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Skype-Crossed Lovers 23 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
by KIMBERLY PAU On Wednesday, August 14th, I had the pleasure of seeing Greencard Wedding’s The Skype Show or See You in August at the Fringe. The play is being presented at the White Box at 440 Studi...
Slain in the Spirit 8 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
Slain in the Spirit, a new play written and directed by Lisa Milinazzo, is based on the life of Andrea Yates, the Huston, Texas woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001. Molly (played ...
Beckett in Benghazi 6 Aug 2013 | 02:28 am
Ask yourself a question and be honest. Why do you go to the theater? You can be entertained in a crowd at the movies. You can see live music and dancing at a club. You can get first rate dramas with n...
His Majest, the Devil 24 Jul 2013 | 02:32 am
The Father of Lies, Leviathan, Lucifer and The Old Enemy — these are names for the personification of evil in our Western, Judeo-Christian tradition. Lucifer (literally “light bearer,” a metaphor for ...
Rubber Ducks and Sunsets 22 Jul 2013 | 11:29 pm
Al is dead. His survivors — his boyfriend, his best girl friend, his best guy friend and his sister — are bereaved. They feel life without Al is no life at all. They grieve, and their grief is a sickn...
Final Defenders 9 Jul 2013 | 11:50 pm
By Samuel McCarthy Sitting inside the furnace-like Brick theatre in Brooklyn’s uber-hip Williamsburg neighborhood, you’re watching a Victorian child, an 80s airhead, a tough 50s chick and a 2013 socia...
Unbroken Circle 7 Jul 2013 | 08:36 pm
Can a house be evil? In Unbroken Circle the house where three generations of a poor, Texas family live appears to be the repository of and monument to an enduring evil. The house is in Galveston, and ...
The Fallen 29 Jun 2013 | 02:47 am
“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” — Theodor Adorno The Fallen by Yasmine Beverly Rana playing at the T. Schreiber Studio, directed by Terry Schreiber, starts as a bedroom-cum-courtroom dr...
“Othello” by The Kinetic Theatre Company 25 Jun 2013 | 10:43 pm
“Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this? / Are we turn’d Turks, and to ourselves do that / Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?” Othello Act II, scene iii. Daniel Spector’s version of Othello i...
Frankenstein Upstairs 20 Jun 2013 | 01:14 am
It was a dark and stormy night . . . . Actually, the meteorological disturbances weren’t that bad on opening night of Gideon Theater Ensemble’s new play Frankenstein Upstairs at The Secret Theater in...