In case you missed it the first time around, you’re in luck because Pyaasa is currently being remounted at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille. Written and performed by Anusree Roy, this is a one-woman show detailing the story of a family of Untouchables in India. Set in Calcutta, the story revolves around 11 year-old Chaya, […]
The only way that Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick’s former off-Broadway musical comedy Disaster! could succeed on a Broadway stage is if it thoroughly embraced its own absurdity. Thankfully, Disaster! does just that, and the results are a guffaw-inducing two-hour romp through insanity dressed up in garish 70’s attire. This musical tribute to terrible calamity […]
This is part three of our continuing coverage of the New York Frigid Festival in the Lower East Side. Lil Women: A Rap Musical When you think of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s famous tale of female friendship, family and forays into adulthood, your mind is likely overwhelmed by conjured images of freestyle rap battles […]
Imagine living in a box like a mouse. Now imagine never having any real contact with close friends and relatives and only being able to hear them speak. This seems strange and unreal, but it is exactly what audiences feel when going to see All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever at the Vaults. This […]
Written and performed by Simeon Taole, The Space Between is a story about identity, love, and how space and time influence both of these things. The story begins with a small boy in America – Winston – who is in love with Celeste. The trouble is, they are both nine years old, and Winston’s family […]
Probably Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, there is undoubtedly going to be added pressure to present something new when performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and that is certainly what we get with Filter Theatre’s production at the Lyric Hammersmith. A total farce from start to finish, this zany show is a wonderful comedy fest that successfully […]
Well Born is a new play by Celeste Percy-Beauregard (SoCo Theatre/Truth’n’Lies), co-directed by Michelle Alexander and Darwin Lyons and currently playing at Artscape Youngplace. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down in the slightly cramped audience space in what felt like (and probably was) an old classroom. Happily, what followed was one […]
I liken this play to violent videos available on the internet: they are tempting to watch, may be objects of temporary immersion, yet they are ultimately unedifying. They instill little in us other than a general contempt, for their structure and perspective are highly objective and therefore contrast rather soullessly to the personal and spiritual […]