46 stories by "Aron Canter"
Brilliant Traces, written by Cindy Lou Johnson and directed by David Newer, is a love story set in a remote cabin in Alaska during a whiteout between a woman who is running away because she …
The Arctic Group’s Pomegrenade, written and directed by Ran Xia and performed at IRT, a cozy little space a stone’s throw from the Hudson River, is a Chuck Mee-style reimagining …
Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass are the most fun choreographers ever. They may also be the most fun people ever, but I haven’t met everyone so who can say. What you may miss at their …
In Petie, a new play written by and starring Lori Fischer and directed by Martha Banta, the dark mistakes that haunt us never leave the downstage corner of our minds. This well-performed, th…
Moshe Yassur is a longtime collaborator with the New Yiddish Rep, having directed their acclaimed productions of Waiting for Godot and Death of a Salesman, and he is at the helm of the…
Welcome to Sam's Tea Shack, a bazaar to house Sam Soghor's comedy routine/heart break — and a theatrical experience straight out of 1980s New York City. The work is a rumbling therapy …
Art and desire are the heart and driving force of the Scandinavian American Theater Company's production of The Baroness, written by Thor Bjørn Krebs, directed by Henning Hegland, and tra…
Our favorite place to catch live performance from your own laptop is having a festival of their own. Cennarium’s Promenade is a 10-day digital global performing arts festival, running …
The American family drama gets a contemporary and creative spin in a very nice new play, The Itch, written by Alexandra Zelma-Doring and directed by Theresa Buchheister. A smart and well dev…
Lone Star, the James McLure play presented by Nine Theatricals and directed by Pete McElligott, is All-American beer and cigarettes and backyards. A damn funny and effective ode to dirty boy…
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As I digest the play The Anthropologists Save the World! by the theater collaborative The Anthropologists and directed by company founder Melissa Moschitto, the challenge of art making is cr…
Fernando Arrabal's love for artists is only matched by the scale of his imagination — and his is one of the most colorful minds to ever write words for the theater. But it's an Old Tes…
For four young women in Cameroon, independence and self-worth is found in soccer — well, football — in Melisa Tien's Yellow Card Red Card, directed by Tamilla Woodward. These wom…
Dixon Place is hosting a really great, totally passionate, very well crafted and well developed performance in Chesney Snow's The Unwritten Law, directed by Rebecca Arends. It is the story o…
The impulse to make art about one’s life story has fueled many great artists, but getting it right is a challenge. Dear Jane, a very nice and hardworking play written by Joan Beber …
One of the great plays is being produced at the Access Theater: Cloud 9, the first of Caryl Churchill's many magnum opuses. Yes, Caryl Churchill, without question a top ten English language …
1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs, by the collective Yara Arts Group, is ambitious, and if you choose to attend, for real, good for you, you're ambitious yourself. This play concerns…
The Bard, done right, is a bonafide good time, and a good time is had at Simon Godwin's production of Measure for Measure at Theater for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center. H…
Some stories are forgotten and never told. Others are misremembered. Then still, there are stories we remember but don't understand — and these are ripe for the creative imagination. T…
Ya know at a party, when it seems like it’s all coordinated by an act of God? Or at least choreographed by a real professional? The Reception, a choreo-drama created by Sean Donovan…
