618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
From This Day Forward
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Eleven years and a few months ago, I said–in public, without thinking much about it–”nytheatre.com will review every show in the New York International Fringe Festival this…
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THE SILVER CORD, one of the most successful plays of the 1926-27 Broadway season, centers on a domineering matriarch who is pathologically close to her two adult so…
Q & A with Kimberly Faye Greenberg. Currently premiering her new Fanny Brice Solo Show in NYC March 5th.
It's that time of year again, when nytheatre.com celebrates a group of individuals and companies who have made a significant contribution to the indie theatre landscape in NYC. This is the n…
Sowa's Red Gravy is an expertly written, wildly entertaining celebration of the tall tales and colorful personalities that make humans so wonderfully unpredictable.
Oxygen is a devised performance piece that explores movements originated from breathing. Against a background of multiple sheets of white painted plastic five actors create multiple narrativ…
There's a famous quote from a Brecht poem: "In the dark times, will there also be singing? There will also be singing about the dark times." Which is a pretty good capsule descript…
I cannot recall the last time that I was surprised by theatre. I've been recently impressed, moved, dismayed, excited, mesmerized... But truly surprised? Not lately and not often. I did not …
I Love Bob, the newest theater creation from Parallel Exit, is a fun hybrid of silent slapstick comedy and tap ballet that feels both contemporary and timeless. It takes place in modern-day…
Tin Bucket Drum is a piece of theater brought from South Africa to New York by the Horse Trade Theater Group in conjunction with the South African Imewbu Trust. It is ostensibly a one-woman …
Black Milk, by Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev (translated by Sasha Dugdale) and directed by Michel Hausmann, chronicles the lives of small-time crook Lyovchik and his pregnant wife Poppe…
Every once in a while an event comes along that changes your standards. In 2009 after witnessing the beauty and power of Mac Rogers' Universal Robots (an under-appreciated masterpiece that s…
One reason that I'm happy to be a theatre reviewer is that it provides me with the opportunity and incentive to see shows that I might otherwise miss out on. Swing State, an entry in this ye…
Historically, much has been made of Christianity's rise from oppressed minority to political dominance"ascetics being fed to lions in service of pagan bloodlust and what-not. Less has been s…
The title grabs you. The name of Annah Feinberg's new play, The Beautiful Beautiful Sea Next Door, evokes a deep longing for the ocean that stirs the imagination. And for awhile, it seems li…
The Drilling Company delivers a modern, sassy version of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Hamilton Clancy, kicking off the 2012 season of Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot. This adapta…
How Deep is the Ocean?, the sweet new musical by jazz artist Peter Cincotti and his playwright sister Pia, is something of a rarity in the New York Musical Theatre Festival: it's a slight li…
Once again a new work developed at Mabou Mines challenges and delights its audience with innovative and compelling theatre. Cho H Cho presents an explosive commentary on our current social c…
After we have exhausted all other forms of enjoyment and pleasure, including music and sex, and with so much time to waste, we have finally arrived at the perversion of food. I know a number…
A so-sweet-you might-get-diabetes musical about pursuing your life's purpose, Matthew Hardy's Flambe Dreams (at NYMF) is a gloriously innocent show that has potential but might need to have …
David Auburn's Proof has, among other things, one of the neatest titles around. It sounds like an investigative mystery play, and in a sense, it is: the plot centers on the discovery of an i…
