Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
Guns are drawn in Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Sunset Baby, but it’s not the fear of a firefight that grips you. Instead, it’s the tense war of words between Nina and her father Kenyatta, a former civil rights revolutionary, that makes the heart pound and occasionally ache at the LAByrinth[…]
First, there was a book, then a movie (Hitchcock’s classic 1935 thriller), then the comedic play adapted by Patrick Barlow, and now a never-ending stream of revivals of The 39 Steps. The most recent revival in New York City from New York Deaf Theatre is a unique performance that combines[…]
Naked Angels, an esteemed New York City theater company, hosts three works-in-progress reading and performance series, in order from least to most preparation and production value: Tuesdays@9, 1st Mondays, and Angels in Progress.
Defacing Michael Jackson by Aurin Squire, is a poignant and touching dramatic comedy about race relations in the mid-1980s, told through the eyes of five kids and their love for the King of Pop. It’s 1984, and Obie, Frenchy, and twins Yellow and Red, all black, lead difficult lives in[…]
The astounding Jefferson Mays dies eight times onstage in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, now playing at the Walter Kerr Theatre. He plays every member of the D’Ysquith family, a turn of the century set of royals who stand between the ambitious Monty Navarro (Bryce Pinkham) and earldom. In[…]
Strawberry and Chocolate at 777 Theatre is the first English language production of the Spanish language play adapted from the Oscar nominated, Cuban film, “Fresa y Chocolate” which is based on the short story “The Wolf, The Forest and the New Man” by Senel Paz. It is directed by Tony Award winner Roger Robinson. Set in[…]
Following a sold out run in London, Craig Adams and Ian Watson’s LIFT has made its way to New York for its U.S. debut. Directed by Beautiful Soup Theater’s founder Steven Carl McCasland, this musical follows eight strangers: a ballet dancer, a secretary, a French teacher, a lap dancer, a[…]
Becoming Dr. Ruth, a tribute to the renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth, starring Debra Jo Rupp in a solo performance, is currently having its New York premier. The play is set in 1997, as Dr. Ruth prepares to move out of her apartment. As she packs, she invites the audience to go with[…]
Bronx Bombers is a play about the fabled New York City Yankees (in case you’re new to this planet, the Yankees are a baseball team). Bronx Bombers is joining theater’s major leagues at Circle In the Square Theatre starting January 10, 2014. Written and directed by Tony Award nominee Eric Simonson[…]
Then She Fell from Third Rail Projects is an immersive adaption of Alice in Wonderland. It is now in its second run at a new location, The Kingsland Ward at St. Johns, a century-old institutional facility in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The audience for each Then She Fell performance is limited to 15 people.[…]
Originally commissioned by the BBC as a radio play, Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall first aired in 1957. The adaption currently running at 59E59 Theaters comes to New York following a successful run in London. Directed by Trevor Nunn, it features acting legends Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon (Dumbledore in[…]
The Scandinavian Theater Company presents two, back-to-back, one-act plays by Norwegian playwrights in Norway Plays: Drama Beyond Ibsen. In the first play, The Returning, a married couple grieves the disappearance and presumed death of their only son, Gustav. They hold a proper funeral and soon life for the childless couple slips into[…]
Mac Rogers Actor, Writer
See this Not that The 1970s and 1980s each have strong representation in the annals of wonderfully awful music. Synth-pop-hair-band celebrating Rock of Ages has been running for, well, ages; toured the country; and has a permanent residency at the Venetian casino in Las Vegas. You’ve seen it or, if[…]
Gideon Productions is a New York based artistic theater company. It produces plays, primarily plays written by company co-founder Mac Rogers. Gideon is best known for producing a trilogy of science fiction plays by Rogers called The Honeycomb Trilogy about an alien invasion of Earth. Gideon is run by artists[…]
We know, you are sick of Romeo and Juliet this season. We are too. But hear us out on this. R+J: Star-Cross’d Death Match doesn’t have Orlando Bloom or a shiny motorcycle but it has something that no other Shakespeare on stage has — booze, and lots of it. Theater[…]
The New Ohio Theatre makes a risky move reviving The Mutilated, a little-known late Tennessee Williams one-act. This dark, bizarre comedy stars performance-art legends Penny Arcade and Mink Stole (man, they don’t name ’em like that anymore) as two lonely Southern women on a morbid Christmas Eve in 1930s New[…]
David Schulner’s romantic dramedy An Infinite Ache has been kicking around theaters in the U.S. for more than a decade but it has never been performed in New York City, until now. An Infinite Ache is a play about the complexities of modern love. It follows an improbable couple (he’s a timid, Jewish boy[…]
Inspired by English playwright Noel Coward’s work, The Cottage is an intricate web of sex, secrets, and lies all shockingly unveiled in a single afternoon. Set in rural England in June 1923, Sylvia van Kipness, after spending a wondrous night with her lover, boldly sends two telegrams: one to her husband, announcing she[…]
The Play Company kicks off its 2013-14 season with This Is My Office, a site-specific play by Andy Bragen. As the name suggests, This Is My Office is set in an office. David Barlow, the sole performer, takes the audience on a guided tour, during which he opens up about his private life – frustrations[…]