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If you leave Tiny Beautiful Things, which opened last night at The Public's Newman Theater, without having wept along with the rest of the audience for at least a few moments, you make up th…
Summer is over. And while that may mean an end of Shakespeare in the Park and several other Off-Broadway productions, there’s still plenty of theater to enjoy in the fall. Trying to li…
Blood Boundary, a play set in 1920s Oklahoma right before the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, depicts a family with Cherokee roots but different skin tones, and what that means to themselves and each …
"What's it gonna be then, eh?" Well well well, one scenario could be a Hi-NRG music video featuring the dancing droogs. Another, the once seen never forgotten Pacino movie Cruising. Such ass…
In this day and age, writing a musical in rhyming iambic pentameter is a little gutsy. To pull it off, you’re going to need a good playwright and a darn good cast. Happily, The York Th…
Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil, the cinema musical at St. Luke’s Theatre penned and performed by the Indiggo Twins, has a lot going for it. For one thing, the twins themselv…
I shouldn't be surprised that an offering at New York Theatre Workshop would be an exceptional piece of theater, but Amy Herzog's Mary Jane directed by Anne Kauffman, transcends even the hig…
It's tempting to want to distance yourself from the main character of Max Posner's new play, The Treasurer. Referred to only as the Son, he's a hardworking geologist, a loving husband, and a…
Brilliant Traces, written by Cindy Lou Johnson and directed by David Newer, is a love story set in a remote cabin in Alaska during a whiteout between a woman who is running away because she …
The sets are gorgeous, the costumes are gorgeous and frankly, Annette O'Toole is really, really gorgeous, too. Oh, sure, they've tried to tone her down, as the acidulous and earthy Mrs. Fish…
In John Doyle's pared down As You Like It, opening Classic Stage Company's 50th season, the forest of Arden is not filled with trees but rather a grove of globe-shaped lights hanging f…
The Arctic Group’s Pomegrenade, written and directed by Ran Xia and performed at IRT, a cozy little space a stone’s throw from the Hudson River, is a Chuck Mee-style reimagining …
Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass are the most fun choreographers ever. They may also be the most fun people ever, but I haven’t met everyone so who can say. What you may miss at their …
Pop music is often judged and misunderstood for its lack of substance and depth, as if catchiness and joy were any less important than the depictions of pain and loss explored in other music…
Rinde Eckert defies the conventions of form and structure with his boundary-pushing works which combine opera, musical theatre, film and dance. As a librettist he's reinvented works of liter…
We seem to experience bursts of elation whenever some whiz-bang gerontologist suggests that human life can be extended in ways previously considered impossible. It's as if we've all been off…
Andy Halliday's new play at Theatre for the New City, Up the Rabbit Hole, is a tale sweetly told, autobiographical in nature and well cast (kudos to David McDermott). Evenly directed by G…
TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) was an Off-Broadway theater company run by the inimitable Doric Wilson, whose passing was felt deeply by the Off- and Off-Off Broadway theatre community he …
In Petie, a new play written by and starring Lori Fischer and directed by Martha Banta, the dark mistakes that haunt us never leave the downstage corner of our minds. This well-performed, th…
Puppeteer James Godwin is bringing back his critically acclaimed show The Flatiron Hex to New York, where it’s running at HERE Arts Center through the end of September. We caught up wi…
After the success of the first installment of The Joshua Show, puppeteer Joshua Holden wanted to spread more kindness and good vibes to audience members of all ages, which is why he’s …
Rachel Tucker is making her Feinstein’s/54 Below solo debut this week. We caught up with her via e-mail to learn what she has in store for the shows, playing beloved characters, and ho…
TESLA, a multidisciplinary opera about inventor Nikola Tesla, who lived around the turn of the 19th century, premieres this week at SoBe Arts in Miami Beach, Florida. Written by Carson Kievm…
When his two guardians ship eleven-year-old Edgar Allan off to boarding school, he couldn’t be happier. It’s a chance to sharpen his skills and gain an unparalleled educat…
The tortured history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is transmitted through Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula's Sur Les Traces De Dinozard (In Search of Dinozord) at NYU Sk…
