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When Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven begins with an American guy and an Iranian girl meeting cute on a Nantucket-like ferry dock, you might wonder if you've wandered into the...
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As a 10-person, 15-scene musical packed into 45 minutes, She of the Voice sure thinks big. But the action is small: nosy neighbors on a city block gossiping about an eccentric,...
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Axis Company's annual Hospital series, a sci-fi serial staged in weekly installments, may sound like a cool idea, but the 2009 incarnation, at least, is off to a shaky start....
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If you thought The Who's Tommy on Broadway was already a watering down of the original rock opera, then you probably want to avoid the Gallery Players' semi-pro shoestring...
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Decades before Harvey Milk, a rebellious Mayflower-descended communist queer named Harry Hay and his Mattachine Society declared themselves a "sexual minority" in 1950s Los...
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You probably don't picture your college philosophy professor pacing his office in an oversize metallic helmet trying to commune with the dead. But that's what becomes of Lee...
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About 30 minutes into Christina Anderson's Inked Baby, the Lifetime-esque domestic drama suddenly takes a turn into X-Files territory when an unnamed virus breaks out in a...
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A play featuring a secret Internet tryst in an old pickup truck—parked in Staten Island's favorite landfill, no less—promises some compelling seediness, if nothing...
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London critics have dubbed the rude, shocking playwrights that came of age there in the 1990s the "in yer face" school. But while Philip Ridley is counted among their number,...
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If you're at all averse to high-concept "director's theater"—or to transatlantic flights in coach—you might be wary of Wickets, which time-warps María Irene...
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Hebrew linguistics, futile customer service, and the musings of Carl Sagan constitute just some of the ingredients in the hard-to-digest stew of Sibyl Kempson's Potatoes of...
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Writer-director Peter A. Campbell's Yellow Electras, a multimedia
meditation on the daughter of the House of Atreus (part of the
Ontological-Hysteric Theater's "Incubator"...
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Misha Shulman sure has a thing for ducks. In the collection of sketches Brunch at the Luthers (and Other Quacks), the playwright/actor delivers a brief monologue, "The Meaning...
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Upset that you missed Sundance or Cannes this year? Well, forget the slopes of Utah or the sands of the Riviera, and hop the L train to Williamsburg instead, where the...
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'You don't know how good it feels to be drunk and below 14th Street,' exulted Obie winner Stew, bringing his Passing Strange downtown to the Obie Awards from his uptown...
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At its best, "theater for young audiences" can rivet grown-ups as well. But Yellow Moon, from Glasgow's TAG Citizens Theatre, gives the impression of being tailored to a crowd...
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Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 cult film The Conversation memorably dramatizes the rather uncinematic topic of listening. While the main plot events unfold slowly and usually...
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Kristen Kosmas's subdued existentialist comedy Hello Failure takes us into the humdrum lives of submariners and the women who wait for them. While the men submerge offstage on...
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Molière may forever be the property of the Comédie Française, but the cheekily named National Theater of the United States of America (by no means under...
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Norway may not be the first place you'd
set a Holocaust drama, but that's where Polish émigré Moritz Rabinowitz spent the 1930s as a successful tailor and...
