With a certain and subdued beauty, NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE softens the blow that expectations, memory and loss deal to a contemporary mother/son relationship. Even as vivid descriptions of remembered sights, smells, tastes and textures fill their liminal space, a void of grief remains.... (more...)
Off Broadway enthusiasts are increasingly adding the tag South Broadway to denote the fact that first rate productions are being mounted by creative and savvy theater owners in their audience friendly state of the art venues in South Florida. The Wick Theatre In Boca Raton is one of the newest and ... (more...)
Written/performed by Valerie David and directed by Padraic Lillis and Maris Heller, THE PINK HULK is just about to finish its run at the 14th Street Y. Valerie's one-woman show was accepted into 26 different festivals in both the U,S. and Europe over the course of 2 1/2 years, and has received quite... (more...)
In NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, Chad Beckim shows how a young woman's addiction to opioids affects not only her, but those who seek to help her. Impeded by her own doubts and insecurities, in a town where people are admired for their efforts to leave, the downward spiral of her life pulls in those who had... (more...)
'It's selfish to assume nature blooms just for you.'
The poetic monologue which opens Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die is the perfect tone-setter for Lily Houghton's latest production.... (more...)
Written by Dann Berg and Avital Asuleen (Director/Choreographer), THE FLOORSHOW intersperses song-and-dance numbers into the dramatization of the personal and professional hurdles that an all-female performance troupe faces in 1951 New York City. Moving between onstage and backstage at The Gilded Pa... (more...)
You might call John Kevin Jones the 'resident author' of East 4th Street's 1832 landmark Merchant's House Museum, though not in the traditional sense.... (more...)
Director Lauren Hlubny takes the idea of violence and molds it into something theatrically beautiful with her play Thoughts and Prayers, produced by Danse Theatre Surreality and now in performances at TADA! Youth Theatre.... (more...)
How to describe the oratorically dense, frequently hysterical and mind-buzzingly creative The Invention of Tragedy? How does Shakespeare sound to a young child? 'Let there be a dragon of trees and washing without wash cloths bags cats wardrobes bungle things and other things traps and twerps and w... (more...)
When you are a very lucky theatergoer, a play can transport you to a different time and place and age. Decky Does A Bronco is one such experience. A heavy metal playground swing set is placed on a raised stage of green carpeting. On the walls there are chalk drawings. You can see and more import... (more...)
When I sat down to see The Chaos Theory of Now, I found the pre-show music selections to be quirky. Barbara Mandrell's 'I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool.' Thomas Dolby's 'She Blinded Me With Science.' k.d. lang's 'Constant Craving.' Turns out the song choices were spot on. The author and ... (more...)
With the not so faint wisps of fascism blowing all around the world today, artists seem compelled to paint the future. Prasad Paul Duffy has written and directed Revolutionary with Theo Grace composing the score and lyrics. This show has been selected as part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up... (more...)
Arriving at New York University's Skirball Center, I was handed two green cards. The Oedipus card contained this quote from Sophocles: 'How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth.' Heading down the stairs into the waiting lobby, the walls were adorned with inform... (more...)
Swipe, scan, pause, like. Swipe, scan, pause, like. Feel familiar? Part of the attraction and addiction to scrolling through social media is its mind-numbing repetition. A similar effect infuses the U.S. premiere of SEE YOU: a group of verbose 20-somethings vying for superior digital cultural status... (more...)
'I do not feel compelled by reason to accept this theory of evolution, nor the periodic table of elements, nor the theory of global warming, nor the supposed crimes against the Jews attributed to one Rudolf Hitler.' Bad Penny and Sincerity Forever are Mac Wellman plays originally staged in 1989 and... (more...)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the mental health condition explored in DC Fidler's play Boogieban. Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Caplan is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He now works for the military evaluating soldiers and their emotional fitness. Specialist Jason Wynsky is his newest cha... (more...)
Sure, it's a bit early in the game, but what might turn out to be the funniest scene to hit New York stages in this young theatre season occurs at the end of the first act in Jonathan Spector's sharp and empathetic social commentary, EUREKA DAY.... (more...)
Written by a father-son team (the perfect combination of doctor and composer), EMERGENCY features book, music and lyrics by Jeff Foy and Jacob Foy and is directed by Jeremy Quinn. In association with Visceral Entertainment, the production recently concluded a three-performance run at Hudson Guild a... (more...)
