nytheatre festivals in review
United Solo Roundup #2: Mozart's Sister and From Busk Till Dawn reviewed by Michael Mraz
United Solo Roundup #2: Mozart's Sister and From Busk Till Dawn reviewed by Michael Mraz
The Atmosphere of Memory and La Strada reviewed by David Gordon
Relatively Speaking: One Hit and Two Misses reviewed by Matt Roberson
Arcane Game from United Broadcasting Theatre Company reviewed by Julie Congress
David Crabb's Bad Kid: Great Show
Visits to T. Schreiber Studio (Lobby Hero) and Musicals Tonight! (All American)
Riveting, Humane Jericho at New Jersey Rep reviewed by Nita Congress
All in the Family: Asuncion by Jesse Eisenberg and Children by A.R. Gurney reviewed by David Gordon
Chicago Revisited: Bodies Shipped in from the Garden of Eden reviewed by Judith Jarosz
Muzungu and Prison Light: Intriguing Yet Oblique New Works
An Adaptation That's Better Than the Original: Hoi Polloi's Shadows reviewed by Ed Malin
United Solo Roundup #1: Once Upon a Caterpillar and Clutter reviewed by Michael Mraz
The All For One Theatre Festival: A Preview
With Halloween just around the corner, Rachel Klein's new performance dance piece The Tragedy of Maria Macabre comes at the perfect time. After being workshopped for the past two years in va…
A young girl struggles to come of age while caught in an endless tug of war between her loyalty to the imperfect woman who took her in and her curiosity about the troubled woman who gave her…
A high-octane comedy fraught with hostile fairies, randy ogres, and '90s pop culture; a heart-pounding homage to the badass (& geek) within us all.—Pay only $20
A cast of Asian American performers charm their audience with song, dance and comedy in spite of the looming specter of WWII and internment.—Pay only $35
A horror play of abduction, imprisonment and twisted experiments.—Save $4
A Pair of New Plays by Young Writers: The Mountaintop and Ghost in the Machine
It is the first day of college at a small New England school. Ben (Brett Epstein), who is charming, neurotic, and gay, meets his roommate Sam (David Jackson), who is cute, straight, and blun…
Martin Denton reviews the new solo show by Mike Daisey
When Bill Bowers was brought home from the hospital as a baby, his mother found a poem pinned to his blanket entitled "What is a Boy?" Beyond Words is the acclaimed American mime's attempt t…
No matter what else, the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO)'s current production of Pinter's The Dumb Waiter is successful in feeling fresh and contemporary. Part of that is du…
CRACKED (upon a time) is a battle of wits. Appropriately, it opens with the two characters Alfred and Percy sitting in chairs on opposite sides of the stage while the dueling piano and violi…
Martin Denton reviews two excellent shows at StageLeft Studio