46 stories by "Aron Canter"
Her quizzers and yelps, the need of her sound, the holes in her anger revealed through the unsteady rocking of her delivery, created the tapestry that was her performance.
The objects could be anything generative, and Heather's choices are varied, sophisticated, heartfelt, and a fascinating insight into what interests this artist.
The anxiety vortex of What Makes Us Feel Good shoots one into the black hole of anxiousness.
We engulf and tangle with a political idea in a different way than how we listen and respond to a play.
The final frontier of outer space gets a wonderful stage production in Loading Dock Theatre's Spaceman, an engrossing and very fine piece of theater written and directed by Leegrid Stevens a…
Not long after the new Whitney opened in 2015, the museum exhibited an all-star lineup of abstract expressionists on their seventh floor, where they show their permanent collection. On the m…
Tom Nelis is a longtime New York theater vet that has worked seemingly everywhere and with everyone, from Indecent and The Visit on Broadway to performances with the Royal Shakespeare Com…
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is a tower of a film and one of the Western canon's foremost works concerning both the manipulated, volatile dynamics of power, …
In SOMEONEPLEASELISTENANDUNDERSTAND (they're wiretapping our brains), written by Brett Evan Solomon, directed by Kelsey Lurie, and performed at The Brick Theater as part of this year's Expon…
Director Gus Kaikkonon and the Mint Theater's production of Hindle Wakes, written by Stanley Houghton, is both authentic to the 1912 original and speaks to issues of our time — a…
Colin Campbell is an exciting young actor from Ireland who is making his New York City debut in Disco Pigs, the fast-paced, surreal punk language play that launched the career of Enda Walsh …
The SITI Company's production of Yukio Mishima's Hanjo completely concerns itself with the nuances and understanding of time and, critically, with the experience of time in the theater. Tran…
The wonder years of teendom are possibly the most potent of our lives, as we feel deeper, think different, see ourselves and others in new lights. Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God, the …
Right in time for the holiday season, right as were all in desperate need for some meaningful American male role models, Hold These Truths, written by Jeanne Sakata, a solo show up at the Sh…
Sarah Gancher is an exciting theater writer who has worked around the country and around the world. She is a frequent collaborator with many of the most interesting theater makers of all dot…
If you love '90s pop " and if you don't, really, just get out " then you will probably have a super fun time at Cruel Intentions The Musical, a remake of the ’90s film adaptation of…
Two couples battling through life in New York City take center stage in Jack Goes Boating, written by Bob Glaudini and presented by The Seeing Place Theater and director Erin Cronican. The c…
The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald at La MaMa ETC presented by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre and GOH Productions is a totally charming and interesting evening of theater.…
A rose of a show is up at The Tank, Wood Calls Out To Wood, written by Corinne Donly and directed by Sarah Hughes. A work of such generous inquiry and soft choices is a blessing to patient s…
There are many reasons to see a play, and if one of those reasons is that you adore the creative repercussions of the well-written play structure, Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, with a lovely…
The dark consequences of politics and a failing economy take center stage in the Workshop Theater's production of Mesquite, NV, by Leegrid Stevens, directed by Thomas Coté. Bouncy text and …
The chasm between our varied lives and theater’s capacity to reflect it is nothing to get down on; in fact, it’s a beautiful opportunity, and in many ways, is what this art form …
Sometimes, a play really surprises me. Tomorrow in the Battle, a high stakes drama on love and morality by Kieron Barry, directed by Tana Sirois, is an effective and fun piece of theater sto…
Dickie Beau's work is as personally spiritual as it is rigorous and inventive, as intimate as it is interesting, and his limited run at Abrons " part of the Crossing the Line Festival " was …
Whiskey Pants: The Mayor Williamsburg, a new musical directed and composed by Christian De Gre, is a remarkably silly new work, now up at the HERE Arts Center. And while some of the sillines…
