618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
It's summer in New York! Which means that once again, the best entertainment in town is free. Enter The Drilling Company's fine production of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, expertly directe…
Oscar Wilde's Salome takes the biblical story of the decapitation of John The Baptist and gives it a very sensual point of view. Salome is one of Wilde's strangest plays: he wrote it in Fren…
Who would have figured that a musical of The Silence of the Lambs would end up one of the best movie-to-musical transfers in recent memory? A Greek chorus of dancing sheep guide your way thr…
Wide Eyed Productions is currently presenting Euripides's The Trojan Women at the Kraine. The story of this play sits between the great adventure epics of Greek mythology: it takes place at …
For the eleventh time, Axis Company is presenting a new edition of their extraordinary serial Hospital, tracking the inner life of an individual in a coma. This year, the Traveller (as the c…
Tangled together in a beach house where the mood is anything but sunny.—Save!
Daniel Packard performs his unique brand of sexual healing.—Discount Offer
It is often said that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," and in Cindy Lou Johnson's play Brilliant Traces these words ring true about every aspect of her two misguided, psycho…
The Zombie epidemic has officially hit. The Undead are everywhere you look. Luckily for us, though, they're still trapped in movie theaters, on our televisions, on the pages of books and com…
The Cell and the Hive have joined creative forces to produce a new contemporary gender bending production of this classic Shakespearean play. The two couples--Helena and Demetrius, and Lysan…
The Cell/The Hive Theatre’s world premiere of Bad Evidence is here, part of a series exploring power and marriage. Terry Quinn's play can practically be summed up into three words: The…
Radiotheatre's 2nd H.P. Lovecraft Festival confines itself to only a handful of elements: a handmade sign with the company's name, a picture of Lovecraft upstage, some minimal backlights, a …
Relationships blossom in many ways. Of course, we all dream of meeting that special someone on a brisk stroll in the park, or from across the room at a party. At the end of a blown con game?…
An ever-evolving riff on a single scene (Act I, Scene IV) from Shakespeare's Richard III, set to a soundtrack of seventies and eighties hits reinterpreted by a lounge pianist, Aztec Economy'…
Through the lens of her favorite sitcoms from the '60s, '70s, and '80s, comedienne Judy Gold gives us an anthropological tour of her life in her uproarious new comedy The Judy Show: My Life …
While there are many genres that film and theatre have shared throughout their history, there are a few that have never fully made the transition one way or the other. Horror is one of these…
Lets face it, working in theater is hard, if not almost impossible at times. But to an actor with a disability, the odds are even more stacked against you. A disabled actor often finds himse…
The Berenstain Bears Live! does a spectacular job of bringing the world of Bear Country to life. This production combines three of Stan and Jan Berenstain's stories, The Berenstain Bears and…
With summer finally in full swing and the festival spirit clinging to every breeze, not to mention barbecues on every corner, the sumptuous notion of a festival celebrating roast pig is one …
David Esbjornson's production of Measure for Measure, in repertory with Daniel Sullivan's All's Well That Ends Well at the Delacorte Theatre, struggles to meld the modern and the Elizabethan…
Jaime Robert Carrillo's new play Coat Check Casanova actually feels like three plays, or at least tantalizing snippets of three plays. It's clearly an ambitious and audacious project, but it…
We've all seen our share of courtroom drama, perhaps enough to forget what justice is and what it took to win it. To jog your memory, see New Haarlem Arts Theatre's production of Blues for M…
Someone has been reading their Mamet. That's the impression that washed over me as I exited The Private Sector, now playing at Theater for the New City. That is not to say that a young write…
The New Eccentrics' Manifesto is a hit-or-miss cabaret act that asks a lot from its audience. For one, the show cannot function without willing participants, who are asked to read a story al…
A spider lady watches over acrobats as they perform stunts that could surely lead to horrible injury if done wrong. A man connected to a massive rigging system flies through the audience pre…
