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URINE FOR A GOOD TIME SO, MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES It’s the perfect time for a Urinetown revival. Twenty-four years after its successful Broadway debut, City Center’s Encores! returns with a rousing production. This satirical musical takes place in a dystopian future where a severe water shortage has led to a draconian system of…

A COLORFUL, KINETIC AND PUPPET-FILLED POW Emilio’s A Million Chameleons at Soho Playhouse offers family-friendly, fabulously frenzied fun. Like many offerings aimed at, or at least semi-targeted, to kids, it’s brief—just under an hour—but packed with energy. And that’s an understatement. But the frantic, almost unrelenting, race and pace is justified, not only catering to…

YOU MAY NEVER LOOK AT YOUR LAPTOP THE SAME WAY AGAIN Is Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI, our friend? Does this ubiquitous development make our lives easier, cleaner, more efficient? Or, like Frankenstein’s monster, will this carefully crafted design eventually turn on its creators, causing havoc and terror for human society? This is…

Learning another language is like becoming another person. — Haruki Murakami In 2008 Iran, four very different people struggle to learn a new language—a language that promises new opportunities, both personal and professional. It may not flow as naturally or sound as pleasing as their native Farsi, but that hardly matters. English holds a global…

NYC PREMIERE OF RENÉ MARQUÉS’ LOS SOLES TRUNCOS René Marqués‘ seminal work, Los Soles Truncos, stands as a cornerstone of Puerto Rican classical theater. Written in 1958, the play is set against the historical backdrop of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring themes of love, jealousy, the passage of time, and the cultural…

RATS AND POLITICS TOGETHER? WHO EVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING! In the wildly entertaining and mind-bending Symphony of Rats, which I had the pleasure of experiencing at REDCAT in Los Angeles last October, the President of the United States embarks on a surreal journey filled with phantasmagorical encounters. Flanked by his presidential aides, he…

Based on the play by Josefina López and HBO’s Real Women Have Curves (screenplay by Josefina López and George LaVoo), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical is set to begin performances on April 1 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, ahead of an opening night on April 27, 2025. Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba will make her…

MIND FOR GOLD Vinny DePonto, the Brooklyn-based mentalist, is undeniably a master showman—and a strikingly handsome one at that (I’ll draw a comparison to Jake Gyllenhaal). Like all magicians, the heart of his one-man show lies not in the tricks themselves (though they are breathtaking) but in his thought-provoking interaction with the audience. With Mindplay,…

Drop everything! Shawn Mendes, Cécile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner will appear as special guest artists this Thursday, January 16 for the second performance of The Energy Curfew Music Hour Season 2. Featuring the band Punch Brothers, fronted by singer-mandolinist Chris Thile, the musical variety show at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre will be recorded live and released as an Audible Original. For tickets (just…

RUNNING FOR ONE’S LIFE Under the vision of Founder and Artistic Director Susan Feldman, St. Ann’s Warehouse – one of the most eclectic and vibrant venues in New York – is now presenting another cutting-edge production, the North American premiere of Iranian writer and director Amir Reza Koohestani’s play Blind Runner, a moving hymn to freedom. Performed…

A SPARKLING, SPIRITED PIRATES The Pirates of Penzance is a spirited lampoon of Victorian morality, skewering its pretensions and hypocrisies while also poking fun at the lackluster operas and ballets that dominated English stages from 1871 to 1896. The legendary duo of William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, celebrated as the quintessential librettist-composer partnership of…

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way… When Tolstoy wrote that line in Anna Karenina, he hadn’t met the Dahls yet – that unforgettable family in Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love, exploding nightly at the Helen Hayes on Broadway. If only he could have observed them at their…

A letter is a blessing, a great and all-too-rare privilege that can turn a private moment into an exalted experience. – Alexandra Stoddard The holidays have faded into memory, and the bitter chill of winter days have settled in. But fear not — when the frost bites, the theatre offers warmth, and somewhere out there,…

WAKING US UP TO WOKENESS Playwright Jonathan Spector makes an impressive Broadway debut with Eureka Day, a strikingly relevant and well-crafted production that convincingly captures the complexities and contradictions of contemporary cultural debates. His ability to balance humor and drama to address divisive issues such as political correctness resonate strongly well after the 100-minutes are…