229 stories by "Erin Kahn"
One of the most anticipated events at BroadwayCon each year has got to be the BroadwayCon First Look. Where else can you hear first hand about the hottest new shows hitting Broadway in the c…
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will has been called Shakespeare’s perfect play. In the same spirit, I’d call Fiasco Theater’s production of Twelfth Night (directed by Noah B…
If you mourned the closing of Jersey Boys after its 11-year run on Broadway earlier this year, you’ll be pleased to learn that the boys from Jersey are back in New York City — th…
As you approach the stairs leading up to the immersive production of The Dead, 1904 — directed by Ciaran O’Reilly at the American Irish Historical Society — you’…
If you’re looking for a delightful little Christmas show with a good dose of old-fashioned charm, the production of It’s a Wonderful Life currently playing at Irish Repertory …
In William Nicholson’s play Shadowlands, Oxford scholar and Christian writer C.S. Lewis (known to his friends as Jack) meets the much younger and much more abrasive Joy Davidman.…
Molière’s Tartuffe is a hilarious play, and sometimes it’s best to just let a comedy play without trying to project other things onto it. In my opinion, Phoenix Theatre Ensem…
Despite its uncontested standing as the ultimate vampire story and a classic horror novel, Bram Stoker’s Dracula contains very little outright blood and gore. It’s implied, fo…
It isn’t until the final scene of Debra Whitfield’s new play FIREÂ that the drama’s various threads intertwine and the playwright’s ultimate purpose becomes clear. …
Set in Donegal, Ireland in 1878, Brian Friel’s The Home Place (at Irish Repertory Theatre)Â dramatizes the racial tension between the native Irish and the ruling English. It also dep…
Why is it so hard to create a successful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? That was the question I pondered as I watched Eric B. Sirota’s new Frankenstein musical, direc…
Despite being one of the first plays ever written in America, Robert Hunter’s Androboros: Villain of the State has never been performed on a stage. That is, not until just last year…
John Doyle’s new CSC production of As You Like It features Hannah Cabell in the role of Rosalind: one of Shakespeare’s most indomitable and beloved heroines. The production al…
Every month we highlight the best programming available on BroadwayHD, a streaming service for theater around the world. Present Laughter If you missed Kevin Kline's Tony-winning Broa…
Summer is over. And while that may mean an end of Shakespeare in the Park and several other Off-Broadway productions, there’s still plenty of theater to enjoy in the fall. Trying to li…
In this day and age, writing a musical in rhyming iambic pentameter is a little gutsy. To pull it off, you’re going to need a good playwright and a darn good cast. Happily, The York Th…
Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil, the cinema musical at St. Luke’s Theatre penned and performed by the Indiggo Twins, has a lot going for it. For one thing, the twins themselv…
TESLA, a multidisciplinary opera about inventor Nikola Tesla, who lived around the turn of the 19th century, premieres this week at SoBe Arts in Miami Beach, Florida. Written by Carson Kievm…
When his two guardians ship eleven-year-old Edgar Allan off to boarding school, he couldn’t be happier. It’s a chance to sharpen his skills and gain an unparalleled educat…
As West Side Story and The Lion King demonstrate, Shakespeare-inspired musicals can work wonderfully — but only when done right. Happily, Boomerang Theatre Company’s Lov…
How do you write the perfect constitution for a new government? That’s merely one of the questions Mickaël de Oliveira’s play The Constitution asks. Perhaps even more central …
Thomas Klingenstein’s play If Only…, directed by Christopher McElroen at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is a moving depiction of the relationship between a white woman and a blac…
If you run quickly through a list of Shakespeare’s tragedies you may notice something:Â Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear – the title characters are all men. Of course, there…
“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements,” Lady Macbeth exclaims, gesturing triumphantly at the sky. A particularly loud helicop…
Shakespeare’s comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona lends itself well to piracy, and director Ariel Leigh picks up on the hint in her swashbuckling production at The Brick. For my tastes,…
