Category: Theater

  “Suppose beautiful Madeline Harvey” This single phrase, sometimes a question, always invocation, is repeated by three characters. In altering shapes, the words capture the essence of Object Collection’s Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey, Richard Foreman’s final performed text, directed and adapted for the stage by Kara Feely with a live score composed by Travis Just.…

Dimes Square, technically a microneighborhood of Manhattan between Chinatown and the Lower East Side, is renowned for its particular cultural attributes: an overpopulation of twenty-one-year-old recent graduates of liberal arts college and an underpopulation of anyone who’s ever worked a service job. But to define Dimes Square doesn’t do it justice: it may exist in…

Windows down. Music blasting. The wind in your hair. Exit signs, strange billboards, a succession of identical-looking sleepy little Midwestern towns. A clutch of empty 40s and tequila bottles clinking against one another in the passenger seat. The stench of old vomit. A pounding headache. The sinking feeling that your life is not working out…

  I spent the two hours after leaving Honeyland thinking about how it could be rewritten into a passable show. It was a frustrating task. What should one do with a musical whose surface goes no deeper than a 1960s Wikipedia page?  The show, which transferred to Off-Broadway’s Triad Theater from an original run in…

  The ‘Cellino v. Barnes’ play ads have been almost as inescapable as their real-life inspirations in recent months. Facebook and Instagram have become virtual billboards with plastered actors across the screen in mock legal commercials declaring that you, the onlooker, have been ‘served.’ It’s only fitting. The Ross Cellino and Steven Barnes that most…

Few things make you feel as lucky to live in New York as being around artists at the beginning of their careers. This is certainly the case with ELEGIE, a nascent theater company founded this past summer by Kara Gordon with an inventive production of Jean Genet’s The Maids. The show, which follows two housemaids…

Matthew Freeman, like most New York City creatives, has a day job. The award-winning playwright, who premiered his latest play, The Ask, in early September, spends his time out of the theater as a giving director at the ACLU. For the past thirteen years, he has asked rich, liberal donors for vast sums of money,…

  Playwright Sophie McIntosh’s latest play, Cunnicularii, which ran for two weeks in July at Chelsea’s Alchemical Studios, centers on the seldom discussed ‘fourth trimester’– the time between birth and 12 weeks postpartum. The play takes its name from a sketch by William Hogarth entitled, “Cunicularii or the wise men of Godliman in consultation.” The…

You – just you – walk into an empty space. The only thing visible is a note with a phone number on it, and when the voice on the other line picks up, it asks you to acknowledge that you are completely alone. It tells you to close your eyes. Fall backward, it says. Someone…