What does it take to create the perfect farce? For starters, a top-notch cast. Secondly, a dynamic set. Above all, the show must be fast-paced. The frenetic energy necessary to keep a farce... Read more
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is currently presenting “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Director and producer Patrick A’Hearn correctly describes t... Read more
Bookcases filled with seemingly innocuous tchotchkes (worth 24 points in Scrabble, +50 if you manage to use your seven letters for a “bingo” on either side of the word “hot”) ensconce a puzz... Read more
With book, lyrics, and music by Anais Mitchell, the 2019 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, “Hadestown” is a rollicking and witty take on Greek mythological characters Orpheus a... Read more
Perhaps it is an unfair criticism of a performance that is meant to showcase the foundations and history of one of the oldest dance companies in America, but when you’re putting together a p... Read more
No one ever said the New York City Ballet (NYCB) was like any other dance company in the world. Everything is bigger with this world class troupe. This week’s performance at the Kennedy Oper... Read more
Historically, HIV has been a hugely misunderstood and stigmatized virus and the media has been none too kind to folks who’ve contracted it. Only relatively recently, with plays like... Read more
Originally premiering at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in 2010, Pearl Cleage’s “The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hu... Read more