197 stories by "Mason Pilevsky"
The Imaginary Invalid – 28 October 2026 Bill Irwin’s adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid lovingly preserves and modernizes Moliere’s original text in ways that are imaginative, funny, …
Pirates of Penzance [in Yiddish] – 25 October 2026 A raucous concert production of Pirates of Penzance fleetingly set sail at Symphony Space. The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene put on…
ANON – 24 October 2026 In ANON, a mother named Jeanie (Crystal Finn) gets caught up in the TikTok whirlwind phenomenon that is QAnon. Her daughter Delia (Izabel Mar) is disgusted. Her husb…
Exclusive Interview with Ava Patino – 14 October 2026 Love is in the air as St. Jean’s Players prepares to present a Sondheim Tribute Revue. Featuring 26 cast members, this performance i…
King of the Yees – 21 October 2026 Towards the end of King of the Yees, Lauren Yee’s onstage representation of herself (Kelly Marie Tran) acknowledges that sometimes you start writing on…
Phyl – 13 October 2026 Most new works struggle to speak as clearly as Cicely Hamilton’s 1911 societal critique, Phyl. Shocking in its bold directness, this play examines the inner workin…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – 18 October 2026 The story of a wandering soul dreaming of just a little more time, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button follows a man whose peculiar ci…
Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen – 12 October 2026 Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen follows the story of Colette (Sophia Anne Caruso), a young writer working in a whorehouse in Paris as she examin…
Midnight – 14 October 2026 Todrick Hall’s Midnight is the bold, completely original theatrical adventure I have hungered for in Broadway’s recent years. Profoundly meaningful, provocat…
Fish – 07 October 2026 The Internet is a myriad of possibilities, and giant mistakes waiting to happen when one gets carried away. Fish by playwright Melis Aker explores what happens when …
Good Time Charlie – 06 October 2026 A beautiful homage to the meaning and magic of theatre, Good Time Charlie is Ryan J. Haddad’s latest attempt to explain what it’s like to be a gay, …
Soon – 04 October 2026 Nick Blaemire’s musical ode to circular loneliness, Soon, follows the story of a young woman, Charlie (Ava Delaney) who is paralyzed in place as global warming thr…
The Hairy Ape – 02 October 2026 Eugene O’Neill’s treatise on belonging, The Hairy Ape, follows the journey of a stoker known as Yank (Jon Beavers) as he tries to find a place where he …
creation stories and all the important importants – 29 September 2026 creation stories and all the important importants chronicles the stress of thegrownwoman (Abigail C. Onwunali) on her…
School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play – 30 September 2026 School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play centers around Aburi Girls Boarding School, where a recruiter named Eloise (…
New York Sings Yiddish – 17 September 2026 Jewish joy has been hard to come by for me lately. I have been bogged down in my own fears and worries. As I got ready to leave my apartment to g…
In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat – 16 September 2026 In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat is a clear example of the disorientingly startling effect when poetry in motion stops moving. In this …
Pre-existing Condition – 10 September 2026 Pre-existing Condition perfectly captures the blurred lines of post traumatic existence in its portrayal of a domestic violence survivor and her …
The Winter’s Tale – 9 August 2026 Many of the Shakespeare in the Park offerings by the Public Theater at the Delacorte go to great lengths to draw a modern parallel or present the produc…
An American Daughter – 8 August 2026 One of the great beauties and joys of being an American is how many ways there are to define what an American is. Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Dau…
Disruption – 06 August 2026 At this point, it already feels like artificial intelligence knows our every move. But what if there was an algorithm out there that cared about us? What if we …
Where the Yetis Will Be – 25 July 2026 As a transgender man, it’s rare to see depictions in theatre that feel representative of my gender, let alone the diversity of my gender. So to see…
Hungry Women – 23 July 2026 A femme-forward depiction of rage and truth, Hungry Women explores the idea of a male-free world, starting from day one, then one hundred years later, then a hu…
The Piano and Me – 14 July 2026 Hershey Felder never fails to dazzle me. He is one of the world’s most profoundly interesting multi-hyphenates because if even one of the skills he purpor…
Birthright – 26 June 2026 Birthright is an organized tour for young diaspora Jews to come to Israel for a free ten-day trip meant to show them the best Israel has to offer and to rekindle …
