Off-Broadway

Review: “Angel Reapers” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre (Closed Sunday March 20, 2016)

February 23, 2016 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, review of fren hill, slave play > | Pershing Square Signature Center

No matter how diligently humankind attempts to “reap angels,” the presumed effects of “The Fall” not only carry forward into the present but subvert any attempt for a successful journey “on to perfection” (John Wesley). “Angel Reapers” – currently running at the Pershing Square Signature Center – is a theological and psychological tour de force that exposes the underbelly of…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “Tennessee Williams 1982” at Walkerspace (Closed Sunday March 13, 2016)

February 21, 2016 | american psycho, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | Walkerspace

“The world is accident prone, no use attempting correction. After all, the loss of one fool makes room for another.” – Mme. Le Mode In the 1980s, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC is dedicated and Americans are ready to put the Vietnam War behind them. Interest rates reach an all-time high and Americans cash in on high-yielding Certificates…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “Old Hats” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage (Through April 3, 2016)

February 19, 2016 | bill irwin, Off-Broadway > | Pershing Square Signature Center

“Here’s to the chaos/The heartache and strain/Three cheers for agony/A toast to the pain/Hats off to everything that leaves a scar/For reminding me who my friends are” (“The Reminder Song” by Shaina Taub) “Old Hats,” the captivating theater piece created and performed by Bill Irwin and David Shiner, is back at the Signature Theater after a sold out successful run…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “Broadway and the Bard” at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed Sunday March 6, 2016)

February 16, 2016 | Off-Broadway, othello, she loves me, the lion king > | Lion Theatre, Theatre Row

There is nothing better than listening to an actor deliver Shakespeare’s lines with unbridled passion and the natural “heartbeat” rhythms inherent in the Bard’s iambic pentameter. And that is precisely the way veteran actor Len Cariou delivers important scenes from “Twelfth Night,” Henry V,” Richard II,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Othello,” “Taming of the Shrew,” Much Ado About Nothing,” “Julius Caesar,”…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “Cyrano de Bergerac” at The Theatre at St. Clement’s (Closed Sunday February 28, 2016)

February 10, 2016 | Off-Broadway > | Theatre at St. Clement's

“This nose precedes me everywhere/A quarter of an hour in front, to say, ‘Beware/Don’t love Cyrano’ to even the ugliest/And now Cyrano has to love the best,/The brightest, bravest, wittiest, the most/Beautiful!” Were he to live in the present, Cyrano de Bergerac would assume that women viewing his twenty-first century profile on Bumble or Tinder would immediate swipe left and…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “The Woodsman” at New World Stages (Closed Sunday May 29, 2016)

February 9, 2016 | into the woods, Off-Broadway, slave play, the collaboration > | New World Stages, The Woodsman, Tin Man

“What hope is there for an escape from evil?” (Nick Chopper) “The Woodsman,” the new theater piece by James Ortiz, is inspired by the back story of the “Tin Man” before Dorothy arrives in Oz and is adapted from the beloved writings of L. Frank Baum. It is an inventive, magical journey empowered to be told with sparse dialogue, beautiful…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “Utility” Presented by The Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (Closed Saturday February 20, 2016)

February 5, 2016 | last stand city center, Off-Broadway > | Emily Schwwend, Jay Stull, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Utility

“Yeah, and every time, you say, “no no no,” and then three months later we’re back together again or you want to be back together again and I’m like “no way” and so why don’t we just cut the crap and do it right one time.” Chris to Amber in “Utility” In the midst of the caucuses in Iowa and…

Read More Buy Tickets

Review: “Washer/Dryer” at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed Saturday February 20, 2016)

February 2, 2016 | LGBTQ+, little gem play review, Off-Broadway, on beckett, the play - little gem > | Beckett Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Washer/Dryer

Once upon a time there was a couple who, while vacationing in Vegas, decide to get married in the Little White Wedding Chapel. When they return home to Manhattan, Michael (played with a powerful vulnerability by Johnny Wu) assumes he will be able to move in to his new wife Sonya’s (played with the charming mix of feisty aggressiveness with…

Read More Buy Tickets

“Wide Awake Hearts” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday February 7, 2016)

February 2, 2016 | Off-Broadway > | 59E59 Theaters, Brendan Gall, Wide Awake Hearts

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” (Sean O’Casey) Brendan Gall’s “Wide Awake Hearts” currently running at 59E59 Theaters is “about” many things. There are themes in this lustrously written play despite its Character A’s (Ben Cole) protestation that “I don’t write from theme. It’s just a story I thought of.” And there is conflict…

Read More Buy Tickets

“I and You” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday February 28, 2016)

January 28, 2016 | caroline, Off-Broadway, you will die > | "I and You", 59E59 Theaters, Lauren Gunderson

“We two, how long we were fool’d,/Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,/We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return./We have voided all but freedom and all but our joy.” Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” After receiving clearance from Caroline’s (Kayla Ferguson) mother, high school classmate Anthony (Reggie D. White) shows up in Caroline’s bedroom…

Read More Buy Tickets