If it's offbeat revues you're after, make a beeline to the short-run Street Singer: Celebrating the Life of Edith Piaf at 42West Nightclub, and make it fast. Tonight's performance (May 16) …
Dinner With the Boys, written by Dan Lauria and at the Acorn, is a harmless enough comedy about the Mafia today--not...
As National Small Business Week draws to a close, there is no time like the present to reflect on the advice I've collected, from life experiences and an incredibly supportive mentor base, i…
As a fever ate away at my remaining brain cells last week, I was bombarded with questions about the Tony nominations. I answer two main questions below.
Lemon Anderson's Toast, printed some places as Toast, takes place in an Attica Correctional Facility cellblock during late summer 1971. The year isn't immediately specified, but it's mentio…
Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue Forever at the New York Theatre workshop--as a follow-up to,...
<![CDATA[Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue <em>Forever</em> at the New York Theatre workshop -- as a follow-up to, among other writings, her acclaimed <em…
The justified excitement surrounding the re-opening of the Whitney should not obscure the importance and vitality of numerous smaller arts institutions that are not located in the largest of…
When you compose an opera based on William Hogarth's famous and guardedly beloved series "The Rake's Progress," you build...
<![CDATA[Jonathan Miller's 1997 production of <em>The Rake's Progress</em>, revived at the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time since 2003, and around for only two addi…
It's been said that theater emanating from repressed societies is the most pungent. You certainly believe it's the god's honest truth at Trash Cuisine, which the Belarus Free Theatre -- free…
I first saw Beth Malone three years ago in a tiny theater in Hell's Kitchen performing a solo show. The actor, who billed herself as "part dude, part lady... all lesbian," examined…
If there's one thing Susan Stroman's new production of The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera House isn't,...
It's unusual for stars or directors to have over two shows a season -- even two is quite an accomplishment. One of the reasons...
Synchronicity can be a scary, shocking and ominously timely thing. Only days after Barack Obama apologizes for a drone killing hostages held by al Qaeda in Pakistan, George Brant's Grounded…
It's a treat to see a serious new musical with top flight talent involved. But it's a real luxury getting to see it twice. When Fun Home debuted at the Public, it opened to almost universal …
Everybody knows about gang comedies, most often as television series. Something less talked about, if ever talked about, are...
Not enough. An interesting show, to be sure; but in this crowded April, with at least ten intriguing new productions on view, I wonder whether this Visit is quite worth the visit.
Something's rotten on the stage of the St. James, and it smells like a hit.
While no one aspires to be "that guy" -- a poor collaborator and a weak leader who disrespects their colleagues and undermines the health of the company -- these behaviors unfortun…
In the throes of fighting for her life, Margolin revels in vivid memories of her youth, unscheduled raptures far from the enforced multitasking of today. And where she now finds herself is w…
Before the lights go down at the Doctor Zhivago start, the tall, dark Broadway Theatre curtains are parted maybe six or eight feet. Filling the space between them is a compilation of grey c…
Other than the people who, I don't know, get a show up every day, the Tony nominators are pretty much the most important people in theater. But who are they? And when do they recuse themselv…
What do you get when you cross Noel Coward's Private Lives with the Cole Porter-Samuel Spewack-Bella Spewack Kiss Me, Kate? You get cross. That's what you get.
With Living on Love opening tonight, I thought it was a good time to write about the resurgence of Williamstown...