Throne of Blood
This stylish stage version of Kurosawa's film, which adapted a Shakespearean tragedy, gains much gravitas in the multiple translations.
This stylish stage version of Kurosawa's film, which adapted a Shakespearean tragedy, gains much gravitas in the multiple translations.
The breakup of the former Yugoslavia is weighed against the breakup of a high school rock band in this award-winning play.
It's Aristophanes by way of "Avenue Q" in this entertainingly lewd but somewhat clunky puppet adaptation of the ancient Greek play.
Virginia Woolf is not afraid of anyone as she takes her audience and readership to task in this wearying but fascinating solo show from director Anne Bogart.
"Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart" centers on Caroline, an Australian girl who receives a wedding invitation via email from a friend who committed suicide three months earlier.
Karinne Keithley's immersive but daunting archival experiment uses multimedia to explore an asylum's curious history but is far too impenetrable.
John Kelly is performing in his inspired dance biography of painter Egon Schiele for the last time.
Diana Amsterdam's touching dark comedy about death is a gloomy but lively circus of manners that urges audiences not to fear the reaper.
Strange spoken inflections are both the selling point and undoing of this humorous though uneven piece.
An interactive stay at this simulated hotel offers a singular experience of ambiance and reflection.
In Lake Simons' solo clown piece "Etiquette Unraveled," the artist conjures a plethora of wistful scenarios using only a few props.
Mourning becomes electronic in Isaac Oliver's hilarious digital overhaul of a classical tragedy, staged tidily by director David Ruttura.
Corporate life goes all dreamlike in this jumbled multimedia performance from Title: Point Productions that's part of Incubator Arts Project.
How do you solve a problem like a stage adaptation of Fassbinder's 'The Marriage of Maria Braun?' With an elegant, darkly comic production.
This well-designed puppet musical about mentally disabled children means well, but doesn't always pull the right strings.
This American premiere of a dark and dense Finnish play feels botched, too shoddily stage for the script's impact to register fully.
A nimbly funny Fringe mash-up from Her Majesty's Secret Players, "Pulp Shakespeare" imagines how the Bard might have written the film "Pulp Fiction."
Three amusingly inept revolutionaries kidnap the audience at the Living Theatre in Hist 123's hilarious Fringe Festival offering, "I >3 Revolution."
Steve Bost's imaginative, vigorously intellectual "The Minervae," a free production in Astoria's Athens Square Park, has fun with deposed Greco-Roman gods.
Director-author-actor Seth Panitch's comedy "Hell: Paradise Found," at 59E59 Theaters, is perhaps too clever but has an undeniable huckster charm.
"Terminator Too: Judgment Play," a parody of James Cameron's 1991 blockbuster film, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," is an earnest and dumbly fun evening.
This third part of Gideon Production's "Honeycomb Trilogy" offers a rich and daring conclusion to the saga, anchored by affecting performances and far-reaching ideas.
"Escape," Susan Mosakowski's delightful comedy at La MaMa, is about the extremes people will endure before attempting a getaway from their absurd lives.
This supple memory play from the Riot Group presents a search for identity, discovery, and sexuality in college with appropriate alienation.
Flux Theatre Ensemble’s sophisticated production of August Schulenburg’s “DEINDE” relies too much upon heady science-fiction concepts.