How do you tell a tale about famous female pirates through the ages? Obviously, for starters, you’ve gotta do it on a boat. Not so obviously, you make the stories of high adventure come alive with creative & fun shadow … Continue reading →

Firebone Theatre wants to tell you a story. Weaving the tale of the Trung Sisters, who led the first national uprising of the Vietnamese against the Chinese in 40 A.D., and the modern history of Pham Thi Hue, who started the first support … Continue reading →

Like New York City itself, the East Village is one of those places that seems mythical to anyone who’s never been there—less a location, and more an idea shaped by popular media. It could be easy to forget that people actually live … Continue reading →

“What lives on…what’s left when someone is gone?” The kinds of things that remain can run the gamut—music boxes, stories, ephemera, bottles of booze, memories—but they can all mean something. And exploring that meaning is at the heart of August … Continue reading →

If you stop and think about it, of all the classics being overrun by zombies these days, Romeo & Juliet is kind of the most logical to receive the undead treatment. Playwright Melody Bates was struck with just such a notion … Continue reading →

July 20, 1969 was a day that changed everything—the United States put a man on the moon. Seen through the lens of playwright/director Max Baker’s play Live from the Surface of the Moon, the history made that day wasn’t just extra-terrestrial. … Continue reading →

What do you do when you can’t fall asleep? Performer David Lawson is an insomniac. He’s also a solo performer. So it only makes sense that in his new show, Insomnia in Space, David shares with the audience his musings and discoveries from wakefulness in … Continue reading →

The company Hamlet Isn’t Dead is on quite a mission—to produce all of Shakespeare’s plays, in the order in which they were written. They’re up to Richard III, and as director Brian Gillespie (with the GSAS! hat trick!) points out at … Continue reading →

When you see time travel portrayed in popular media, no matter how noble the reason for leaping through history, it almost always ends up making things worse. That certainly seems to be the case in Mim Granahan‘s new play Making History, but, she … Continue reading →

What scares you the most? And would you do if those worst fears were realized? It was starting from that question that playwright Lisi DeHaas wrote her beautiful new play Leave Me Green, currently playing at The Gym at Judson. Listen in as … Continue reading →