Rita Donatella is a struggling wannabe actress working in a science lab and donning the white coat. She's 'analyzing feces inside a rat' and declares 'I'm not loving that.' Her agent calls and her dreams are finally realized. She's going to star in a movie with an A-list actor. Waiting For Johnn... (more...)
Written and produced by Davide Ferrari and directed by Alexa Harris, a?oeSunday Dinnera?? debuts as part of the New York SummerFest Theater Festival. Originally conceived as a full-length production, Ferrari brings his audience to the table to enjoy some very entertaining Italian family antics.... (more...)
The music from 2001: A Space Odyssey opens Sea Level Rise: A Dystopian Comedy. Set in a future South Florida, this play considers a world where the ocean has risen two feet. The low lying town of Sweetwater is feeling the pain. Maria (Rebecca Smith) is on her cellphone trying to get help. Her se... (more...)
The New York Musical Festival presents a wide variety of new musicals in the form of readings, concerts, and full-scale productions. While previously scheduled to be the latter, Saturday afternoon audiences were treated to an intimate reading of Ladyship by Laura and Linda Good due to an illness in ... (more...)
This review is not about Monica Lewinsky. Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky, stars Caroline Kinsolving as the complex, archetype-defying quasi-Monica. This clever time-shifting one-act play succinctly captures the tension between holding on and letting go of one's identity in an era whe... (more...)
A White Man's Guide to Rikers Island transports the audience from the privilege and prominence of a New Jersey golf club to the cacophony and brutality of New York's Rikers Island. Occasional moments of levity stand in stark contrast to the overall gravity of the violence-laden narrative, one that e... (more...)
BWW Review: NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE Echoes Grief at Fourth Street Theatre
BWW Review: The Wick Theatre Set To Open Season With Hot Shoe Shuffle
BWW Review: Living Life to the Fullest with Valerie David's THE PINK HULK
BWW Review: The Preciousness of Life in Beckim's NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
BWW Review: Lily Houghton's OF THE WOMAN Explores Commercialized Feminism and the Goddess Within
BWW Review: World Premiere of THE FLOORSHOW at Theatre 71 by Combustion Collective
BWW Review: John Kevin Jones Bring Exquisite Chill To KILLING AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE
BWW Review: Immersive Production I CAN'T SEE Frights and Delights Manhattan
BWW Review: Actions Speak Louder Than Words in Hlubny's THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
BWW Review: Mac Wellman's mini-masterpiece THE INVENTION OF TRAGEDY at The Flea Theater
BWW Review: Thrillingly Memorable and Devastating DECKY DOES A BRONCO at The Royal Family Performing Arts Space
BWW Review: A woman uses science to comprehend America in THE CHAOS THEORY OF NOW at Theater For The New City
BWW Review: 5th Dimensional Realness is REVOLUTIONARY at Theater For The New City
BWW Review: Greek tragedies are recounted in BAD NEWS! I WAS THERE... at NYU Skirball Center
BWW Review: SEE YOU at The New Ohio Theatre from The Bridge Production Group
BWW Review: Mac Wellman's skewering of America in BAD PENNY and SINCERITY FOREVER at Flea Theater
BWW Review: Psychological aftermath of war is explored in BOOGIEBAN at 13th Street Repertory Theatre
BWW Review: A Vaccination Debate Fuels Jonathan Spector's Sharp and Empathetic Social Commentary EUREKA DAY
BWW Review: EMERGENCY Has Hearts Racing at Hudson Guild Theater
BWW Review: An actress lands the role of a lifetime (or does she?) in WAITING FOR JOHNNY DEPP at Teatro SEA
BWW Review: BWW REVIEW: FAMILY'S A HOOT IN DAVIDE FERRARI'S SUNDAY DINNER at Hudson Theater Guild
BWW Review: Florida gets squishy in SEA LEVEL RISE: A DYSTOPIAN COMEDY at Broadway Bound Theatre Festival
BWW Review: LADYSHIP Struggles to Set Sail at the New York Musical Festival
BWW Review: Identity Politics Twist in MONICA: THIS PLAY IS NOT ABOUT MONICA LEWINSKY at 59E59
BWW Review: A WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO RIKERS ISLAND at The Producers Club
