a delight to watch, so it should come as no surprise that he's also a delight to talk to. While his most recent Broadway credit was the uproarious comedy Chicken &a…
It was the second week of October, and Mack Wilberg, Music Director of the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, had just been given the green light to proceed with the annual Ch…
 Between 1910 and 1940, San Francisco's Angel Island processed somewhere around 250,000 Chinese immigrants. Often detained in a prison-like environment for weeks, months, or even years, …
