Real experts like E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf knew what reviewers go out of their way explaining in wordy detail: there is no such thing as a simple plot. Like offline real lif…
 Co-Creator/Co-Choreographer/Director/Producer/Lead Performer Cassandra Rosebettle and Co- Creator/Composer/Librettist JL Marlor describe The Final Veil as a movement opera. Unlik…
 Hopefully, with a lot of numerousness, the truer story of women in history and the arts will continue. #MeToo and COVID partially started this reckoning, and these two recent works …
 Does love make the world go round? Is there such a thing as a random encounter? In 1897, Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler asked these questions in Reigen (Round Dance). whi…
It was hard not thinking about what was happening in Ukraine (the "The" was dropped when independence was declared in 1991) when J2 Spotlight Theater's captivating revival of A Day in …
The Jetsons had Astro. Doctor Who K-9 and Karvanista. Boxey adopted robotic Daggit after the first Battlestar Galactica survived the Cylon attack but the poor kid's pet didn't.…
Recipes, coffee franchises, fashion, even outfits worn to museum galas are labeled "iconic." The performing arts have no shortage of them either. Towards the end of 2021, two very di…
 Following this unprecedented time of isolation, the United Solo Theatre Festival 2021 is back at Theatre Row. On October 28, choreographer, teacher, and gifted visual memoiris…
 Part street theatre, part walking tour and all fun, Bated Breath Theatre Company's, Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec uses the West Village as its stage. Extended throug…
 Ivan Ilyich Golovin died a hard death. Judgement of the Imperial Court official's soul is left to his creator " Leo Tolstoy " whose edicts are more dogmatic than any Supreme Being.Å
 Neither Michael (Imana Breaux) nor Sean David (Adrain Washington) would recognize their present-day San Francisco hometown. The aspiring artists' relationship, told in Ntozake…
 "DO NOT FEED THE SWANS" reads the sign posted at the edge of the lake The Prince (James Lovell) staggers towards. Drunk, unhappy and unloved, he's ready to end it all when The Swan …
 Imagine being a primarily self-taught scientist who wrote several almanacs, built a clock that ran 50 years, corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and was so brilliant performing measu…
 The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) approximates that the Bard wrote Timon of Athens and King Lear between 1604-1606.  Lear is a masterpiece about dysfunctional famili…
 Being the reviewer is fun stuff but can be awkward " particularly when covering children's theatre, when the only reactions that matter most are from those wearing glittery unicorn horn…
  2020 marks the centennial of Clarice Lispector's birth. The Ukrainian-Jewish refugee who settled in Brazil has long been acclaimed as a feminist trailblazer in male dominated S…
 The November 26, 2019 publication of The UN environment programme Emissions Gap Report 2019  confirms yet again that Earth is in serious trouble. Findings directed specific…
 "From my childhood I have no happy memories. I don't mean to say that I never, in all those years, felt any happiness or joy. But suffering is all-consuming: it somehow gets rid of anyt…
 DruidShaekespeare's Richard III  is a bruising experience, which is as it should be. The Irish troupe's contribution to the tenth anniversary season of Lincoln Center's Whi…
 Historic events impact lives. There are the famous examples of Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry, Abraham Zapruder's home movie of the events in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 a…
Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation is review-proof. Creator/Writer/Director Gerard Alessandrini started parodying The Great White Way in 1982, and The Triad Theatre (158 West 72n…
The happiest and worst memories are those that last, re-playing over and over in one's head. Movies have the same effect, like smiling when thinking about Han Solo winking at Princess Le…
 Walking to The Shed, NYC's newest cultural center on West 30th Street and 11th Avenue, is a visual lesson in urban planning. After exiting the A train on 34th Street at the ey…
"What did you do on your summer vacation?" is a big conversation starter this time of year Dancers dance, whether on tour, as featured guests at festivals, or for members of Americ…
 Like many musicals, Felix Starro, opening Ma-Yi Theatre Company's 30th anniversary season at Theatre Row, is about the tenuous connection between family and faith. What …