Tag Archives: off-off-Broadway

A stage adaptation of Clarice Lispector's stream-of-consciousness debut novel boasts a fine lead performance by Sarah Lemp, but sadly is not a page-turner.

A mixed experience awaits at the Flea Theater's retrospective of plays by the influential Mac Wellman.

Miranda Haymon's dramatization of Franz Kafka's short story aims to adapt Kafka's conceptual horror to present-day racist mass incarceration.

In Gina Femia's new comedy, girls in a Catholic high school wrestle with the conflicting rights and wrongs of the Church, the permissive society outside, and their own developing minds.

The tempestuous story of Shakespeare's Sycorax, the witch present only in name in 'The Tempest'

Intermittently funny and unevenly powerful, Mark Chrisler's play 'Worse Than Tigers' is amusingly absurdist and patently symbolist yet on another level grittily real.

This New Light Theater Project premiere is perceptively imagined, lovingly staged, beautifully acted, and definitely different.

A deeply personal story of love, weakness, and venality, 'The Sea Concerto' addresses wider issues too, often with penetrating clarity.

Rather than rehashing what's wrong with 'Chess,' I'll describe why it's still possible to enjoy the Gallery Players' production. The music is perhaps the most advanced artistic evolution of glossy '80s pop. And while I'm sure there are some curmudgeons out there who weren't fans of ABBA's sunny sound, Andersson and Ulvaeus were brilliant songwriters, master craftsmen not only of shiny dance tunes but also of lovely songs of love and loss.

With just four chairs and a keyboard director Scott Guthrie leads a full-tilt cast of five crisply through the sharp and funny series of twists and turns that make this epitome of self-referential shows shine.