229 stories by "Erin Kahn"
I've seen some weird stuff lately, but I'm very glad I took a chance on French playwright/director David Lescot's Dough. A Compagnie du Kairos production presented by Villa Albertine and the…
In the name of liberty, four robbers are hatching a plot to steal everyone's phones. They're dressed in gray uniforms that sort of resemble pajamas, and black felt bandit masks that seem to …
Maya Angelou's 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has already been adapted for both film and stage, but New York City Children's Theater's world-premiere production at Theatre Ro…
What does it mean to be a Jew today? That's the main question asked in Michael Takiff's clever if convoluted solo show Jews, God, and History (Not Necessarily in That Order), currently playi…
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation," said Robert Frost. And after watching Anchuli Felicia King's engrossing and poetic Golden Shield, I'm inclined to add "as is love." Directed by May…
"I want to write something so Black that God can't ignore me." Playwright and performer Kareem M. Lucas speaks these words while standing on a huge wooden cross enshrined in a massive gold f…
From time to time, to quote my favorite song from Dear Evan Hansen, "words fail." At the moment, words fail as I search for a way to describe (and adequately praise) a show whose gentle beau…
"Whether on stage in front of an audience, or over the phone to a friend " we need to tell our stories. When we tell our stories, we give others permission to do the same. This is how we�…
Mary Todd Lincoln: misunderstood First Lady, bereft mother, obsessive widow"and now, the unlikely subject of a trippy piece of experimental theatre. In american vicarious' new work Shooti…
Playwright Adam Kraar is interested in cross-cultural, cross-generational stories. His latest work, The Karpovsky Variations, follows one young woman's search for her scattered, elusive fami…
I was hooked from the title. As someone who loves folk music and was largely raised on "songs about trains,"Â I was pretty sure I was going to love it before I even stepped into the theatr…
Much has been written (and, especially lately, staged) about marginalized people's troubled relationships with the non-marginalized. But what about the relationships of different marginalize…
Take Shape, Broken Box Mime Theater's newest devised show, explores ten stories about emergence and transformation. It's the company's first Mainstage show in three years, and to celebrat…
Women have really been getting screwed over from the beginning. That was one of my takeaways from #SoSadSoSexy, presented by Tapestry Collective at The Tank. Written and created by Emily …
If you're a Shakespeare aficionado who wants to laugh out loud for two hours straight and doesn't mind a touch of bawdy humor, then Jane Anger is for you. The Jennifer Campos Production, …
In my experience, any production that includes Steve Earle on its creative team is sure to have at least a few good things going for it. In the case of Coal Country, Audible Theater's new li…
In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. faced off at the University of Cambridge, on live tv and in front of an overly packed house, on a question that, 57 years later, is no less …
In 1927, my great-great grandfather wrote a letter home from Germany. With admirable wit and evident pleasure, Nathan Low writes about visiting his father's cousins in Ludwigshafen. Though, …
One of New York's biggest (and best) theatre festivals is back. The 16th Annual FRIGID Festival brings together artists from across the Indie Theatre Community, with plenty of fun, exciting,…
Erin Cronican seems to be unstoppable. The actor, producer, and director is currently starring in a new production of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning WIT at The Seeing Place Theat…
Sometimes less is more, and in One Christmas Carol at The Chain Theatre, less is much more. Adapted from Charles Dickens' classic by Douglas H. Baker, and performed by him in multiple states…
Playwright, director, and actor Sara Fellini's work has been described by the New York Times as "darkly humorous, deliciously ghoulish." spit&vigor, of which Fellini is the artistic dire…
For Harry Hadden-Paton, the chance to do a new musical (and one written by James Lapine, no less) was a dream come true. The British actor who made his Broadway debut in Lincoln Center's …
When COVID struck, conductor Mack Wilberg knew the Tabernacle Choir's annual Christmas concert couldn't go on as usual. But he and his colleagues wanted to keep the tradition alive. So they …
John Patrick Shanley's new play Candlelight is sort of like West Side Story"but with 10-year-olds, Jim Henson-esque demons, and a scantily clad fairy. Directed by Lori Kee, Candlelight, a Nu…
