The six short plays comprising the LaBute New Theater Festival might have been collectively titled 'Love and Murder,' two themes clearly on the playwrights' minds.
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Theater Review (Off-Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Key Change’ by Catrina McHugh
What is the percentage of incarcerated individuals repeating their crimes based on their socioeconomic background?
Read More »Irish Repertory Theatre Hosts Memorial Honoring Brian Friel, With Gabriel Byrne and Jim Dale
As Broadway dimmed its lights for a minute on Tuesday evening in remembrance of this great soul and most unique voice of the theater, all those in the theater world understood that Friel's shoes will not be filled easily. And who better than the Irish Rep to honor him?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘A Wilder Christmas’ – Two One-Act Plays by Thornton Wilder
If you know Thornton Wilder only from 'Our Town' and perhaps 'The Skin of Our Teeth,' the two one-act plays comprising the Peccadillo Theater Company's new production may feel both familiar and strange.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘H2O’ by Jane Martin, Directed by West Hyler
Jake is an actor who has it all: success, wealth, fame, women, misery. Deborah is a devout Christian actress who feels God's presence. When these opposites meet, the explosion is inevitable.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Cuckooed’ Starring Comedian Mark Thomas
What happens when you learn a friend has betrayed you? Mark Thomas explores this theme with the true story of corporate spies in an activist group.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘texts&beheadings/ElizabethR’ by Karin Coonrod and Compagnia de’ Colombari
This avant-garde but entertaining show brings Queen Elizabeth I's personality craftily and colorfully to life using her poems, prayers, and speeches, dozens of threads stitched artfully together into a gracefully energetic mini-biography.
Read More »Theater/Dance Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Cinderella,’ a Baroque Burlesque Ballet by Company XIV
The latest dance-theater extravaganza from Austin McCormick and his scarily talented troupe transports us into a magical world of tongue-in-cheek glitz and deeply felt emotion rolled densely into a concoction of wonders.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Pondling’ by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman
When the lines blur between reality and a fantastical world created to stave off isolation and rejection, there is only one way out. But sometimes, one doesn't have to break down and let one realm or the other dominate. Sometimes there is a way out that makes much more sense.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘DESIRE,’ Six Plays Adapted from Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams's short stories are intriguing, cryptic, revelatory, and shocking in their adaptations by exceptional modern playwrights in six one-act plays. The plays embody the tides of desire and the unconscious impulses that flood our lives when least expected.
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