618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
Tiffany Antone's new play In the Company of Jane Doe is built around a terrific premise: what if a stressed-out, over-extended, fast-tracking businesswoman (like the play's eponymous Jane Do…
There's something quintessentially American about The Orange Person, a celebration of individuality, small town life, and joyful story-telling created by Jeremy Bloom, Laura Dunn, and Brian …
Theresa Buchheister is a playwright, director and co-founder of Title:Point. She is also a performer and has worked in various venues in an around New York City. Sarah Graalman is a storytel…
Degeneration X, a new multimedia play created by Leah Bachar (author) and Meredith Edwards (director), uses live action and pre-recorded video to tell the truly gripping story of Xavier, a y…
Stolen Chair, one of my favorite indie theater companies, is offering a unique performance event this spring/summer at Lady Mendl's, an eating and drinking establishment located in a townhou…
"Watch your step" the guy at the box office said, "it's dark in the 1800s." I made my way down into the basement of the Lower East Side bar Fontana's, where the tinny sound of traditional Ir…
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of his most frequently produced comedies. There are many reasons for this. The play is well balanced with some earnest sincerity couple…
The Lower East Side is seedy again in Live-in Theater's unique, interactive crime show The Lombardi Case 1975. If you don't remember this side of the neighborhood, you will have fun walking …
New York apartment dwellers usually share their buildings with lots of characters. Frank Blocker has taken the liberty of rolling 18 characters into a funny one-man show, Stabilized Not Cont…
What I truly enjoyed the most about pool (no water): it is a piece of theatre. Playwright Mark Ravenhill creates a series of large metaphors, and expresses them through visual symbols and po…
Apple Core Theatre Company makes a significant contribution to the current season with their presentation of Ken Kaissar's absurdist satire A Modest Suggestion. Kaissar, born in Israel, educ…
The Peripherals, The Talking Band's new musical/rock concert/performance art work, written and composed by company co-founder Ellen Maddow, is a celebration of the impulse to make art on yo…
Self-hatred has greatly influenced the four male lead characters in Del Shores' play Southern Baptists Sissies. They may very well have remained where they grew up, in Dallas ("the buck…
The Runner Stumbles is at its essence a story of forbidden love encased in a murder mystery. Loosely based on real events (the details of which sound fascinating), a priest is accused of kil…
It is 1917. Alice Paul has been arrested for leading her group of women in picketing the White House. Two generations after Susan B. Anthony's efforts, they still want the vote. They carry s…
Perhaps the only event more devastating than one person losing his or her soulmate is that of a child losing their parents. In The Secret Garden, both tragedies occur, resulting in the play'…
Leap of Faith, based on a 1992 "dramedy" film with Steve Martin, is a feel-good musical highly reminiscent of The Music Man (with a splash of Sister Act and The Rainmaker). Energetic and wit…
Early in the first act of Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new Broadway musical written around the songs of George and Ira Gershwin currently playing at the Imperial Theater, there's a number …
Patricia Buckley's Evolution is a pleasure to watch: a well-executed, elegant piece of theatrical craft in all its production elements, from Buckley's performance to director Michele Chivu's…
Where has The President been all my life? Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar wrote Egy, kettö, három in the late 1920s; Sidney Howard's translation One, Two, Three was presented …
Kevin R. Free is an actor, writer, musician and composer. He has performed on television, off-Broadway and regionally. Kevin has performed in concerts, and can be heard on recordings and au…
We may have lost our innocence at the point when we stopped being literal and began to explain our world in abstract terms, but were we ever really that innocent in the first place? We can l…
There's no need to be up on NFL history to enjoy Headstrong at the Ensemble Studio Theater. Under the guise of a tense family stand-off between a father and daughter, the play is ultimately …
Deinde is a Latin word meaning "next"; August Schulenburg's brilliant new science fiction play DEINDE speculates about what might be next for our species as we evolve, with the aid…
Home in Her Heart is part of annual Left Out Festival, which is devoted to emerging LGBT theater, so it comes as no surprise that Jimmie, the 50-year-old white tap dancing cross-dresser, and…
