You are commissioned to a project which by design is macabre, yet life-saving. Do you engage or abort?
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Theater Review (NYC): Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’ from the Faux-Real Theater Company
This production digs into the tribal roots of the ultimate cautionary tale from ancient Greece with just the collective animal energy called for.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Yo Miss!’
Judith Sloan's compelling solo show at La MaMa, 'Yo Miss!', is grounded in her experience teaching drama to underprivileged New York City high school and college students.
Read More »Theater/Cabaret Review (NYC): D’yan Forest in ‘A Broad Abroad’
In Forest's sure hands, comedy, storytelling, and song flow together into a wave of warmhearted, dirty-minded, unexpurgated humanity.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Rimbaud in New York’
Brimming with a studied outrageousness, and brushed with sentiment, the show takes a sidelong look at the pretentiousness of downtown artsiness, while reminding us – or introducing us to – the French force of nature who provoked the spirits of so many 20th century creatives.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): Sam Shepard’s ‘Buried Child’ with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
This is a magnificent production, prodigiously acted by the ensemble cast and brilliantly conceived, staged, and designed by Scott Elliott and his team. The production throbs with tension. The undercurrents vibrate throughout. Above all the character portrayals balance evenly to create a living portrait of the poignancy of human families.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Women Without Men’ by Hazel Ellis
Are women truly the fairer sex without men? Or do they fare better in the company of men?
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Dead Dog Park’ by Barry Malawer
A black thirteen-year-old, a white cop, an eyewitness account, a shattering fall. Do the facts matter when all will suffer?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘So Amazing!’ by Diana Brown – Solo Show Chronicles Cult Escape
Diana Brown digs into her own experience in a cult in her entertaining and thoughtful, if unpolished and not entirely satisfying, autobiographical solo show.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘City of Glass’ by Paul Auster, Adapted by Edward Einhorn
A phone call, a question, a proposition, a journey. The power of uncertainty becomes its own destination.
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