First staged at Don’t Tell Mama, Midnight at the Never Get has found an an ideal home on St. Peter’s stage, where it unfolds like an intimate cabaret show but is in fact a theater piece with an engaging plot. Midnight skillfully weaves the best of both genres into a delightful and heartfelt 90-minute experience of story and song. [Read more…] about York Theatre Company’s ‘Midnight At The Never Get’ is Not to be Missed
Review: KINK HAÜS Serves It Up Fierce at LaMama
Fucked-up and fierce, fast and furious, funny and faggoty, fabulous and fantastic, KINK HAÜS is strutting its stuff at LaMama Downstairs. [Read more…] about Review: KINK HAÜS Serves It Up Fierce at LaMama
Gabri Christa’s MAGDALENA Engages at TheaterLab
A small, black porcelain doll, gently bathed in a warm light, peacefully occupies center stage as theater-goers takes their seats. The light intensifies, and someone begins speaking; all eyes turn toward a voice coming from the the audience. As naturally as if speaking from her own living room, filmmaker/choreographer Gabri Christa proceeds to tell us how she first came to know the doll, originally given to her mother, Magdalena, and which eventually became her own. Upon first encountering the doll, Ms. Christa didn’t know that black dolls even existed, let alone how this one could have made its way into the hands of her mother as a little Dutch white girl. [Read more…] about Gabri Christa’s MAGDALENA Engages at TheaterLab
Theater Review: THE AЯTS Confounds and Compels at La Mama
The 2018 Tony Award-winning theater La Mama opens its fall season with the world premiere of THE AЯTS, a new docu-drama about the history of public arts funding in the US. [Read more…] about Theater Review: THE AЯTS Confounds and Compels at La Mama
Multiple-Threat Tye Blue on His New Musical Parody ‘Titanique: In Concert’
Co-writer/director/producer Tye Blue shares his passion for Titanique: In Concert, a musical parody of the hit film Titanic featuring the songs of Celine Dion. [Read more…] about Multiple-Threat Tye Blue on His New Musical Parody ‘Titanique: In Concert’
Review: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’
blue…purple…green…orange…white…violet…blood. Last appearing at The Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival in 2015, Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY has once again taken to this iconic dance stage with the world premiere of Beamish’s new full-length work The Masque of the Red Death, inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story. [Read more…] about Review: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’
Review: Ben Strothmann’s ‘Coming Clean’ at the 4th Annual QUEERLY Festival
One of Ben Strothmann’s earliest NYC memories is when his voice teacher tells him, “Ben, you are living your life in a constant state of reaction to people and things around you. You’re not an authentic person.” [Read more…] about Review: Ben Strothmann’s ‘Coming Clean’ at the 4th Annual QUEERLY Festival
Theater Review: ‘Little Rock’ Shines at the Sheen Center
The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture currently hosts Little Rock, a play based on the true story of the “The Little Rock Nine”, the first black students known to attend their city’s formerly segregated Little Rock Central High School three years after the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ruled separating students based on race was unconstitutional. [Read more…] about Theater Review: ‘Little Rock’ Shines at the Sheen Center
Review: Brad Birch’s New Play ‘Tremor’ is Shaking Foundations at 59E59
59E59 Theaters’ latest Brits Off Broadway offering brings Tremor, a new play by Brad Birch, recipient of the Harold Pinter Commission. [Read more…] about Review: Brad Birch’s New Play ‘Tremor’ is Shaking Foundations at 59E59
New York Deaf Theatre Celebrates its 38th Season With ‘Maple and Vine’
I was born clinically deaf. My mother, a nurse and homemaker, needed a solution to protect my hearing aids, transistors and wires from my tiny, inquisitive hands. She designed a little blue jacket for me to wear on which she sewed two small, strategically placed pockets onto the back of my shoulders; into these she put the transistors, and, after crossing the wires behind my neck so I couldn’t reach them, she topped off my towhead with a matching blue “bonnet” to cover my ears, again to keep the hearing aids out of reach from my wandering fingers. There’s not a picture of me before the age of two where I’m not wearing this dandy little outfit. [Read more…] about New York Deaf Theatre Celebrates its 38th Season With ‘Maple and Vine’