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PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 5: Martin Hernandez and Terry MorganProduced by Julia StierIn Episode 5, Martin and Terry discuss “Detained” “Endgame,” “The Play You Want,” “Little Parts,” “In the Next Room,” and Steven comments on “The Hall of Final Ruin.” In Epiode 4, Socks, Joseph and Steven discuss Caligari’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Bronwell and […]
TrayfReviewed by Deborah KlugmanGeffen PlayhouseThru April 10RecommendedThe grass is always greener, they say.In Trayf, Lindsay Joelle’s tender winning play about friendship, an 18-year-old Hasidic Jew longs to experience something of the outside world, while a non-Jewish acquaintance who works in a mid-Manhattan record store is drawn to a more rigid and circumscribed way of life.The […]
The RevueReviewed by Joseph KlinkThe Colony TheatreThrough March 27RecommendedWith an unmatched eagerness to return to theater, we may easily begin to romanticize our more questionable former decisions and experiences on the stage. Still, we braced ourselves and made them work. But were they ever, really, going to work?The Revue, a new musical created and written […]
The Hall of Final RuinReviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisOphelia’s JumpThrough April 10Recommended:Why do a play set in 1846 Santa Fe as the first Americano settlers were arriving in what was still Mexico?At first glance, Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos’s historical drama-fantasia seems a scholarly exercise with a dash of feminism thrown in — all six characters are female. […]
Night Fever: A Night Out in 1977Reviewed by Ryan LuévanoThree ClubsThrough April 9RecommendedDisco is back. Just Fix It Productions’ latest immersive story-telling experience transports audiences to a ‘70s disco club in the heart of Hollywood.They’ve transformed the Three Clubs into a glitzy disco club complete with a light up stage, fantastic disco lighting, an electric […]
Apartment Living Reviewed by Taylor KassPlaywrights’ Arena & Skylight Theatre CompanyThrough April 24It’s been two years, but is it still too soon for pandemic art? As we struggle to contextualize all the ways in which COVID-19 has altered us forever, the world premiere of Boni B. Alvarez’s Apartment Living offers an all-too-familiar summary of the early […]
PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 4: Socks Whitmore and Joseph KlinkProduced by Julia StierIn Epiode 4, Socks, Joseph and Steven discuss Caligari’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Bronwell and the Brontes, A Little Night Music, Jonathan Livingston Seagull,and more . . . In Episode 3, Ryan and Dana discuss “Abbale,” “Cages,” “What I Learned in Paris,” and […]
The Play You WantReviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Road Theatre CompanyThrough April 17RecommendedIn Bernardo Cubría’s The Play You Want, directed by Michael John Garcés, Bernardo (Peter Pasco), the central character, is a Mexican-American playwright who writes experimental plays about clowns, whom he views as universal symbols of humanity. Little would please Bernardo more than to be […]
