THE COLORS OF OUR LIVES red, black & GREEN: a blues is art at its best and most purposeful; a visceral, engaging narrative that combines theatre, dance, music, spoken word and visual art…
A CRY TO CARE The 85-minutes of this electrifying protest play begin with a lone microphone suddenly erupting in an ear-splitting feedback. The noise is intolerable, no less than what it ush…
FUNNY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH Hamish Linklater's very funny, sharp and tender new play The Vandal begins on a cold winter night as a down-on-her-luck middle-aged woman waits for a bus on a…
IN THE SHADOW OF STARS David Wiener’s ten-year-old, never-before-produced play Cassiopeia needs work. As usual at Boston Court, this experimental piece has received a production so…
A GAMBLE WHICH DOESN’T ALWAYSÂ PAY OFF Flashing, fluorescent lights, glitzy blazers, showgirls galore, and an immodest display of drama and decadence are the background for… wa…
PUPPET SHOW Ethan Lipton's Luther received rave reviews when it premiered in New York last June, yet it enjoyed only a brief run. So it makes sense that Steep Theater would want to try out t…
WALKING THE TIGHTROPE STRIKES A PERFECT BALANCE AND SOARS TO THEATRICAL PERFECTION Lab24, the resident experimental theater company of the 24th STreet Theatre [sic], has scored a stupendous …
GOTH MEETS GIRL During the first five minutes of Lovesick I was beginning to think I had ended up at a school play. The acting was highly exaggerated, the props looked like elementary school…
A RAUCHNY REUNION FOR THE PEANUTS GANG Set at Charlie Brown's funeral in modern-day Los Angeles, Brendan Hunt's raunchy Peanuts parody, Absolutely Filthy, is an admirably smutty comedy which…
A DAISY CHAIN OF DEAD ENDS MAKES FOR INVIGORATING THEATER Shattered Globe Theatre has uncovered yet another tailspinning drama to live up to their name. British playwright Lucinda Cox shows …
GROWING UP AND GROWING OLD Engaging, comfortable, realistic, gripping, and heart-tugging " all these tags apply equally to story, language, script and performances in American Conservatory T…
BONDAGE IN EGYPT AND VIRGINIA Of the 150,000 Jews who lived in the U.S during the Civil War, twice as many (6,000) fought for the Union as for the Confederacy. Less well-known is the fact th…
A SOBERING AND SUBSTANTIAL CAT Why do we tend to stick with the intolerable? When slashing at those closest to us becomes our way of filling inner emptiness or expressing a family bond, even…
RUSHIN' RUSSIAN Track 3 at the Bootleg Theater is a peculiar sort. Richard Alger's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic Three Sisters is better described as a transmogrification of the text…
A CIRCUS BUT NO BREAD The theater space is a cavernous church gym with lousy acoustics. The intrepid thespians at Red Tape Theatre transform it into the title setting, an arena of death with…
OPEN THIS SNAKE CAN AND ALL THAT POPS OUT IS WHINE AND CHEESE Three BFFs get together to commiserate over their fates in the world premiere of The Snake Can, Kathryn Grant's (Hermetically Se…
RELIABLE CROWD-PLEASER ONCE AGAIN, WELL, PLEASES THE CROWD Puccini's La Bohème has succeeded numerous times at Lyric Opera since its first performance in 1954, but their newest production i…
A UNIQUELY ENTERTAINING MISSED OPPORTUNITY The concept of Happy Face Sad Face is an intriguing one that consists of two one act plays; the first a drama, the second a comedy. Now before you …
A SPECTACULAR AND FASCINATING JOURNEY IN WHICH THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM Cameras have evolved from room-sized camera obscuras, to the box-like contraption of the nineteenth century, to the…
THE SLIPPERY SIGNIFICANCE OF GREAT AND GOOD A person's true character is revealed in crisis. The road to triumph is filled with battles lost and sacrifices made, but overall it is worth the …
AVOIDABLE MADNESS There’s a show running right now at a smaller venue of a state-of-the-art West Side arts complex. It’s a foreign import, a one-woman show that, in a differe…
GOTHIC OPERA You will notice in the first five paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" that the storyteller's description of an ancient decomposing castle, surrounde…
If The Concert is any indication, than the contemporary musical theater scene is overwhelmingly characterized by pop rock stylings and a crazy high belt. Celebrating the launch of the Direct…
A PLAYFULLY PROFOUND MASTERPIECE "Oh my God, I can't believe we're doing this. Okay …" Warm laughter of recognition spread across the audience. This thought had undoubtedly crossed all our…
BEST NOT TO SEE THIS PLAY ON A FIRST DATE The Raven Theatre is celebrating 30th Anniversary Season with the return of Rebecca Gilman's Boy Gets Girl, which debuted at the Goodman Theatre in …