572 stories by "Howard Miller"
How competitive are you with your friends? How forthcoming? How judgmental?
During the decade between 1938 and 1948, one nightclub stood out as a daring alternative to New York's racially divided hotspots where you would typically find black performers entertaining …
Last year, director James Rutherford and his company, M-34, brought us a compelling production called The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway, a mashup of the writings of Oscar Wilde and He…
Oh, what trouble 12-year-old girls can get into when left casually unsupervised. Such is the case in playwright Jenny Rachel Weiner's Horse Girls, a slight, dark(ish) sketch comedy about a g…
Anyone looking to sprinkle the holiday season with a hefty dose of silly need look no further than the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row and the zany production of Todd Michael's The Asphalt Chris…
If you ever need an example to illustrate the adage "absolute power corrupts absolutely," take heed of Tamburlaine, the destructive juggernaut who is at the center of Christopher Marlow's si…
Playwright Dan Kitrosser is never one to say no to a joke or a gag, as the often funny, often head-spinningly out of control joke-and-gag-filled Dead Special Crabs opening tonight at TBG The…
Once upon a time, Nick Luckenbaugh, a songwriter with a penchant for folk and folk rock music, put together a collection of theatrical songs based on the inner lives of 13 fairy tale princes…
Anyone who mentions the poet Sylvia Plath and the word "oven" in the same sentence is generally not talking about her cooking skills.
It takes more than a willing suspension of disbelief to fully engage with Powwow Highway, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.'s adaption of the novel of the same title by David Seals.
Enter into the theater at the Soho Rep these days and you will find yourself surrounded by music and engulfed in love, loss, and heartbreak in debbie tucker green's generations, a compact bu…
Believe everything she says. Believe nothing she says. Got it? Good.
Global climate change is not the only unpredictable variable in Cori Thomas's When January Feels Like Summer, newly returned to the Ensemble Studio Theatre after an earlier run in June.
After a brief run earlier this year at St. Luke's Theatre, Billy Hayes"the hero of his own well-burnished story"is now ensconced at the Barrow Street Theatre with Riding the Midnight Express…
Ah, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But what if, despite all of your talent and all of your efforts, you can't seem to make it here?
A trio of sour middle-aged siblings gathers in the parlor of the family homestead in northern Maine like "carrion crows around a sick cow in a pasture," awaiting the death of their equally c…
It is a tricky business to try to pull off an absurdist comedy like Sari Caine’s often outlandish yet surprisingly touching and excellently acted Mr. Landing Takes A Fall, a production of …
The Twelfth Labor, a new play written by Leegrid Stevens and directed by Matt Torney at the Gene Frankel Theatre, is a head spinning trove of ideas, images, time shifts, mythological analogi…
The Valley of Astonishment, the opening production as the Theatre For A New Audience enters its second season at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, starts off like a fairy tale.
Solitary Light, the haunting and haunted musical production at the Axis Theatre, is a powerful evocation of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers …
A group of seventh grade boys enter a bar and act their age. . . .
The term "safe sex" takes on new shades of meaning when knives join condoms as part of the package in Smoke, a new play by Kim Davies, now on view at The Flea Theater. . . .
No one should go into an evening of German expressionist plays expecting a light and airy time of it.
Anything can happen on a midsummer's night. Shakespeare knew it, of course, and used the occasion to launch a timeless comedy. August Strindberg knew it as well, but his take on midsummer ma…
Daughter of the Waves, Eileen Connolly's richly layered and moving play about a ragtag band of circus acrobats, storytellers, singers and dancers set against the backdrop of World War II, is…
