THEATER AS A TEMPLE The Flea Theater commissioned 48 different playwrights to contribute short dramatic pieces to this tremendous production, which basically recounts all the narratives in the Bible from before the beginning of the universe to after its end.   The cycle’s list of authors contains newbies to some unexpectedly major names, from David Henry…

RAISING THE CLOWN BAR Did the TV series It give you nightmares for decades?   Does the art of John Wayne Gacy make you tremble?   Does dear old Bozo make you break out in hives?   If you suffer from coulrophobia – a fear of clowns – then Clown Bar, a site-specific production full of energy and…

STORMY ROMANCE It is sometimes the case that the plays that seem the simplest – three characters, a few dusty flats, a tiny, shoe-box set in a miniscule theater somewhere on the 12th floor of a building off of Times Square – is the work that has the most depth.   The Taste of It, John…

WHEN THE SAINTS COME DANCING IN Here’s a charming revue that sets to song and dance the words of the great poet Gertrude Stein, mistress of new language and one of the tremendous free spirits of the 20th century. If I were a critic of the heft and depth of, say, Stage and Cinema’s own…

PRO AND (EX-)CON In telling his true-life tale about being convicted of attempted murder and released following a hefty prison term, Joe Assadourian is proof that you can be a crook and still be a tremendously talented actor.   And, really, I don’t suppose anyone should be surprised at this idea.   Acting is merely the art…

RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE AS SURREAL BURLESQUE Delightful wouldn’t be a word I’d expect to use when describing a Robert Wilson show. But The Old Woman, adapted by Darryl Pinckney from an absurdist story by Daniil Kharms, and performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe, is just that. Whimsical, darkly funny, and disquieting throughout, Wilson’s striking spectacle…