Email Author Alexis Soloski
Did you order a side of magical realism with your moo goo gai pan? Is that a dash of absurdism in your tom yum? In Roland Schimmelpfennig’s... More >>
What if composer Nikolai "Nicky" Nabokov, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, designer Sergey Sudeikin, and a host of... More >>
In the office lexicon, are there words more demoralizing than "corporate retreat"? Not for employees of Skyline Travel, the decaying agency at... More >>
The sunshine. The palm trees. The dashing leading men. The lissome starlets. The spangles. The elephants? As you may have guessed, Ayub Khan... More >>
A recent college grad finds himself back home, careerless and directionless. His rich father, interfering stepmother, and doting grandmother... More >>
The Women’s Project tends to favor domestic comedies that play like tragedies. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Recent shows... More >>
Any Broadway show has much to live up to: burgeoning production costs; audience hopes inflated by high ticket prices; competition from film,... More >>
If you were to wander backstage, into green rooms and dressing rooms and the dark spaces of the wings, you might hear performers whispering a... More >>
Edgar and Alice are soon to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. What would constitute an appropriate gift? Arsenic? Cyanide? A neatly... More >>
Hamlet might have had an easier time deciding whether or not to take revenge had he had legions of undead at his command. That’s the case in... More >>
Magicians have been performing the bullet catch, a seemingly dangerous illusion wherein a magician appears to trap a bullet in his hand or mouth... More >>
Robert Honeywell’s new musical at The Brick just might give you a sympathetic earache. This new tuner, performed exclusively by women and... More >>
Obviously everyone who wishes to be married should be allowed to do so, but is marriage such a desirable institution? Few portraits of it are more... More >>
How might you feel if upon reading your husband’s final testament, you learned he’d left you his second best bed? Playwright Robert... More >>
A few years ago, Johnny O’Callaghan, an unemployed queer actor, decided he had to adopt a Ugandan orphan named Odin. Then he created a... More >>
In 2007, a young Ohio couple with a penchant for role-playing games robbed nearly $8 million from an armored car company and were promptly... More >>
Perhaps you felt a bit faint during Tristan Sturrock’s swooningly romantic turn as the male lead in Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief... More >>
Art Want to learn to draw, but hours spent outlining Old Masters, landscapes, and flower vases don't inspire you? Well, Dr.... More >>
Following a long-running TV show and some successful stage stints, actor Michael Urie no longer needs to suffer demeaning day jobs. But perhaps he... More >>
Working Theater keeps on truckin’. Literally. With his new play, La Ruta, Ed Cardona Jr. follows a group of immigrants as they make a risky... More >>
As a girl in County Cork, the Irish actor Fiona Shaw walked past a statue of the Virgin Mary every day on her way to school. She didn't care... More >>
Julius Caesar Performances begin April 10 The last time the Royal Shakespeare Company graced our shores, they brought... More >>
Bring on the glow-in-the-dark wigs and extended fight sequences, the Vampire Cowboys have returned with a new show. Crystal Skillman scripts their... More >>
Mary doesn’t speak much in the gospels. A question at the annunciation, a polite request at Cana. Isn’t it time she had a few more... More >>
Well, first you’ll want to know about the star: sleek of hair and body, effortlessly graceful, vulnerable and jaded by turns, but perhaps... More >>
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