Schwend is marvelous at depicting the quotidian details that harass struggling families in The Amoralists' new production, and Vanessa Vache gives one of the year's standout performances.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Todd Brian Backus, PowerOut Artistic Producer, on His New Play ‘Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Investigator’
A 19-year-old Emily Dickinson, teamed with Edgar Allan Poe, is the last line of defense between the everyday and a world of magic, ghosts, and vampires.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘City Girls & Desperadoes’ with Austin Pendleton at The Secret Theatre
Imagine one of Tennessee Williams's larger-than-life mother figures dropped into a Lanford Wilson play, and you'll have a hint at what to expect.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘How to Get Into Buildings’ by Trish Harnetiaux
New Georges' experiment in "exploded view" theater is more of an implosion.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Bellagio Fountain Has Been Known to Make Me Cry’ by Renee Philippi
Concrete Temple Theatre's new one-act is a well-played Southern gothic in the vein of Tennessee Williams with a magic-realism edge.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Astronaut Love Show’ – a New Musical by Fred Sauter and Paul Leschen
Despite some narrative weakness, this new musical from the writers of 'Bedbugs!!!' is well worth seeing for its great music, wacky (true) stories, and fabulous cast.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Radio Mystery 1949’ by Dennis Richard
The concept of an old-time live radio broadcast turning into a kind of reality show might ring bells for today's audience if it were handled cleverly, but 'Radio Mystery 1949' drops the ball.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘The Singularity’ by Crystal Jackson
In a rather dystopian future and on the verge of menopause, a woman is at a fertility clinic hoping to have her very last egg artificially inseminated. But things aren't going her way.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘the dreamer examines his pillow’ by John Patrick Shanley
In its first NYC revival since its 1986 debut, the play mingles passages of naturalistic dialogue with fanciful poetic flowerings to expose depths of passion and self-doubt. And for long swaths of the 90-minute one-act, the Attic Theater Company cast carries this difficult material off with a crazed, sparkling bravado.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘Butcher Holler Here We Come’
Lit only by the actors' headlamps, this dark poetic drama about trapped coal miners grew on me – like a clammy mold.
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