31 stories by "Morgan Skolnik"
Anticipation and intrigue flood the room" a room which both is and is not the club. I and around 120 of the most stylish people I have ever seen have been herded into taped off sections of t…
The morning of the day I saw Narcissister's spellbinding and stunningly original Voyage Into Infinity I had been working my day job at a bagel shop. "There's no flow!" I overheard one of the…
Wet Mess is a captivating performer with a playfully defined aesthetic. Their checkerboard face and giant phallic objects (somewhat reminiscent of the sprawling shapes of Yayoi Kusama) were …
Dimension Zero, the new sci-fi puppet musical from the Boxcutter Collective, arrives at HERE arts Center with all the ingredients for a wild downtown spectacle" extravagant puppets, scruffy …
Space Lesbians! Portals! Psychic Sisters! Oh my! These are just some of the elements introduced in the dizzying, sprawling, rollercoaster of a show that is Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian …
The room is thick with steam (ok, it's smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle through tunes that are joyfully melancholic, or perhaps melancholically joyful, in the way that o…
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company's Liberation is rebellious and not just because it features nudity! Mainly I was struck by its violation of writing's most cardi…
"The singing is nice, but the staging is atrocious." So remarked the couple sitting behind me at Target Margin's production of Show/Boat: A River before walking out during intermission. They…
Any frequent theater-goer is likely familiar with the "two block rule", a piece of etiquette that states that one should refrain from discussing a show until they are at least two blocks awa…
Jill Ohayon grew up believing there were only two respectable career paths: doctor or lawyer. And so she chose the latter and carried on with her life… but musical theater kept calling.…
The Dan Daw Show's long list of potentially triggering content includes depictions of kink experiences, suffocation, humiliation, loud noises, flashing lights and there, at the end of the li…
Lyricist/Librettist Kate Rankine has a list saved on her phone of "golden moments", or "little things during the day that people say or people do that show the beauty of human connection." T…
Though many people rushed to them post election, the musical of our political moment is not "Suffs", nor is it "Ragtime". It is, for better or worse, New York Theatre Workshop's "We Live in …
Created by On the Rocks Theatre Co. (the two person co-writer and designer team Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose) The Beastiary is a hypnotic feast for the senses, engorging its audiences in…
Emily Bronte doesn't have an acronym but Franz Kafka does and Kafkaesque! Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe and now running at Theatre 154 has 90 jam packed minutes proving why. James Harvey'…
The Christine Jorgensen Show isn't perfect, but it's just so delightfully charming it's hard to notice. Jesse James Keitel as the world's first transgender celebrity Christine Jorgensen and …
Inside the Public Theater it's 2019 and Australia is on fire. Outside the theater it's 2024 and North Carolina is under water. It is with this context that Australian theater artist and game…
All around me people are laughing uproariously, slapping their knees, bursting into applause mid song and here I sit in the middle of it all utterly baffled. Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We S…
Alright, I'll level with you. Maligned as it is (and oh is it ever) Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1982 musical Cats is what first made me fall in love with theater. When I was five, I went to a prod…
Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme disbelief, my tooth had grown another tooth in it. Well, my dens in dente is nothing compared to Dawn…
On Monday How to Dance in Ohio, one of the most hyped shows of the 2023 Broadway fall season, announced it would close on February 11th, just one show short of 100 performances. Based on Ale…
On January 13th, hundreds of artists and cultural workers marched through New York City's theater district in solidarity with The Freedom Theatre of Jenin, Palestine which was raided one mon…
"We're not here to make fairytales, we're here to follow them," quips the narrator (Adam Godley) early on in Once Upon a One More Time, the Britney Spears jukebox musical playing at the Marq…
The first notes of Simon McBurney's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which opened on May 19th at The Metropolitan Opera begin before the house lights have gone down.…
The work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging" pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its core it is kind. Her gentle, but relentless commitment to community can be felt both in the c…
