46 stories by "Nicole Villeneuve"
A spoof of the shady side of college admissions, D.B. Gilles' new play offers moments of fun that unfortunately often stretch into periods of tedium.
In his first new work in more than a decade, avant-garde pioneer John Jesurun updates the stories of 17th-century writer Ihara Saikaku for a dreamlike look at our isolated modern world.
Featuring a flurry of action and little substance, Susan Eve Haar's new play is swallowed up by a supernatural premise that takes precedence over its characters.
In a sensuous and disturbing one-woman show that largely manages to avoid the perilous trap of self-reflectivity, Raïna von Waldenburg channels three stories that confront the taboo t…
Carla Ching's update of the Hansel and Gretel tale attempts to articulate the perils of growing up but hides the real emotion of adolescence behind unnecessary modernizations.
In three bizarre but powerful playlets, Sybil Kempson takes us on an exploration of the grotesque and the uncanny that forces us to stop thinking and start feeling.
Playwright Dan Fishback honors some of its lesser-known heroes of the AIDS epidemic, in a production that's half personal history, half artistic tribute.
Spectacle rules the day in drag diva Joey Arias' and puppetry master Basil Twist's whirlwind tour of new worlds ending in Big Band–era New York and a decidedly modern interpretation …
Creator Cody Lucas takes the gruesomeness of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales several steps further in this heavy-handed and directionless production, which devolves into an unfocused, sadis…
The audience determines the fate of Shakespeare's famously star-crossed lovers in this frothy romp that, playing strictly for laughs, amuses and irks in equal measure.
Although this one-man show contains too many competing threads, David Nichols' tour-de-force performance overcomes the play's flaws to offer a complex and disquieting picture of our relati…
In this sequel to "In High Germany," Dermot Bolger returns to the same characters 20 years later, effortlessly adapting poignant scenes of homecoming, friendship, and renewal for the next …
This new play by Terry Quinn struggles to assert itself both as drama and as farce, in a confused attempt to explore what happens when couples tell the truth.
Bill Rutkoski's superficial comedy incomprehensibly attempts to center a full-length play on an already-tired stereotype: the overbearing mother. The result is reminiscent of a standup act.
Art, pain, and love become inextricably linked in Maggie Bofill's promising new play, whose emotional exuberance suffers from an unfortunate overdose of clumsy metaphor.
Eight years after its premiere in the New York International Fringe Festival, Brian Sloan's play still captures the elegiac but persevering mood that continues to shape the city after Sept…
Mabou Mines returns the storybook tale of Peter Pan to its more grown-up roots, in a production that manages to inspire a childlike sense of wonder in those big or small.
Michael P. Kramer's wooden-beam set provides the contours of the many settings the musical requires, while also providing an open central area where the ensemble sits throughout.
This staging of Ukrainian Oleh Lysheha's haunting poem derives its power from the text but is undermined by puzzling staging choices that counteract it.
In this one-man show, NPR host Al Letson proves that he can make words spellbinding yet somehow never fully connects with his audience.
The comedian's latest one-man show never reaches the heights of his earlier "Sleepwalk With Me," too often feeling like a mishmash of generic romantic anecdotes.
