Kia Rogers

Off-Broadway Review: “Bergen” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre

There is a bleak, doleful new play entitled “Bergen” that is being presented as part of The Broadway Bound Festival at the 14th Street Y. More a play with songs than a musical, “Bergen” is set in the near future in Norway where a motley group of mediocre rock musicians try to decide what to name their band. They set…

Off-Broadway Review: “Devil of Choice” Falters at LAByrinth Theater Company at Cherry Lane’s Studio Theatre

May 29, 2018 | Off-Broadway > | "Devil of Choice", "Faust", Cherry Lane Theater, Daniel Melnick, David Zayas, David Zayas Jr., Elizabeth Canavan, Florencia Lozano, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kia Rogers, LAByrinth Theater Company, Lara De Bruijn, Maggie Diaz Bofill, Megan Tomei, Melisa McGregor, Raul Abrego, Shira-Lee Shalit

“Faustian bargain: (idiomatic) A deal in which one focuses on present gain without considering the long-term consequences.” Although one of the characters in the new play “Devil of Choice,” produced by Labyrinth Theater Company at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, is a popular professor whose highly sought-after class focuses on “Faust,” he certainly disregards the implications associated with violating morality….