A piece with strong elements holds your attention and leaves you wondering Molly Serenduke On the surface, Americans care about their neighbor, but in truth and in practice, is this simply a way for the decadent West to tell themselves that they're moral and ethical? This is one of the central questions posed in Allie Avital and Alia Azamat Ashenazi's The Naked Woman. The play revolves around a Soviet immigrant family struggling with a generational divide materializing as a b

Catherine Weingarten's funny piece will make you reconsider your next coffee order Molly Serenduke Catherine Weingarten's I Want a Unicorn Frappe!!! is a funny, vibrant satire about addiction, love, marriage and societal expectations in today's zany world. We start in a Starbucks. The director Alex Tobey and the design team do a nice job using the intimate Tank space to amplify the stylized, kooky world of this play. Our protagonist Jenny (played very nicely by Rachel Lin) bu

Are you writing a play? Or playing The Sims? Ulises Ramiro There's a genocide happening in Sudan. Being gay in Saudi Arabia is punishable by death. 90% of people in Syria live below the poverty line. The list of horrible things going on in the world goes on and on and on. So why the hell do I care about four high school girls hanging out in their parent's basement in the suburbs playing The Sims? Eliya Smith's Dad Don't Read This takes a setting and premise likened to that of

Take Me To Dollywood is wild and interesting Molly Serenduke Harris Singer's Take Me To Dollywood at La Mama is many things, but it is definitely not boring. At its core, the experimental play is about Harris Singer, exploring themes of sexuality, love, pain, self-discovery and self-preservation. The director, Luke Wisniewski, and the design team work well to bring Singer's unique vision to life in a consistently visually engaging way. The piece has no shortage of interesting

An interesting Fringe show, but on its own? A different story. Ulises Ramiro The we're-famous-now Soho Playhouse brings in show after show from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and there's not much mystery why. With the success of Fleabag and others, it only reinforces that success at Edinburgh could mean success elsewhere. Hardlove falls into this category, a show that did well at Edinburgh and is now giving it a go in a 9pm slot at The Soho Playhouse's bar space, the Huron Clu

Check your phone at the door, literally Ulises Ramiro Body Unredacted is a collaboration between Blessed Unrest's ensemble and two playwrights, Damen Scranton and Laura Wickens, plus direction and choreography from Artistic Director Jessica Burr. It’s a piece that's about a lot of things. Beauty, love, humanity, just to name a few. There’s a lot of nudity. I’m talking A LOT. The nudity isn't exploitative, though, and it compliments many of the core threads. One of the stronge

A superb production rocks The Cell Molly Serenduke There are times in theatre that a piece extends its hand at something far out of reach for most plays. James Clements' Beauty Freak is one of those pieces. To begin, the play makes you root for and feel bright and energized and riveted about a Nazi, Leni Riefenshtal. The play's ability to do this is the work of a top-tier collaboration between Clements, director Danilo Gambini, the entire design team and the star Baize Buzan.

Molly Serenduke There’s nothing like gasping with 295 other people to make you remember why you love theatre. Bubba Weiler's Well, I’ll Let You Go expertly involves you so that said gasp, and other wonderful moments, are inevitable. I saw the original run of Well, I’ll Let You Go in Brooklyn last summer, and was worried the change of venue would make the show lose some of itself. It did not. I was worried the casting changes would take away from the allure. It did not. I was