Entries from June 2008 ↓

?Adding Machine? is closing and ?The Strangerer? is opening.

Read listings info including media clips and reviews of the five Film Festival: A Theatre Festival shows that are extending into July

?The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)? is the sort of thing that might be funny even if the 12-year-olds in your neighborhood performed it.

The influence of rap and rock is being felt in a new crop of original-cast albums.

This stunts-and-spandex spectacular is ideally suited for children ages 6 to 12 with an advanced interest in jungle fauna, gymnastics or sequins.

Michael Rodgers came from California to New York City last month to defy the odds of making a living as an actor, not to defy death by pedaling a secondhand bicycle through Midtown traffic.

We all know—some from the media and popular stereotypes, others from living over there—that the Balkan "powder keg" still nurtures local ethnic conflicts and fiery arguments. Some American theatre-goers might expect a play about the Balkans, written by a playwright born over there, to include all that: passion, war, conflict, overdramatic journeys and reversals. They won't be disappointed by the Immigrants Theatre Project's production of Marko the Prince by Jovanka Bach, who died two years ago after a long battle with cancer.

While the topic of this new play is fascinating and intriguing, the play itself is just too scattered to make much of an impact on anyone not already thoroughly informed about Georgia O'Keeffe's life. Much of the content of Natalie Mosco's script is lively and engaging, but she's tried to squeeze in far too much. This play needs some focused re-working in order to escape its current workshop quality and reach the point of feeling like a finished product.

Anthony Neilson?s play places too many demands on its actors as it tries to ricochet from comedy to pathos to psychosis.

In Barton Bishop's new drama Still the River Runs, two brothers decide to steal their grandfather's corpse out of the coffin and then journey with it through an eventful night so they can bury it in the woods. The older brother, Jesse, is some kind of cowboy in Central Florida. The younger, Wyatt, is serving in the army in Iraq. Their journey together is supposed to be revelatory and life-changing (and, in its way, is). It's also meant to be an exhilarating adventure, and it is fitfully funny and entertaining and involving. It turns out, ultimately, to be a sort of anti-war play; these sentiments, when finally communicated, prove to be too little too late to give the piece much weight, however.