618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
In 2004, Alice is a military interrogator at Guantanamo Bay, nearing the end of her tour and preparing to go home to Texas and get married. By day, she performs her job with gusto, and to th…
We’ve heard from some more winners of the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Here are their answers to the three questions we posed: (1)What was the absolute first thought you had…
In the course of a conversation over Skype some time ago, half in jest, Kara Feely and I formulated a description of Kara's work as the aftermath of a shipwreck: a stormy seascape rising and…
Rachel Dickstein is known especially for her creation and direction of theatrical adaptations of classic works. Dickstein's company, Ripe Time, has done outstanding productions of adaptatio…
Janine Nabers cracks me up on her way to opening my eyes to points of view, experiences, desires and necessities I would not otherwise see. Hers is a young, assured voice with something to …
With Lauren Hennessy, I can never tell if I've been subconsciously writing for her all along, or if she's just so damn good that she can make my words sound like they were made for her. Prob…
Melanie is wacky. Her bright red hair and infectious laugh announce her presence in any room. Her work, chiefly with her company The Nerve Tank, reflects this attitude: unexpected, ever-qu…
Lake Water is a portrait of adolescent turmoil in all its frank cruelty. In a small town in rural Minnesota, high school seniors James and Iris meet on a small dock along a lake they've visi…
“And the winner is…” If you were a nominee for the 2011 New York Innovative Theatre Awards those words can send chills and quivers as you await that all important NAME. And…
What happens to a dream deferred? Ruth Maleczech's galvanizing portrayal of Lucia Joyce, James Joyce's tragically disturbed daughter, made me think of and viscerally feel the first line of L…
Martin Denton reviews the new Broadway revival of FOLLIES
In Crane Story, playwright Jen Silverman creates an otherworldly enchanted Japan where ghosts are routinely encountered during rainy season and the Japanese speak in haikus. It's an intrigui…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's The Wood is a dramatization of Mike McAlary's story complete with drama, humor, and visceral tragedy. Written by Dan Klores, a friend of McAlary, The Wood a…
After a massively successful run in 2008, Arias with a Twist is back, offering sights and sounds that will surprise even the most veteran of theatre -goers. The word "spectacular" is often u…
Winter, by one of contemporary Russian playwright Yevgeni Grishkovetz, is an ambitious modern-day fantasy about a pair of paratroopers led through a series of hallucinations in a wintry fore…
A new company is meshing the plays of William Shakespeare with today's media-soaked culture. After two years of creating smaller works, the New York Shakespeare Exchange brings its first ful…
“How far are you willing to go to protect a child”? This statement captures the essence of Radha Blank's original play, Seed. Seed  examines the life of burnt-out social worke…
Let's be clear. Sibyl Kempson is a director, but she is also a playwright and a performer, and usually she does all three jobs in her own work. So, suffice it to say, when you watch an exper…
Sarah Rasmussen started her first theater company at age 14 in her hometown of Sisseton, South Dakota after seeing a Garland Wright production. As far as I can tell, Sarah has never lost her…
Going to the airport these days is becoming an increasingly daunting task. Gone are the days of families seeing their loved ones off at the gate and free checked baggage; replacing them are …
A wildly pivoting grand staircase in the beginning of Septimus and Clarissa draws you into the stormy interior world of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Ellen McLaughlin, who adapted Woolf's …
Woody Guthrie was a man whose wealth of big ideas exceeded his small frame. He created the cookie cutter for the American Protest song, and without him we may not have had great American son…
1904 was a watershed year for Irish drama. On December 27, the Abbey Theatre opened its doors, fostering a renaissance of new, specifically Irish writing for the stage at a time when Ireland…
Step into a venerable Upper West Side church where Joe Papp once installed the Riverside Shakespeare Company. You will be ushered from room to room by docents who fill you in on the surprisi…
What's harder, love or science? For Elliot and Molly, grad students who can compute and explain complex algorithms and theories, it's the former. The struggle for connection amongst late twe…
