Sometimes, as a director, you run into those scripts that you know you just have to do. For Michael Sladek, that script was Richard Dresser’s Below the Belt, an absurdist take on life and work in the corporate environment — … Continue reading →

Retro Productions makes theatre about where we came from, and how far we’ve come — and it’s theatre that reminds us that sometimes, we’ve still got a ways to go. For director DeLisa White and actress/Retro Artistic Director Heather Cunningham, the … Continue reading →

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum… …and a whistleblower, a high-school anti-bullying activist, an assassin, a Scottish sea captain, a U.S. president, Barbara Walters… All these characters (and more) collide in various bars across the borough of Brooklyn as … Continue reading →

Over the past several decades, the fundamental definition of “family” has changed — and the collaborators of Collaboration Town have come of age through some 30-odd of those years. In their new show Family Play (1979 to present), previously titled Help Me to … Continue reading →

A few years back, director, accidental Eugene O’Neill enthusiast, and TMLMTBGB actor Christopher Loar thought up a fun little sketch for that long-running, long-titled New York Neo-Futurists show (if you don’t know it from the acronym, click this link, then go see … Continue reading →

It’s been a good few seasons for Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, his adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera — Martha Clarke’s version is currently running at The Atlantic, Marvel Rep’s production of Feingold’s translation was up for a Drama Desk … Continue reading →

David Stallings‘s play Dark Water is the tale of a mother turtle as she and her son negotiate the sea along with a host of other animals — like a land-loving dolphin, a vain heron, and a gluttonous gull — … Continue reading →

We all make terrible decisions at some point. With any luck, those terrible decisions only lead to some heartache, or maybe just some slight lingering shame, perhaps a small scar or two. But for some terrible decisions, the consequences are … Continue reading →

You probably remember that old saying, “The clothes make the man.” And while you might want to dispute it, or actively fight it (my stint as a goody-two-shoes honors student male with long hair in high school was my small … Continue reading →

The New York Shakespeare Exchange recently presented Othello, setting the play’s Venice in a contemporary urban setting, with the Bard’s military officers becoming ranking police officers. For adapter/director Cristina Lundy, the analogues between Shakespeare’s tragedy set amidst the jealousies of … Continue reading →