‘The Sabbath Girl’ Returns with a Song
Shortly before the world paused in 2020, 59E59 theater hosted Penguin Rep’s production of Cary Gitter’s play The Sabbath Girl. (Original review here.) The standard tale of “boy meets girl but it...
View Article‘Ain’t Done Bad’ Makes Country Sexy and Cool
In general, New Yorkers aren’t all that keen on country music. Most shows with spurs and twang that open here come and go faster than an unbridled, wild horse. Perhaps the rural sensibility doesn’t...
View Article‘Cellino V. Barnes’ Pleads Guilty to A Good Time
Personal injuries are rarely a source of humor. But Mike B. Breen & David Rafailedes might defend their right to laugh at them. The pair are the writers behind Cellino V. Barnes, an often amusing...
View Article‘The Ask’ Challenges and Expands our World Views
For non-profit fundraisers, it’s rarely a straight line to the money. For Tanner (Colleen Litchfield), it’s practically a trek up a mountain laced with landmines. They are half of the cast in Matthew...
View Article‘The Voices In Your Head’ is a Magical Piece of Humanity
The first thing you should know about grief: It’s okay to laugh about it. Grier Mathiot and Billy McEntee think so too. The pair are behind the modest but clever play, The Voices In Your Head which...
View Article‘The Witness Room’ Premieres Off-Broadway
After a successful run on the West Coast, Pedro Antonio Garcia‘s play The Witness Room makes its Off Broadway premiere at Manhattan’s AMT Theater. Garcia’s courtroom drama began previews earlier this...
View ArticleNew York Botanical Garden Illuminates Tim Burton’s Imagination
“What’s this? What’s this? There’s color everywhere What’s this? There’s white things in the air.” Jack Skellington, the protagonist of Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas, sang these lyrics...
View Article‘The Witness Room’ Is a Better Than Average Crime Drama
Ever since Dragnet, audiences have been obsessed with dramatized crime, punishment, and redemption. And while most pieces delve into the psychological behaviors of criminals, few of them lift the lid...
View ArticleNative American Stories Spring to Life in ‘Distant Thunder: A New American...
AMAS Theater, along with Tall Tree Productions is currently offering New Yorkers a chance to see a unique musical that sheds lights onto rarely told Native American stories. Distant Thunder: A New...
View ArticleThe Stylistics Glide Back to Carnegie Hall
There have been countless awards and recognitions for The Stylistics, the soul group that emerged out of Philadelphia in 1968. ““One of the biggest was playing Carnegie Hall in New York City,” original...
View ArticleQueer Country Artist Orville Peck Rides into Brooklyn
New Yorkers rarely go for country music, but the gay community knows that queers are society’s true tastemakers. This weekend, Brooklylnites and other city dwellers will see why when the Brooklyn...
View Article‘Yellow Face’ Pokes and Prods While Making Irrefutable Points
He had such an auspicious beginning. In his early days as a playwright, David Henry Hwang quickly gained notoriety for his Tony award winning play, M. Butterfly. After that, he went on to scribe Face...
View ArticleNew York Pop’s “Simply the Best: A Tina Turner Tribute with Adrienne Warren”...
Fall in New York promises many events to entice the citizenry out of its summer reverie, and a New York Pops season kick-off concert is one such ticket that always delivers. The highly anticipated...
View ArticlePink Martini Marks a Milestone at Carnegie Hall
Raise a glass! Pink Martini’s 30th anniversary Tour makes a stop at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on Friday November 1st. Led by Founders Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes, this musically diverse band...
View Article‘Left on Tenth’: Starry Cast,Tepid Dramatization
If human cancer battles, canines with cancer, and charming British friends don’t tug at the heartstrings, it’s hard to say what will. All four of them comprise Left on Tenth, an innocuous, but hardly a...
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