Reality Check @ The Met
Upon entering a relatively small room in the rather grand structure of the Met, one is struck by the…
A More Perfect Union
Vern Thiessen, one of Canada’s most produced playwrights, utilizes a never-before-seen setting for a theatrical romance: the library of…
STREB @ SLAM
The STREB at S.L.A.M. performance described in a single sentence would be: Circus meets the ballet goes to a…
Intervals @ The Guggenheim
Excuse me, you’ve lost your watch. Or you will, at any rate, misplace any sense of clockish orientation once…
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
When most people think of Shakespeare, they remember sitting in school reading tragedies like Hamlet and King Lear, or…
The Rubin Museum of Art
Last Friday I went to the Rubin Museum of Art to see Himalayan art. I saw a variety of…
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage drew many crowds because of its familiarity, but gains little praise for its…
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is a Banana Bag and Bodice song play written by Jason Craig and…
reasons to be truthful?
Before I saw Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty, I was warned that it would be “harsh.” Indeed, the…
33 Variations
Diane Walsh is a fantastic pianist. As the lights go down in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, Walsh begins her…
The Third Mind @ The Guggenheim
Gold Byars. Surely, you think, the Spellcheck on my computer is dysfunctional, offering yet another series of quirky alternatives…
reasons to be pretty
I settle down into my seat and stare up at the looming ceiling of the stage. Tall shelves filled…
End Days
End Days occurs in the trough between the shockwaves of 9/11 and America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. The characters…
DanceBrazil
The Capoeira style performance of DanceBrazil at NYU’s Skirball Center was truly beautiful and invigorating. The first piece, Ritmos,…