Apologies for the delayed review of New York City Opera's world premiere of Ted Rosenthal's Dear Erich. The sold-out performances were January 9-13, 2019 at the National Yiddish Theatr…
The Day I Became Black is a heart opener, a mind shifter, a bridge builder. Bill Posley's life-storytelling is the antidote to desensitizing discourse overload. Today we are inundated wit…
The Metropolitan Opera season is over and summer festivals featuring opera (Bard, Caramoor, Mostly Mozart, not to mention Saratoga Springs and Tanglewood for long weekends) are months away, …
 With over 7.5 million daffodils planted by 100 000 volunteers in NYC and 194,000 tulips in Central Park " spring is definitely in the air. To celebrate the arrival of this burst of colo…
The stormy start to May has served as a fitting setting for the debut of The Public Theater's Mobile Unit production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, that washed up on its home shores near Asto…
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Cheering his name three times from the rafters wouldn't be nearly enough to glorify this utterly fantastic stage adaptation. Praise the dark forces tha…
 A show that's sold old since previews is pretty much reviewer-proof, but, if possible, try to catch Mrs. Murray's Menagerie  at Ars Nova at Greenwich House  (27 Barrow Stree…
NUMBNESS: CHAPTER 2, breach birthed into being by One-Eighth Theater is a quick firing collage of absurdist clues to find your way through the maze of each moment. Reality, rules, line…
ENTANGLED is the most relevant work you can witness in the 21st century. It deposits you into the epicenter of the hurricane, the whirlwind, the tsunami and keeps you churning as all around …
FRUITING BODIES, a new play by Sam Chanse, is a call to the wild parts of ourselves that have been starved of oxygen. It's a hunt to find the elusive, the dangerous, the long buried…The fa…
Lecture, exhortation, dissertation, harangue. These are all synonyms for "talking", which is what the subject of actor/director/playwright Tim Blake Nelson's new play Socrates " now playing …
Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) April 16 marked the centennial of choreographer Merce Cunningham's birth. His artistic legacy is that his modern dances, many set to music by his creative…
A selection of European stage readings in NYC, Bohemian National Hall, May 10-12, 2019 In spring 2019, the REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH theater festival, honoring Vaclav Havel, will add a weekend of …
Obsession, fixation, unrequited love, chasing the muse and being haunted by a longing that can never fully be realized or consummated, but nevertheless continues to ignite flames of desire a…
THE DAY I BECAME BLACK is currently running at The SoHo Playhouse to great acclaim and is created, written and performed by Bill Posley (CBS's "The Neighborhood," Netflix's "Glow") and direc…
 SHAREHOLDER VALUE is a fast paced docu-style drama from playwright Tom Attea. Or it could be aptly titled, "The Stockmarket Crash " for Dummies" or "A Change of Heart". We are pl…
And some of the best people in town. Now I know what the dirty foreigners feel like. What is this, Russia? We don't have to listen to talk like that. You've only got to hint whatever's fit t…
Director Sean Hagerty has crafted a sensational gift for you " a production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" that transports you to a sensorium of theatrical perfection. Part of the success…
"There are some who think Judy Holliday was the greatest comic actress of all time, and some who think she was simply the greatest comic actress of the century." That's David Shipman in The …
"We did it!" was heard behind the curtain following Ballet Hispánico's world premiere of Edwaard Liang's El Viaje (The Journey). And yes, they sure did in a creatively divers…
There's only one other full-size Broadway musical revival in town right now, that thing uptown about Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, so fans of golden age musicals had better hie themselv…
 Our primate friends and relatives have been taking it on their pronounced chins lately. The orange orangutan resemblance to the president was raucously noted in Adam McKay's bril…
The two hardest types of theatrical production to pull off are polar opposites in complexity. On the one hand, there is the classic Broadway musical that requires a range of talents and has …
Frog and Peach Theatre Company presents an accessible Twelfth Night stripped of any artifice or extraneous "concept" to deliver an enthusiastic romp through one of Shakespeare's most hilario…
If New York City is considered "The Dance Capital of the World," than Utah is "The United State of Dance". For 50+ years it's been home to Ballet West, who made a very strong impression …