Review: RABBIT ISLAND by Martin Denton
Chris Harcum's new play Rabbit Island is a quirky, funny, romantic comedy about figuring out who you are and what you want; and how to survive, given that knowledge, in the big city in the 2…
Chris Harcum's new play Rabbit Island is a quirky, funny, romantic comedy about figuring out who you are and what you want; and how to survive, given that knowledge, in the big city in the 2…
The Traveling Musicians produced by 3 Sticks Theater Company follows the reunion tour of the band Rooster, Donkey, Cat and Dog. As the title suggests this show is loosely based on the Grimm'…
Man Saved By Condiments by Mary Jo Pehl is based on the true story of a Midwestern man, Steve (Tim Uren), whose car goes off the road, leaving him with a broken hip and forced to wait for re…
Moe Rosen"Canadian comic, award-winning author of "Noam Chomsky is an Asshole," and transplant to New York"is here on a mission. He would like to explain (but only once, so the whole audienc…
Mentalist Marc Salem is back in New York City after a long time away; his new show Mind Over Manhattan runs just three more Saturdays at the Society for Ethical Culture near Lincoln Center. …
In the Galileo playing at Classic Stage Company, the hallmarks its patrons have come to expect under artistic director Brian Kulick (who also directs) are all on handsome display: The five-m…
Performance artists Jason Morneau, from Windsor, Ontario, and Azana, from San Francisco, California, present Aerial Allusions, a series of dance meditations on love. Part ballet, part clowni…
A strong contender for best title of the current season, Stripper Lesbians as a word pairing can serve as a salacious enticement and, through nothing more than focusing in a literal, straigh…
D'yan Forest, ageless, reveals that she is in her 70s and has lived a life filled with love...including marrying a former nun. Over the course of an intimate hour, D'yan's character relates …
Rob Ackerman's new play Call Me Waldo is about an electrician named Lee who, while coping with the trauma of his daughter's recent illness, has begun channeling the late philosopher Ralph Wa…
My 2012 FRIGID New York experience kicked off with Blind to Happiness, a one-man play written and performed by Tim C. Murphy. Like many FRIGID shows past, this one comes from Canada (Tim's f…
"The peculiar and misguided true adventures of a man and his therapy dog," reads the blurb for John Grady's solo show Fear Factor: Canine Edition, now playing at the FRIGID New Yor…
For his target audience--the dozens of children inside the MMAC--The Amazing Max is great theatre. How else can one explain that for over an hour, a room full of kids sat transfixed, eyes st…
If you talk to people, it can seem like Ed Malin’s been around as long as indie theater as we know it today. Elena Holy, the producing artistic director of the New York International F…
Talking about pornography is taboo and dirty, right? After seeing David Lawson's articulate and entertaining new solo show VCR Love you may change your mind. His stories are honest, charming…
Una Aya Osato is an actor and playwright. She has written and performed in her solo shows at festivals, schools and theatres across the country and in Canada. Una has also worked as a teach…
Just when the winter doldrums threaten to kick in, along comes FRIGID New York to bring a jolt of energy and excitement to the NYC theater landscape. A production of Horse Trade Theater Grou…
Bricken Sparacino is a performer, writer, and director. She has collaborated with several solo performers to help develop and to direct their shows. Bricken has written numerous comedy sket…
Chris Harcum is an actor and playwright. Over 20 of his works have been seen on NYC stages. He has performed in many of his own works and has worked as a teaching artist. With director Aimee…
Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company is, by its own description, a "geek theatre company specializing in creating comic book styled theatrical shows that are filled with martial arts, badass ladi…
The power of the unknown and inexplicable to evoke fear is wonderfully utilized in 13P's fantastic A Map of Virtue. There are mysteries in the woods in the night that mirror our minds' shado…
I Killed My Mother by Romanian playwright Andras Visky is presented at La MaMa by Chicago's Theatre Y, which will subsequently take the play on tour to Serbia and beyond. This haunting, non-…
Brazil! Brazil!, currently running at the New Victory, is a fast-paced, music, dance and action-filled sixty minutes that give a quick drive-by to everything you already knew about Brazil. T…
Any adaptive treatment of Moby-Dick has a beast to contend with equal to the novel's monstrous namesake. The chapter-length ruminations, the Homeric cataloguing of whales and whale-parts, an…
I'm still scratching my head over Tokio Confidential, Eric Schorr's baffling yet intermittently entrancing new musical directed by Johanna McKeon at Atlantic Stage 2. "Bonkers, but interesti…