Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
Legacy Falls is part of a popular theater trend of bringing the drama of TV on to the stage. But it stands apart from the pack with its fantastic musical numbers, fun acting, and daytime drama twist. The show revolves around the cast and crew of a soap opera called Legacy[…]
Photos by Seth Walters The Pirates of Finance is The Pirates of Penzance . . . set on Wall Street. The music is Sullivan’s (with snippets from nine Gilbert and Sullivan operettas), the book and lyrics are not exactly Gilbert’s.
Proof that a show doesn’t need a huge budget, a grandiose set, or a gaggle of backup dancers to be great, The Brontes, the latest endeavor from Washington, DC troupe Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue, is a whole lot of fun and very well done. Financing this project and its[…]
Ron Dizon Actor
Aimee Todoroff Director
Breaking the fourth wall but not in that uncomfortable, interactive way audiences fear the world over, rogerandtom at HERE Arts Center is a space bending meta-play. This is actually an encore presentation of rogerandtom. This production had a very successful run at HERE earlier this year and is back for a[…]
Jenny TibbelsActor, Director
Rebecca Nyahay Actor, Director, Producer
Join Maxamoo and friends Saturday, July 20th, at Brecht in the Park for 3 short plays performed in Central Park by Elephant Run District. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet some wonderful new people who share an interest in theater and to see an innovative take on three rarely produced Brecht plays from[…]
Mel House Actor
Michael Perrie Jr. Actor, Playwright, Composer
Photos by Stan Barouh Religion, state authority, gender roles, and the essence of war are all tackled in Howard Barker’s The Castle – a complex play that incorporates equal amounts of humor and philosophy. The play is set in Twelfth Century England. The crusaders return from the Holy Land to find that[…]
Sasquatched! The Musical is the tale of a kindly Sasquatch just trying to be himself in the Pacific Northwest. The lovable Bigfoot (who prefers the term Sasquatch-American) has a surprisingly gentle nature and intelligent mind. His appearance to a local resident stirs up the community, attracting fad media and unwanted attention.[…]
Julian Po is a stranger, washed up in a middle-American town, on his way to the ocean to kill himself. The people of this small town react to this odd man in macabre, hilarious, and intriguing ways. The town mayor offers him a gun, the pastor looks to him for[…]
There are no fewer than nine theater festivals in New York City in July, that’s 153 new shows (we counted), meaning you have 153 opportunities to experience illuminating, transcendent theater and 153 opportunities to be held hostage by banal banter, poor acting, and one-man shows on the meaning of life[…]
For more than ten years Improv Everywhere has been disturbing the peace with flash mobs, mass pranks, and self-described scenes of chaos and joy. This weekend is the group’s tenth annual Mp3 Experiment, a massive participatory event. It promises to be one of their largest, craziest and most ambitious events to date.[…]
Photos by Photos by Stan Barouh A group of bankers and brokers in the late 1980s are dealing with the consequences of Margaret Thatcher’s Big Bang — the deregulation policies that altered the British (and consequently the global) financial market. The Potomac Theatre Project’s Serious Money revolves around the sudden death of[…]
As part of New York City Center’s ENCORES! Off-Center performance series, I’m Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road will run for five performances in July. This very popular musical from the 1970s follows a former pop star attempting a comeback. Her songs shed the frivolous romanticism of her[…]
As part of New York City Center’s ENCORES! Off-Center performance series,Violet will run for one night only. A musical set in the Deep South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet returns with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster in the title role. The original production won the[…]
As part of New York City Center’s ENCORES! Off-Center performance series, The Cradle Will Rock will run for five performances in July. A revival from 1937, The Cradle Will Rock tells the story of a 1930s steel strike, in which workers battle greedy businessmen and a brutal police force. The cast is[…]