618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
Open Rehearsal is a new play by Lazarre S. Simckes, now playing at Theater For The New City. It was selected by Edward Albee as first runner up in Yale’s inaugural Drama Series Competi…
They say you should practice what you preach, and Bob is one of the most vivid examples I have seen of that. After having the privilege of studying with performer and SITI Company founding m…
This notion of timeliness weighs heavily on British/German company Gob Squad as they take Warhol's films and adapt them into a live theatrical event, with "one hundred years from now" one of…
I've seen many versions of Porgy and Bess, from the 1959 Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge film to the 1970s' full operatic production by the Houston Grand Opera, from the 1980s' Metropolitan…
Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the world. A walk from the 7 train to the school where this lovely production was presented offers tempting Sou…
For the seventh time, Metropolitan Playhouse is presenting a "Living Literature Festival," in which the life and work of one or more artists from American's past serves as the insp…
With the combination of a still-reeling economy and a rapidly shortening attention span of the American public, the idea has begun to surface that theater is a dying art-form. Film and TV ha…
In all my previous encounters with Shakespeare's Richard III, on stage, on screen, and even on the page, the character of Richard himself has been central to my experience of the play: a …
The Fall to Earth tells the story of Fay (Deborah Hedwall) and her estranged daughter Rachel (Jolie Curtsinger) who reluctantly agree to take a trip together to an unnamed city in order to b…
In Matthew Maguire's new drama Instinct, we learn that diseases and animals usually adapt more quickly than humans. The four characters in this story are all scientists who work at the Cente…
After seeing the first marvelous show in Mac Rogers' Honeycomb Trilogy, I am eagerly awaiting the next two in the series at the Secret Theatre in the coming months. If you would enjoy an int…
One Thousand Blinks, a new play by Nick Starr now playing at 59e59, annoyed me greatly. It's about a man named Morgan who takes a job in an unnamed (vaguely Asian?) country as an English pro…
Newyorkland rages in its New York premiere at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, exposing the grim, isolated world of the NYPD in a stark multimedia installation. The claustrophobic presentation p…
It's an evocative idea, going through a shoebox full of old photos and remembering each moment, good or bad. Cate Ryan's new drama The Picture Box, a production of The Negro Ensemble Company…
Don't let the name fool you. Paired with the advertisements that promise six nude performers, the title of Young Jean Lee's Untitled Feminist Show promises to deliver nothing if not extremel…
Winner of a 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Best, LEO is a fabulous piece of physical theater. It is the funniest, most imaginative wordless performance I have ever seen.
An interview with actor/creator Will Bond about his solo performance BOB, moderated by one of his former students, Julie Congress.
Miranda knocked my socks off. This new theater work by Kamala Sankaram and Rob Reese mashes up a variety of traditional musical theatre forms (mostly operatic and classical ones) with uber-r…
TEAM stands for "Theatre of the Emerging American Moment""and together, the members of this innovative ensemble have created some extraordinary theatrical moments. Perhaps none has more been…
In Righteous Money, actor-playwright Michael Yates Crowley imagines what might happen if a TV money evangelist got stricken by a severe case of conscience. To add drama and immediacy, Crowle…
Awkward Levity, a trio of one-act plays by Richard Hinojosa, offers just what its title promises. Each of these three pieces, in very distinct and surprising ways, finds what's darkly humoro…
With a title audacious enough to warrant a parody film of a similar title, The Living Theatre's newest production matches that boldness with its vision. Who are you in history? In The Histor…
On arriving at The Public, the audience is asked to line the hallway outside the Newman Theater, leading up to a banner proclaiming "The End." After a few minutes of waiting, the intrepid me…
Zayd Dohrn's Outside People, a production of the Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels, directed by Evan Cabnet, has the unlucky timing of opening the same season as a much higher-profile play a…
Freckleface Strawberry reviewed by Wendy Remington Bowie
