Roger Guenveur-Smith's 'In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat' at NYTW is a memorable and intimate portrait of his friendship with the artist.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Arias with a Twist’
In a revival in its original home, this fantasy cabaret surrounds legendary avant-garde performance artist Joey Arias with the visual magic of puppetry mastermind Basil Twist.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Invention of Love’ by Tom Stoppard
The life of the poet-scholar A.E. Housman illuminates the social and mental compromises that must be made when society outlaws an essential part of one's very nature.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness’
It's a thing of beauty when a heartrending script meets the perfect actor. That's just what happens in this memoir of mental illness.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Body of Mary: A Play in 3 Acts (of God)’ by Katie Cappiello
Cappiello wields a crossbow of stinging humor to explore in three one-act plays how the Catholic Church treats women's bodies in the context of motherhood.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Very Blue Light’ by Daphne Silbiger
This new play exemplifies the rare talent of mixing mysticism and politics, and the acutely personal and the abstractions of philosophy, in one story and by doing so engaging minds and hearts alike.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Les Enfants Terribles’
Michael Gardner directs his new adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novella, creating a lurid phantasmagoria of mental warping animated by rabid performances.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Ford/Hill Project’ at BAM
Derived entirely from transcripts of the Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford hearings, the play zigzags fluidly between the two, emphasizing how little has fundamentally changed since 1991.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Safe House’ by L.B. Browne
This gripping experience is likely to leave you thankful for whatever healthy family relationships you might have.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Alice Won’t Die’ by Grace Tomblin Marca
A screw-up gets a trio of killers-for-hire in trouble and the only solution is another murder. But just how did it happen? 'Alice Won't Die' asks us to decide whose perspective to trust.
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