618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
I first saw Fela! two and a half years ago, when it was first produced on Broadway. At the time, it was one of the most revolutionary, energetic and inspiring shows I had ever seen. I'm thr…
There was a long-running gag on the sitcom Seinfeld that involved the fake film "Rochelle, Rochelle," subtitled "a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.&qu…
Disquiet, devised and directed by Anna Brenner, is a sixty minute collaboration by the acting ensemble and part of the undergroundzero festival going on downtown right now. It is a slice-of-…
Let's see… a rich politician who built his fortune and famously noble career by selling privileged information for investment profit stands to lose it all if his dirty buried secret is rev…
Dan Fishback's The Material World is a funny look at why people want revolution, love, Kabbalah, and other things. This is the second play of a critically-acclaimed series (although it can b…
Are you trapped in the debt square of healthcare, education, housing and credit card debt? If you are like millions of other debt-laden New Yorkers, the DEBT! Performance Lecture Series migh…
I'm in agreement, often passionate agreement, with almost all of the sentiments, convictions, and frustrations that underlie Everywhere Theatre Group's Flying Snakes in 3-D: That theatre is …
Trace Of Purple Sadness, a solo movement piece in this year's undergroundzero Festival, resembles an art installation one might see occupying a room in a gallery. The design elements are min…
The feeling of a cold hand on your shoulder in the dark. Arm hair gently raising off of goose-bumped skin. A twinge of dread mingled with excitement in the pit of your stomach. The exhilarat…
A jazz journey through an odd antic undersea of horny fish and tripped-out crustacean musicians created by the band Talibam! and Sam Kulik at Incubator Arts, Discover AtlantASS is probably b…
American Stare is a hard look at a number of conflicts we as a nation are engaged in now: the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. The community versus the corporation. The expedient versus the …
The "so bad it's good" genre of entertainment is an acquired taste. But its fans (and I'm among them) are especially devoted--the more stilted the acting, the more florid the writing, and th…
I really liked Dogs of Oklahoma, one of the shows playing in the Brick Theater's Democracy Festival. A lot. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it may be one of the most fun shows I've see…
The roadside motel, a familiar structure in the landscape of Americana, is the setting for Peggy Stafford's new play Motel Cherry, which serves as the vehicle for a group of vastly disparate…
Pulitzer-winning playwright Paul Zindel's 1971 piece And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little has been revived by Long View Theater. It is a refreshingly complex psychological portrait of three sist…
Out in Hamilton Heights in the middle of the City College of New York, New Haarlem Arts Theatre is offering a sincere and affecting revival of August Wilson's 1982 masterpiece Ma Rainey's Bl…
"Nobody stays dead in Tijuana" says a one-eyed TV salesman in a voice so gruff it could saw wood. Indeed, the living and dead should take heed of Aztec Economy's incantations in their bizarr…
Dating, Depression and Dirtbags: A Love Story is a one-woman show written and performed by Elza Zagreda (Corn Bread and Feta Cheese, Letters from Kosovo) and directed by Joan Kane (one of ny…
I don't know what it means to "confess your bubble," even after seeing Matthew Freeman's new theater piece of that title at the Democracy Festival. I guess it has something to do w…
The Public Theater's new outdoor production of William Shakespeare's classic comedy As You Like It proves what an indestructible summer institution they have built over the years: it is impo…
A cab driver’s union meeting contemplating a strike interspersed with scenes of individuals connected to the union and their interpersonal conflicts, as well as other scenes resulting …
Six superb performances are the highlight of David Adjmi's 3C, an absurdist farce that turns the 1970s sitcom Three's Company--and the sitcom proper--on its ear as he attempts to explore the…
PBS recently commissioned a remix of that pied piper of children's television, Mr. Rogers, singing about what he called the "Garden of Your Mind." Its popularity (the video has gotten almost…
The semi autobiographical Love Goes To Press was written just after Word War II by Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) and Virginia Cowles (1910 " 1983), two seasoned American war correspondents who…
It's always risky to do an adaptation of a great classic. The Wizard of Oz, is certainly one of them. So I was nervously excited to see Haberdasher Theatre's new take on this iconic work…
