Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
After making its world premiere to positive reviews at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2012, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses, directed by Sam Gold, is landing in New York City this spring. Set in a small, countryside town, this dark comedy follows two suburban couples who share many things, including a[…]
From Pultizer, Tony and Oscar-wining playwright John Patrick Shanley (theater: Doubt; Film: Moonstruck) comes Outside Mullingar, a lightweight romantic comedy set in rural Ireland. The great Brian F. O’Byrne plays Anthony Reilly, a 42-year old farmer poised to inherit his father’s land – with two slight complications. His stubborn old[…]
Atkina Stathaki Actor, Director
Paul’s Case is an opera adapted from Willa Cather’s short story of the same name. It is about a teenager in Pittsburgh, PA at the turn of the 20th century who struggles to fit in and clashes with teachers and community elders. He escapes on a train to New York[…]
Jordana Williams Director, Lyricist
Meropi Peponides Dramaturge, writer
In January New York City turns into a wonderland of innovative, weird, risky, magical theater. Why? The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP; hashtag #APAPNYC) convenes a conference in New York City every January. It is a massive gathering of artistic directors and other theater managers who schedule artists to perform[…]
A new production of King Lear, starring three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella, is making its New York debut at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) this winter after a world premiere at the Chichester Festival Theatre last fall. British critics were enthusiastic of the show. The Daily Express said “Langella is extraordinary and following[…]
You might know Bryan Cranston best as Breaking Bad’s Walter White or the dad from Malcolm in the Middle, but now he is taking on a presidential role for the stage. In All The Way, a political drama premiering in New York on February 10, 2014, Cranston portrays President Lyndon[…]
The 2014 COIL Festival opens with a serious right hook. Tyson vs. Ali, a groundbreaking new multimedia play devised by innovative visual artist Reid Farrington, imagines what it would be like if the two greatest heavyweight boxers of all time – Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson – met in the ring.[…]
UPDATE, February 24, 2014 Kung Fu hasn’t officially opened yet but it’s already added more dates to its performance schedule. Tickets during the extension are $75. Original post, January 7, 2014 Celebrated playwright David Henry Hwang brings the tale of one of the greatest international icons of all time, Bruce Lee,[…]
In an international collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company, GableStage in Miami, and Ohio State University, The Public Theater presents Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, edited and directed by Tarell Alvin McCraney (The Brother/Sister Plays, Choir Boy). McCraney is The Public Theater’s newest artist-in-residence and was a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. McCraney’s adaptation[…]
Live Artery is an annual event of dance and body-based performance at New York Live Arts (New York Live Arts is the company formed by the merger of Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2011). New York Live Arts commissioned or created all of the works to[…]
Radical Evolution is a Brooklyn-based multicultural and multidisciplinary performance group. Founded by artists Beto O’Byrne and Meropi Peponides in 2011, its mission is to produce live, engaging events created to empower and encourage citizens of the 21st century to be active in their communities. Recently, it premiered The Second Decade Project, an interdisciplinary work[…]
A stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe’s famous 1959 short story of the same name, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner will have its US premiere by Atlantic Theater Company in January, 2014. Adapted by award-winning playwright Roy Williams, The Long Distance Runner is the story of Colin, a young delinquent with[…]
One of the best things to come out of FringeNYC 2013, Gertrude Stein’s SAINTS! is thankfully coming back to a second run this summer at the Abrons Center. An ode to American music, Gertrude Stein’s SAINTS! is a non-opera-esque rendition of Gertrude Stein’s unconventional librettos (yes, she wrote librettos!). Stein wrote the[…]
New this year to New York City’s January festival scene is Special Effects, created by the Contemporary Performance Network and curated by network editors Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson. Special Effects is a four-day festival of contemporary performances at The Wild Project and Participant Inc. in the East Village.
Art and life intertwine in Stage Kiss, a play by Sarah Ruhl having its New York premiere this February at Playwrights Horizons. In the play, two actors with a personal history are chosen to play the leads in a romantic melodrama. Quickly, real life and on stage drama merge into a[…]
While Ethan Hawke is doing his version of Macbeth at Lincoln Center, Kenneth Branagh is preparing to bring his own rendition from Manchester, England to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City this coming May. It will be Branagh’s New York stage debut. Branagh’s Macbeth will arrive at New York[…]
Roundabout Theatre Company is reviving the successful 1998 revival of Cabaret, including directors Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall, and Alan Cumming, who will reprise his Tony-winning role as the Emcee. Michelle Williams (Film: Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine) will star as Sally Bowles in her Broadway debut. Roundabout is transforming Studio 54 into the Kit Kat[…]