618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
On Monday, we implemented a new version of nytheatre.com. Today I want to write about the changes we’ve made to the site, and why we made them. We had two goals in developing nytheatre…
Fate is treated skeptically in An Iliad, but for anyone who has followed the live performance career of Denis O'Hare, his presence on an empty stage at New York Theatre Workshop may feel lik…
I first discovered Tina Howe's beautiful Painting Churches in a college drama class, via the American Playhouse telecast from the mid-'80s. I was a freshman; my paternal grandfather was in t…
In a culture that glorifies youth and seeks to prevent and hide aging, it is rare that we see a show devoted entirely to women over fifty. CAP21's current production of Marrying George Cloon…
The Three Seagulls, or MASHAMASHAMASHA! is GREAT! It is so refreshing to see Chekhov presented in a vibrant, fun manner and Theatre Reconstruction Ensemble's production does a beautiful job …
Tribes made me excited about New York theatre again; I haven't been this knocked out by a play in a long time--maybe not since Our Town opened at Barrow Street Theatre under the direction of…
Rarely does a bright green, singing pear appear onstage with two world-renowned artists. That alone is reason enough to see Coosje (pronounced COH-sha), currently playing in FRIGID New York.…
Having recently gone through the experience of several deaths in my own family, I instantly recognized the horrible bizarreness of being a mourner--the obsession over what to eat/feed people…
As a native of Louisiana with many family and friends from New Orleans and the surrounding suburbs, I found The Rope in Your Hands instantly intriguing. Written and performed by Siobhan O'Lo…
Most people know the Genesis 19 story of Abraham's nephew Lot and the doomed cities Sodom and Gomorrah. But what happened between Lot and his daughters after his wife looked back and became …
More than anything else, Breathe, Love, Repeat stands as an elegy for Suzen Murakoshi's mother"a woman with whom Murakoshi clearly had a loving, complex, fraught relationship and who died in…
Do you "Dream of Electric Sheep"? Have you read Snow Crash? Is Metropolis in your Netflix que? A fan of Louise Brooks perhaps? In the tradition of retelling myths, this sci-fi noir uses elem…
Zack, an 85 year old man who’s into sexual games of the S & M category, has been dumped by his slightly older girlfriend for a "younger" (79) man. This is a recipe for humor that s…
Big Girls Don't Cry at this year's FRIGID New York Festival is a fun one-woman piece of clown theater from Canada. Although it has all the patter of stand up, and while Rachelle Elie may be …
Hamlet is one of the most produced of Shakespeare's play in this country. Companies perform it for both its difficulty and audience appeal. However, some feel as though it is overdone or eve…
As a new play in the FRIGID Festival notes, Craigslist has institutionalized the notion of a missed connection, with a sublist of its personals ads called just that. As a celebration, Missed…
If you've ever been an assistant, or if you've ever had a high-pressure/low-paying job, or just a horribly obnoxious boss, you may quickly find yourself developing a severe case of apoplexy …
While it's named after the Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical-realism novel Love in the Time of Cholera, it's difficult to find the same obvious magic operating in the world of Nicole Pandolfo's…
Githa Sowerby caused a major cultural sensation when, in 1912, London’s Royal Court Theatre produced Rutherford and Son, her first play. Not only was the work greeted with universal ac…
If you're a parent, daredevil stuntman Evel Knievel is probably not the person you want topping your child's list of heroes. But that's exactly the case in Big Plastic Heroes, the solo show …
Sandrine Lafond's solo show Little Lady is exquisitely executed and utterly esoteric. In this clown-based movement theatre piece, Lafond depicts a character that appears to be part clown, pa…
If you think that a sunny day is enough to cure The Terrible Manpain of Umberto MacDougal you may not fully understand the depths of his "manpain." Rainy days are easy for this woebegone Iri…
Poe-Dunk by Kevin McHale is a delightful trip through all the Edgar Allen Poe stories you might not have read yet. You will really see how many-sided Mr. Poe was; did you know he anticipated…
Charming and cheerful as one of Jane Austen’s novels, Afternoon Tea with Jane Austen is a delightful sixty-minute introduction into Austen’s life. Writer/performer Tali Brady has…
Parsing the title of Scratch & Pitz Burlesque & Variety Hour tells you nearly everything you need to know about this entertaining show at FRIGID New York.
