A late report on the funny and scary ‘Squealer’
Mixing elements of Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” and those backwoods Southern horror movies (i.e. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) Jonathan Blitstein has cooked up a wild and woolly play...
View Article‘Hypnotik’: dreaming while awake in the East Village
We get so used to small-scale, traditional storytelling in the theater that it can be hard to adjust to something surreal and non-linear like “Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Know” which opened at...
View Article‘Just Sex’: when Internet porn replaces real life
Brandt Johnson’s play “Just Sex” did so well at the Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival earlier this season that it has reopened at the same venue for an extended run through April 15. The...
View Article‘Judith of Bethulia’: somewhere Cecil B. DeMille is laughing
Charles Busch’s latest love/hate letter to Old Hollywood — “Judith of Bethulia” — is getting a test run through the end of the month at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan’s East Village, and...
View Article‘Delights’: scenes from a great star’s life (and imagination)
Ildiko Nemeth and her New Stage Theatre Company are presenting another beautiful puzzle of a theater piece — Fernando Arrabal’s “Garden of Delights” — at the Theater for the New City through Dec. 2....
View Article‘Jollification/Mortification’: magical connections at La Mama
Is it possible to love something you don’t really understand? I suppose we do that every day with our friends and family, but when it comes to plays and movies and books, people tend to get angry if...
View Article‘Cosmicomics’: Ildiko Nemeth’s big bang theory
The impossible-to-categorize director-writer-designer-filmmaker Ildiko Nemeth is back with another one of her funny and visually stunning stage pieces, “Cosmicomics,” which is running through April 19...
View ArticleA late report on ‘Electronic City’
“Where exactly am I?” a character asks early in “Electronic City” and we get no good answer. Like most of us today, the people in director/designer Ildiko Nemeth’s recent New Stage Theatre Company...
View ArticleIn praise of Charles Busch
In his curtain speech at Saturday night’s performance of “Cleopatra,” Charles Busch talked about his 40 year relationship with the Theater for the New City where he has put on a series of riotous...
View Article‘Lily Dare’: love letter to pre-Code Hollywood
There is something slightly lunatic about a major writer and performer putting together a new play for just 24 performances at a downtown Manhattan venue. That’s what Charles Busch has been doing at...
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