572 stories by "Howard Miller"
Is there such a thing as white lung disease?
The game is afoot as the famed English consulting detective Sherlock Holmes locks horns with the French "gentleman thief" Arsène Lupin in a mashup play based on stories by the creators of e…
The parallel stories of two teenage girls living 175 years apart take them leaping from the tepid frying pan of their stultifying lives into an all-consuming fire in Echoes, Henry Naylor's g…
Pity the poor guy (Daniel Abeles) who appears to have wandered by accident into a world that embodies all of the rage, defiance, disgust, self-empowerment, and self-loathing of generations o…
Hoarding is the least of the problems faced by Naomi (Kim Krane), the young woman at the center of Keep, Francesca Pazniokas's play about a space-challenged apartment dweller and her well-in…
Who better to expound on Bad Quarto's highly energized seat-of-the-pants production of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke than William Shakespeare himself: "Though this be m…
Aficionados of experimental theater, the kind that simultaneously enlightens, amuses and confounds, are hereby directed to the Abrons Arts Center and the Irish company Pan Pan's production o…
Conspiracy theories abound and occasionally run amok in Ideation, Aaron Loeb's darkly comic play at 59E59 Theaters, about a corporate brainstorming session that conjures up images of the Hol…
A white cop with a history of anger issues chases a young black teenager into a deserted warehouse. The teen plunges four stories from a window. Did he fall? Was he pushed? And does it make …
"Ambitious" seems such a tame adjective to apply to Speakeasy (or, to be more precise, Speakeasy: John And Jane's Adventures In The Wonderland), the new musical at the Theater for the New Ci…
A pair of late career one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, one of which is receiving its world premiere, reflect the master playwright in his most experimental absurdist mode in the Playhous…
Safe sex has taken on a whole new meaning in the dystopian world inhabited by the characters in Emilie Collyer's darkly comic science fiction play, The Good Girl, opening tonight at 59E59 Th…
It's the music, first and foremost, that carries the bio-play Rock And Roll Refugee, based on the hard times and rebellious life of Genya Ravan.
Details that pile up in real time paint a distressingly convincing portrait of a physically and emotionally drained East Texas woman for whom the American dream is as elusive as a unicorn, i…
With Lauren Gunderson's I And You at 59E59 Theaters, you will be called upon to suspend your disbelief more than once, as a pair of teenagers work together on a presentation for their Americ…
Playwright Brendan Gall calls his intense drama Wide Awake Hearts, now on view at 59E59 Theaters, a "nightmare with no intermission."
A new work by Neil LaBute does not put in an appearance until the very end of the evening of six short pieces that constitute the LaBute New Theater Festival at 59E59 Theaters . . .
How Alfo Learned to Love, Vincent Amelio's breezy family play centering on the world of an Italian bakery, is in the process of evolving from an earlier incarnation as a Fellini-inspired tal…
Young adolescents, 11, 12, 13 years old, are terribly vulnerable to the sudden physical, emotional, and social upheaval that marks their lives at this stage of development, a time when self-…
If you are seeking a fun and creepy evening of Grand Guignol theater filled with blood and horror, you need look no further than The Seeing Place's revival of Martin McDonagh's darker-than-d…
Too bad John Patrick Shanley already had laid claim to the title Doubt by the time Evan Smith got around to penning his own take on matters of faith in 2009.
The title characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard's masterwork of existentialism, are often thought of as resembling the protagonists of Samuel Beckett's Waiting fo…
He's no Tony Soprano, this Salvy, a mobster and professional hit man who shows up unexpectedly at his cousin's Hoboken apartment in the subdued production of Mark Borkowski's The Head Hunter…
When Lanford Wilson's Obie and Drama Critics Circle Award-winning Hot L Baltimore began its three-year Off Broadway run in 1973, the homeless population across the United States was on a ste…
Anton Chekhov is transported to Tennessee in Songbird, the talent-filled if uneven new musical at 59E59 Theaters that draws its plot from The Seagull while shifting things from 19th Century …
