160 stories by "KEN JAWOROWSKI"
"Scrambled Eggs," a play by Robin Amos Kahn and Gary Richards, is about a premenopausal woman reflecting on her commonplace life, her past boyfriends and her eventual marriage to a nice guy.…
Allison Moore's comedy "Collapse" is built around a couple dealing with infertility and other serious issues.
"According to Goldman" tells of problems encountered as a professor and a student work on a screenplay.
What's the next level after impressed? Whatever it is, that emotion arrives often in "Totem," the newest show from Cirque du Soleil.
A cheerful Strindberg play? It's true; his "Easter" is anything but depressing.
In the saloon at the center of Adam Szymkowicz's "Clown Bar" the regulars wear clown makeup and costumes, and speak in the hard-boiled slang of 1930s gangsters.
The British troupe Theater Cut is presenting a program of short works written in response to the worldwide economic slowdown.
The wildly percussive "Mulan the Musical," at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, isn't Disney, although it tells the story of the same high-spirited heroine.
The mime troupe Mummenschanz returns with tried-and-true skits that continue to be crowd-pleasers, even if the crowd is made up of gadget-obsessed youngsters.
"Blood Potato," by James McManus, is a family drama of three brothers on the edge.
Mike Vogel's play "March Madness," set in an unhappy newsroom, derives humor from the kind of office politics seen in television sitcoms.
With its new show, "Legendarium," the Big Apple Circus continues to occupy Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center during the fall and early winter.
"Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo" captures the horror of violence through the words of the actors, who are real survivors of what they describe.
"Urban" features graduates from Circo Para Todos in an act reminiscent of Cirque du Soleil's, but with a decidedly hip-hop feel.
Though "The Old Man and the Old Moon" bills itself as a "play with music," you'll need more words than those to sum it up.
Politics and human nature play out in "Both Your Houses," Maxwell Anderson's 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner.
"Winners" and "Losers," two plays by Brian Friel presented as "Lovers," are being staged at the Beckett Theater.
The warmhearted play "Marius" is a bit short on plot, but this revival, by the Storm Theater Company, doesn't want for talent.
"The Exonerated," in a revival at the Culture Project, recounts the tales of six former death-row inmates, using their own words. And 10 years after its premiere, it is still unsettling.
"Normalcy," a new play by Bennett Windheim, deals the issue of transracial adoption.
At 90 minutes, "Fantasy Artists" is rather good. But you can't help thinking that at 75 minutes it would be even better.
An all-woman adaptation of the Sophocles play continues through Aug. 26.
The two-man adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" is at the SoHo Playhouse
"Lady and the Champ" includes film clips of Jake LaMotta's career; an interview with a fictional reporter; and Denise Baker, his "future seventh wife," singing.
In this play, a pool cleaner comes up with a concoction that could scrub the ocean.
