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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Ashes & Ink’ Are a Poignant Mix in Martha Pichey’s...
Addiction is everywhere in America, in art and pop culture as much as in real life. Personal stories reveal the problem more vividly than statistics. Playwright Martha Pichey tells one such story in...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Hold On to Me Darling’ with Adam Driver
Hold On to Me Darling With incredible ensemble work and well-paced, acute direction by Neil Pepe, Hold On to Me Darling showcases the dynamics of a superb theatrical production. Written with...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘The Hills of California’
The Hills of California The Hills of California, now in its New York premiere, features the successful duo, playwright Jez Butterworth and director Sam Mendes, who teamed up again after their multiple...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Vladimir’
Vladimir Loosely based on the lives of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who stood up to Russian president Vladimir Putin, Erika Sheffer’s Vladimir, directed by Daniel...
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Exclusive Interview: Eve Blackwater on ‘Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad...
Back in April, I had the opportunity to review Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival. I wrote, “the characters bond…in a world dominated by abusive men. Sometimes...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Yellow Face’ by David Henry Hwang Is Just Brilliant
Yellow Face Yellow Face, David Henry Hwang’s satiric comedy, turns ideas of racial identity, political correctness and self-definition on their heads. It’s running in revival at Todd Haimes Theatre...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘The Roommate,’ a Must-See With Mia Farrow and...
The Roommate Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, directed by Jack O’Brien, turns into a delightful vehicle for the incontrovertible talent and stature of Mia Farrow and Patti Lupone. The extraordinary...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Left on Tenth’ with Julianna Margulies, Peter...
Left on Tenth How many of us get second chances in life and don’t realize it? And what if you do realize it and don’t appreciate it because you don’t believe in miraculous synchronicity? In her...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Loneliness Was a Pandemic’ by Olivia Haller – Can You...
Can a robot – an artificial intelligence – learn to create art? Olivia Haller addresses this vividly topical question in her dystopian one-act play Loneliness Was a Pandemic. But the play, a world...
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Theater: Heights Players Go All in on Tom Stoppard with ‘Arcadia’ in Brooklyn
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a heady brew, with a pretty large cast and a complex storyline set in two eras two centuries apart. This tale of poetical clashes and scholarly detective work is no easy...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Café Utopia,’ a Snappy Labor Movement Comedy by Gwen...
Café Utopia is a smart, serious, funny play about juice-bar workers and unionizing. It’s relevant directly to countless American workers, especially those who only in recent years have begun facing...
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Theater Review (Off Broadway): ‘We Live in Cairo’
We Live in Cairo As with all successful musicals, We Live in Cairo, with book, music and lyrics by Daniel & Patrick Lazour, took years to perfect. Directed by Taibi Magar, the epic musical about...
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Art: ‘Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now’ at the...
A triumphant new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores a little-studied facet of the art world worthy of close attention. Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘It’s a Wonderful World’ is Terrific
It’s a Wonderful World, the Louis Armstrong Musical It’s a Wonderful World unspools Louis Armstrong’s “rags to riches” journey and rise to fame. The musical reveals Armstrong’s passion for jazz...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘Agamemnon: The Circle of Blood’—War Stories Old and New
Agamemnon: The Circle of Blood is a collage of theater, film, and performance art. Creator Rafika Chawishe takes the stage alone in a series of roles from Trojan War history as recounted in Aeschylus’...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Death Becomes Her’ Is Riotous Fun
Death Becomes Her Based on the Universal Pictures film of the same name written by Martin Donovan and David Koepp and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the musical Death Becomes Her pulls out all the stops...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Thistles,’ a Prickly Family Dilemma by Cyndy A. Marion
Thistles isn’t a ghost story. But at the center of Cyndy A. Marion’s play is a house that’s haunted. Haunted not so much by the shades of the dead, but by the frustrated or beaten-down spirits of the...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘Awake in the Dark’ by Shira Nayman
Awake in the Dark When a writer of fiction adapts their own work for the stage, the results aren’t always great. Prose and drama are very different media that demand different talents and skill sets....
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Art Book Review: ‘Yokai’ by Shigeru Mizuki from Drawn+Quarterly
Yokai Yokai: The Art of Shigeru Mizuki from Drawn and Quarterly is a tome showing not just Mizuki’s exceptional artwork but also some of the most fascinating yokai in all of Japan. Mizuki based much...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library’– A...
Philosophy can seem an abstract endeavor, a realm of hypotheticals, generalizations, ideals. But it was lived experience, as much as academic studies, that fueled the thinking of Hannah Arendt,...
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