Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
HERE Arts Center is a performance art space in New York’s Soho neighborhood. It hosts two theaters and a small cafe. Founded in 1993, HERE is also a producing organization that supports artists creating innovative, multidisciplinary work. HERE and the work presented at HERE have garnered multitude of awards, including 16[…]
Everything Is Ours at HERE Arts Center is theater company Colt Coeur’s fourth world premiere production. In this play a young couple, Mitchell and Sara, have every material comfort thanks to their innovative web-based businesses. But then their content, bourgeois life tumbles into chaos when a child in need of care-taking unexpectedly arrives at[…]
The Fall theater schedule in New York City is packed with staged readings from some amazing artists at the Lark Play Development Center, MCC Theater, WorkShop Theater Company, 1st Irish Festival, & Amas Musical Theatre. Send announcements of additional readings to lindsay at maxamoo.com. 20th Annual Playwrights’ WeekDuring the Lark Play[…]
In The Awake nightmares mix with reality: Nate is kidnapped, interrogated and forced to start life anew; Gabrielle, a foreign actress, catches fire and then finds herself serving as a housewife in America; and Malcolm floats on a bed in a flooded world only to awake at his mother’s bedside where she is in[…]
FringeNYC Encore Series provides another opportunity to see some of the most critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Solo and group shows are presented separately. Click here for the solo shows. GROUP SHOWS PeninsulaIn Absentia ProductionsWriter: Nathan Wright / Director: Nadia FoskolouBest Ensemble winner at FringeNYC[…]
FringeNYC Encore Series provides another opportunity to see some of the most critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Solo and group shows are presented separately. Click here for the group shows. SOLO SHOWS Melting in MadrasOvercoat Theater (Boston, MA)Writer: H.R. Britton / Director: Rajeev VarmaA[…]
Alvin Gordon, played by comedian Bruce Vilanch, is a bitter out-of-work comedy writer in his 50s. In RUBBLE, Alvin is asked to write a pilot for a sitcom (which he hates) at a large network (which he also hates). At a meeting to discuss the offer an earthquake strikes and Alvin[…]
Listen… Can You Hear Me Now? is an autobiographical, one woman show by Gloria Rosen about her life growing up as a hearing child in a deaf home. Gloria is not only a fantastic storyteller but also able to embody herself as a character. In the show, she describes her[…]
Romance is certainly a popular topic in the theater. It’s hard to create something in the genre that is not clichéd, which makes Another Evening of Awkward Romance all the more remarkable. It stands out as a unique and fun new look at love and romantic encounters. In the show writer[…]
In Bradley Cole, a musical at the FringeNYC 2013 festival, Ian Maxwell is an anti-social, nerdy nobody. He knows computers better than he knows people, which is how he built Bradley Cole, his fictional online persona. As Bradley Cole, Ian pretends to be rich and glamorous and soon acquires a cult-like[…]
In Killer Therapy, a dramatic comedy at this year’s FringeNYC Festival, a pacifist psychologist is en route to her afternoon spin class, natch, when a notorious assassin in full midlife crisis comes looking for answers, not those kind of answers, the meaning of life kind of answers. What follows is[…]
The Drama Desk Award winning 59E59 Theaters (conveniently named after its location) is an upscale complex of three theaters and a bar that serves drinks and snacks, located near the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. It was built by the nonprofit organization The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation[…]
Matt Graham is an international Scrabble champion. His love of the game inspired his new solo show The Great iii Am, in which the morose Graham teaches the audience a few Scrabble tricks and by extension a few lessons about life and God. Graham improvises a lot in this production, so[…]
In The Accidental Hamlet, two wannabe actors — the pompous Frederick and the goofy John — take on the difficult task of performing Hamlet all on their own. The theater-within-theater premise provides the framework for a comedy which weaves scenes from the great Shakespearean tragedy with bits of slapstick: John demands[…]
Emily has reached the point in life where all of her friends are getting married. And as if that’s not bad enough, one of those friends is Emily’s ex, Michael. So Emily and her gay best friend, Alex, embark on a trip (that goes horribly awry, of course) for the wedding, and[…]
2&2 is every girl with a gay brother’s worst nightmare. What happens when he makes a love connection with your bisexual boyfriend? A comic book artist and his sister, Tommy and Rachel, both manage their respective hangups as her significant other is introduced to the family. Tommy is gay and deals[…]
It’s a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to publishing. In Playing God, two plateaued writers team up with a one-hit-wonder in the hopes of reviving their dusty careers. They battle with their egos and with each other as they try to cope with losing their authorial dignity, admitting their incomes are[…]
Before television, radio shows were the most popular form of evening entertainment. In Gotham Radio Theater’s The Awful Truth at the FringeNYC, the theater’s audience is the studio audience at one such radio show. The stage looks like a classic sound stage, with old fashioned microphones and noisemaking devices. The show[…]
Photos: Lloyd Mulvey There are a few ways to make Shakespeare’s Hamlet more accessible. For example, you could set it in modern-day New York or make it funnier or turn it into a drinking game. The HAMLET Project does all three. Taking over the second floor of midtown’s Harley’s Smokehouse,[…]
The Storytellers adapts for a minimalist stage suspense and mystery tales from Saki, W.W. Jacobs, Robert W. Service, and Edgar Allen Poe, some of the greatest storytellers that ever lived. The most well-known of the stories is Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. The performances are accompanied by original music from Louis Aquiler, which contributes to the[…]