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Gender inequality is at the center of the public conversation like never before, and with movements like #MeToo and the Women's March constantly gaining popularity and news headlines, it sho…
Director Gus Kaikkonon and the Mint Theater's production of Hindle Wakes, written by Stanley Houghton, is both authentic to the 1912 original and speaks to issues of our time — a…
I cannot think of a time that I've seen a more prescient piece of theatre than Sheila by The Associates, playing now at The A.R.T./New York Theatres. This dedicated company of players has mo…
The Homecoming Queen marks playwright Ngozi Anyanwu's Off-Broadway debut and long may she reign! The play is a beautiful meditation on home, alienation, love, pain, and regret. It strikes…
Ladies, time to put on your party face! Smile so people you don’t like will like you! Or so women have always been told. Party Face, a clever, astute new play written by Isobel Mahon a…
Throughout the adult life of the great Russian composer Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, he fixated on one idea: his homosexuality, how to closet it and how to compensate for it. Hershey Felder's …
The opera-requiem IYOV fuses Biblical and liturgical texts with an extraordinary exploration of musical ideas from classical to folk to jazz, rock and electronics and practically all the sou…
Belgian indie band Dez Mona and Flemish B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X) wound up the 2018 Prototype Festival with an encore performance, bringing back their theatrical song cycle Sága…
Robert O'Hara's Mankind takes place in a future where women have become extinct, it's the men who are in charge of reproduction and concepts like "feminism" have become sociopolitical fossil…
Vivian Reed celebrates the legendary Lena Horne’s centennial with a series of shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below. We spoke to her about Horne’s legacy, her favorite recordings, …
Access Theater in Tribeca welcomes you to the rundown social club Caballeros Divinos in Spanish Harlem. Here you will find its proprietor is a petty criminal, and its regular customers are a…
British playwright Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes (currently at the Mint Theater Company) was written and first performed in the era when Sigmund Freud's ideas on sexuality were becoming kn…
What to do when guests bring the unwanted into your home? Especially when the unwanted is undefinable but very real and visceral, terrifying, yet unnamable. This is the terrain presented to …
The Train Theater brings a puppet show based on the beloved, Caldecott-winning children's book A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, now playing at the New Victory Theater. Every day…
Directed by Lori Petty in her New York debut, Trial opens with a young woman in a stark white room, who is overly enthusiastic when another woman briefly joins her before being whisked away …
Fellow Travelers explores the romantic relationship between two men working for the US government in the midst of the Lavender Scare, an extension of Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts that alleg…
I'm still not sure what to make of Ballyturk, Enda Walsh's play currently making its American debut at St. Ann's Warehouse. I'd also maintain, however, that while there is an often frustrati…
"What do we want to be?" This is the central question asked by the character Runt in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs. Runt was born in the same hospital at the same time as her best friend, Pig, wit…
Kyoung H. Park's PILLOWTALK centers on Buck (JP Moraga) and Sam (Basit Shittu), interracial newlyweds who are trying to find their space in a society where their existence is still a politic…
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's vivid, thought-provoking West End hit The Children has also made a big impact in New York. Now playing on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club with the original Brit…
Politics. Sex. Love. Secrets. Intrigue. Power. Betrayal. All elements you'd find in a good spy thriller are also to be found in the new opera Fellow Travelers, receiving its New York prem…
New Year's Eve, 1969. Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies, an electric psychedelic blues trio, play a legendary show at the Fillmore East in New York City. The Hendrix Project, an experimen…
The Gates: An Evening of Stories with Adam Gopnik The numbers 9 and 11 have held a special significance throughout Adam Gopnik's life as a New Yorker. They were the dimensions of the first a…
Sarah Rothenberg's exquisite A Proust Sonata: 7 Tableaux En Musique debuted January 10th at The French Institute's Florence Gould Hall, produced by Da Camera of Houston Productions. It's eas…
There is the idealized New York the world sees on film, and then there is the real New York the people live out every day. And no one lives it more fully than a young person whose greatest, …
