229 stories by "Erin Kahn"
It's probably safe to say that mime theatre is an underappreciated art form. But if you want to see modern miming at its best, look no further than Broken Box Mime Theater. The company's mos…
Halloween may be over, but as long as Radiotheatre's The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street is playing at The Kraine Theater, spooky season is emphatically not. Written by Dan Bianchi, this suff…
On Sunday, The Lion King celebrates its 25th Broadway anniversary. That will also be a milestone for Ray Mercer, who's been with the show for 20 years, making him one of the longest-running …
Every now and then, between revivals, jukebox musicals, movie-based musicals, and productions hellbent on making a statement, you come across that increasingly rare thing in theatre: an orig…
What"or should we say who"makes a monstress monstrous? This is the question raised by Hunger & Thirst Theatre's bluegrass musical Monstress, written by Emily Kitchens with original mu…
Sometimes horror works best in short, self-contained stories. Such is the case with the New Ambassadors' short horror-themed play festival, FEARfest 2022, at Tada! Theater. Seven short…
When a young musician returns to Turkey to care for her troublesome father, she gets a lot more than she bargained for"and so does the audience. Produced by Ars Nova and PlayCo at Greenwich …
In The Anthropologists' Artemisia's Intent, written and directed by Melissa Moschitto, 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia, played by Mariah Freda, returns to share her insights and…
In honor of Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, FRIGID New York and Something From Abroad present the first-ever Days of the Dead Festival. Running October 20 through November 1 at The Kraine …
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is one of those often overlooked women from America's past whose story not only deserves, but needs to be told. At TheaterLab, a cast directed by Kathleen Brant take …
Rob Rokicki's Monstersongs is possibly the greatest (and definitely the funnest) Halloween album of all time. Released by Broadway Records back in 2017, the graphic novel rock album recently…
When aspiring young actress Tig Kennedy is raped by her would-be producer, she faces a wrenching choice: expose the wrongdoing and turn her back on a promising career in Hollywood? Or brush …
Storytelling, on perhaps its most basic level, is a means of transmitting memories and messages from one generation to the next. As such, it becomes a sort of ritual. By sharing our stories …
Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts is, to put it bluntly, nonsensical. An avant-garde opera with a libretto by Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, it's more word-driven than plot…
A CIA newbie with orders to remove the Chilean President walks into a bombed out palace. What could go wrong? In Mark Wilding's delightful comedy Our Man in Santiago, loosely inspired by …
Gertrude Stein once said of her own writing: "if you enjoy it, you understand it." If that's true, then I suppose I understood My Onliness: a world premiere musical about a mad king and his …
What's it like to work at a job that's slowly sucking the life and soul out of you"and is it worth it? That seems to be one of the questions asked by Alexander Perez in his dark comedy Randy…
"There's no reality in which I don't fall in love with you." So says a nervous but excited bride on her wedding day, as she and her husband-to-be wait for their civil ceremony. A 10-minute o…
From time to time, a play can take you by surprise. That was the case with Chain Theater's macbitches, written by Sophie McIntosh and directed by Ella Jane New. While intrigued by the premis…
Eartha Kitt was described by Orson Welles as "the most exciting woman in the world." Yet for 10 years, she was blacklisted from work in the United States. Why? Because she spoke her mind in …
What makes a play queer? Is it simply a queer cast? A queer aesthetic? Or something more? Billed as a queer and gender-blind, abridged and I quote "hilarious version of this beloved classic,…
A year ago, I had the opportunity to review Alexander Perez's dark comedy Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle, which follows a team of overworked, underpaid employees at a rundown amusement park al…
Scene: the Sakha Republic, Siberia. Some time in the future, a genetically engineered mammelephant (half mammoth, half elephant) has an existential crisis in a man-made park created to solve…
Kathy Ng's Happy Life, directed by Kat Yen at Walkerspace, is not a show for everyone. Nor is it a show for the faint of heart. But if kinky, morbid humor is your thing, well guess what, it'…
10-year-old Sarah Silverman has one big, big problem. Well, to be honest, she has more than one problem. Her parents are newly divorced, her mother hasn't left her bed in weeks, and her olde…
