322 stories by "Nicole Serratore"
The APAP conference has put together some dynamic and diverse panels showcasing artists who are breaking down barriers, working across genres, and using art to bring the world together.&nb…
You may be wondering why suddenly in January you start hearing about all sorts of small theater festivals around New York City. The reason these festivals exist is because of the Ass…
The black lake is so inviting. Filling the entirety of the Park Avenue Armory's drill hall with a slick black pool of water, with two pianos in the middle, Douglas Gordan's insta…
Limited edition Churlish Meg originalSomewhere between Bedford-Nostrand and Flushing Avenue I'm crying. It's the G train so literally no one cares. A girl cries on the G train every twenty…
I enjoyed another year of UK theater-going. I saw almost 50 shows out of the country. From what I saw, these were my favorites: 1. A View From the Bridge (Young Vic):…
Year-end self-reflection is a bitch. Looking over my theatrical year I saw a lot of high-profile works that did not quite live up to their potential and discovered some new artists I had not…
"I'm really terrible at being a person."Samuel Hunter again manages to find that painful spot in your heart where longing, grief, love, and disappointment lie and reveals it ever so gently t…
"What's sacred to you?" Ayad Akhtar's new play is a sly devil. From its opening moments in a windowless cement block cell, you may think this is a play about torture or jihadists or …
When the Forest Fringe microfestival descended on New York in October something was missing. It was not just the amazing cheese soup I ate at the Drill Hall cafe at this year's Forest …
With breathing tableaux and an emotionally wrought story, this John Adams-Alice Goodman opera delivers a punch to the gut. I'm not sure I've experienced a more chilling theatrical experien…
"We're not a family that talks."Samuel D. Hunter has become the poet laureate playwright of the washed-up and emotionally crippled. His past Idaho plays (A Brand New Boise, The Whale, The F…
Sure everyone is all focused on Jeremy Jordan being cast in the Parade concert today or still recovering from yesterday's Encores' Off-Broadway series....But I'm pretty excited about this ca…
Having seen David Greig's play about faith and violence in Edinburgh in 2013 I was curious how they would cast the play when it was scheduled to play New York Theatre Workshop. Ramin G…
Bearing in mind I saw the first preview of City of Angels and could still smell the paint on the set, I can't really "review" it. Things may change between when I as the show and it is ope…
I wish I had just bought dinner at a table next to Alessandro Nivola rather than payed a small fortune to see this play. At least in that instance I'd have had a really nice meal and …
I've been shit about cross-posting my writing from other places on the internet. But had a discussion with John Murphy about Daniel Kitson's new storytelling show A Show for Christmas …
As the swirling cast tore off pieces of the balladeer's clothes and transformed him, I thought Jamie Lloyd's production of Assassins had its claws in me. It was most unexpected since w…
I'm leaving London today. I feel like I've been away forever. The world has been in an uproar and I haven't even had a TV to see it unfold. And when things are happen at home, a…
Daniel Kitson's two person play Tree will have its London premiere at the Old Vic Theatre in January 2015. Starring Kitson and comedian Tim Key, the work originally premiered in Manche…
I thought I had reached a breaking point this year with the voices of straight, white male voices in theater. But when it's Young Jean Lee doing the curating of those voices I'm will…
"Which, did no one anywhere on the R and D chain bring up how stupid it is to call a drone 'Icarus'?" Shifting tone between humor and the serious business of international espionage, Mac Ro…
If you went to see Jez Butterworth's The River on Broadway because I raved about the London production, well then I'm really sorry. It has been the rare experience for me to see a play…
