OFF-OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Puppets! At HERE! Phantom Limb presents THE FORTUNE TELLER in all of its gothic glory. From the cell phone announcement until the curtain call, the audience is completely in the capable, tiny wooden hands of Erik Sanko's marionettes. This classic morality tale manages to evoke a playful morbidity; i...

Year-old theater company, The Seeing Place opened their latest production last week. The 50 year old play by John Osborne called LOOK BACK IN ANGER is a surprising choice for a young ensemble, but theater-goers will see it is one that perfectly showcases the range of this talented group....

Fans of the poet will enjoy Sylvia Plath's one-act staged by Robert Shaw at the 59/59 theater, but perhaps not for its unique interpretation. For THREE WOMEN, the words are the real stars....

Linda Lovelace, born Linda Boreman, was nicknamed (and not ironically) 'Miss Holy Holy' in high school. The same school from which she graduated exactly six years before she starred in a short bestiality film entitled, 'Dogarama,' in 1971. The next year, Linda Lovelance became a house-hold name in t...

NOW CIRCA THEN follows the story of two historical re-enactors, history buff and New York native Gideon and the thoroughly modern Margie, a new-comer to the city, who work together at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The two play Julian and Josephine Glockner, a pulled-from-t...

Boomerang Theatre Company presents 'Endless Summer Nights' by company Artistic Director Tim Errickson, a bittersweet romance about the paths not taken....

Set in the turn of the century Russian countryside, Uncle Vanya captures the idle and by contrast, the toil of country life. The professor (Ed Schultz) and his young wife Yelena (Lauren Kelston) descend upon the estate owned by the family of his dead wife - namely, his daughter Sonya and his brother...

Trevor, played by the talented Rebecca Henderson, is an artist most famous for presenting enlarged photographs of a dead woman mangled in the wreckage of a car accident. Years later, the public awaits Trevor's latest work, but a mysterious FBI man with a missing eye (Danny Mastrogiorgio) suspects so...

Horse Trade Theater Group's production of DONNIE AND THE MONSTERS by Robert J. Gibbs and directed by Heidi Grumelot explores the pubescent escapades of the woefully 'uncool' Donnie (Richard Altmanshofer) as he navigates P.E. class, Lunch, bullies - and monsters....

70's nostalgia is no slouch market. But I couldn't help feeling like Platinum (the newly revised 1978 musical) at the Fringe didn't really capitalize on that. ...

All you have to say is "Angels in America," and I'm there. Thankfully, When Last We Flew, Harrison David Rivers' riff on Kushner's great epic delivers in pulling the heartstrings of people who feel the same way. Not to mention that it's a perfectly timed precursor to the highly anticipated New York ...

TOSOS revives The Five Lesbian Brothers' 1993 satire 'The Secretaries', about a murderous cult of women working at a lumber mill....

In Tom Jacobson's meta-theatrical 'The Twentieth-Century Way' two actors play a game of shifting parts when they are hired as bait to entrap homosexuals in 1914 California....

Jeff Bienstock's new musical 'The Morning After/The Night Before' is an amusing confection about reconstructing lost memories after a blackout at a party....

Jim Tierney's new play 'Banshee of Bainbridge' is a disturbing play about racial tensions in the 1980s Bronx, as seen through the eyes of a confused and naive Irish-American man abandoned in a world changing too quickly for him....

Jake Oliver's new musical comedy 'Viva Los Bastarditos!' is an hilarious romp that references everything from Zorro to Scooby-Doo, with a tongue-in-cheek witty style....

Suspended Cirque has taken trapeeze performance and integrated it with acrobatics, music, dance, theater, and circus to create a new blend of entrancing entertainment. With Swingin' At Jacks, the group time-travels back to 1949, taking the audience with them to Jack's Place which is, of course, the ...

2004 is hardly ancient history. Sure, things have changed in this country, but in many ways we're still feeling the remnants of the previous administration. We don't need it treated like a relic, or a chapter in the proverbial textbook....

AR Gurney's Love Letters has become a staple of community and regional theaters, its simplicity and minimalism (performed by two actors reading their scripts from music stands) appealing to producers and actors alike. ...

DMTheatrics' American Shakespeare Factory presents the theatrical premiere of 'Two Gentlemen of Lebowski', Adam Bertocci's viral internet parody of 'The Big Lebowski', as writ in the style of William Shakespeare....

Kill The Band is half concert and half Off-off Broadway show running at Under St. Mark's as part of the Frigid New York Festival. Revolving around the band (of the same name) the show coincides with the group's first CD release, which is given free with each ticket purchase....

Karen Finley's solo performance of The Jackie Look is a narrative told by a resurrected Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis....

'Anyone for a Classy Threesome: A Night of Multimedia Adaptations!' is an evening of one act plays currently being produced by JustASK Productions. The individual plays are entitled: 'Spinner Spirits Presents Showpiece Theatre Starring Rex McDeevit' by P. Case Aiken III, '1,001 Peorian Nights' by Ad...

If you have ever spent an afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and had the opportunity to study some of the sketches done by Michelangelo Buonarroti or Leonardo Da Vinci you will be able to understand the feeling that accompanies seeing a lesser work by a creative genius. The drawings are fas...

Too Little Too Late is the first theatrical venture from Red Elevator Productions. Featuring original and premiere short plays from six of the most promising young writers on the New York theater scene, the show deals with the disconnections that we face in the modern world....