By Rob Hartmann I spoke to Rachelle Rak by phone. She's having a busy month: she premieres a new video at Marty Thomas Presents: Diva at Industry Bar on January 16th, and her one-woman show,…
By Byrne Harrison Underground is an exciting and vibrant look at the people that we see, or choose not to, on the subway every day. Some are familiar - the homeless, the candy kids, t…
By Byrne Harrison Is war really hell, or is it the abandonment of one's moral code during a time of war that is the true hell; the one that can never be outrun? Takeo Rivera takes on …
By Byrne Harrison Samantha Toh is a recent graduate from Stanford University. Despite her degrees in International Relations and East Asian Studies, she believes she actually has the soul o…
Review by Mark A. Newman Unfortunately, I write this review with a heavy heart as only last night it was announced that Lysistrata Jones would end its Broadway run after less than a month a…
By Byrne Harrison With several years experience in the domestic violence field, Zoë Flowers is the founder of Highest Good Consulting (HGC). HGC provides training and program management …
By Byrne Harrison Joanna Hoffman is a spoken word poet originally from Silver Spring, MD and now living in Brooklyn. In 2006, she was on the DC/Baltimore National Poetry Slam team whi…
By Byrne Harrison Eboni Hogan is an award winning performance poet, author and teaching artist, who often moonlights as a Vargas girl, albeit a heavily tattooed one. Born in the Bronx to an…
By Byrne Harrison ShadoKat is "rapidly becoming a leading force in the spoken-word world" (Home News Tribune, 2007). A New Jersey Native, ShadoKat has exploded upon the spoken word scene…
Review by Mark A. Newman The cast of Godspell is going to hell. That is, they would if there was a commandment that stated "Thou shalt not upstage thy Lord and savior" because they all do, e…
By Byrne Harrison Shadrack Boakye was born in Liberia, Africa during a crippling civil war that took the lives of over 200,000 citizens in the early 1990s. Along with his mother, Shadrack w…
By Byrne Harrison Caroline Rothstein is a New York City-based performance poet and nonfiction writer. A regular performer at the Nuyorican Poet's Café and a member of their 2010 slam team …
By Byrne Harrison Darian Dauchan is an accomplished solo performer and actor who has appeared on both Broadway (Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche) and Off-Broadway thea…
By Byrne Harrison Nabil Vinas is a first generation Dominican American, a graduate of CCNY, and co-founder of The Seven Collective Theatre Company. He is currently developing several film p…
By Byrne Harrison Kelly Zen-Yie is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has performed at over 500 venues worldwide including three seasons on "R…
Following up on the popularity of her appearances at "Fag Bash," "Showgirls," and other festive events in P'town last summer, Tawny Heatherton will arrive this yuletide season to debut her o…
Review by Judd HollanderPhoto by Richard Termine Absurdly simple, yet remarkably complex, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape shows the preciousness and fleetness of life. Starring John Hurt …
Review by Judd Hollander and Cynthia Leathers Titus Andronicus is perhaps the ultimate Shakespeare morality tale " and indeed, the bloodiest and most violent " about the repayment of past ac…
Our Christmas-themed title photo comes from A Molly Jolly Christmas featuring Andrea Alton as Molly "Equality" Dykeman. The photo is by Ron Lasko. The show's final performance is Dece…
By Byrne Harrison On December 17th, Hunter Auction Galleries will be holding an auction made of the items from various estates. Included in the auction are items from Rue McClanahan's…
By Byrne Harrison Last week I had a unique opportunity to see a pair of ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." Not just any pair, mind you, but the pair that were used during the clos…
Review by Mark A. Newman Photos by Joan MarcusIf you pass by the Broadhurst Theatre on West 44th Street and wonder why so many of the audience members light up a cigarette as they leave afte…
Reviewed by Judd HollanderPhotos by Pavel Antonov Cillian Murphy gives THE must-see performance of the year in the funny, touching, and ultimate soul-shattering Misterman, Enda Walsh's brill…
Review by Judd HollanderPhoto by Jen Maufrais Kelly Playwright Alex Goldberg seems to have been heavily influenced by the work of Conor McPherson, specifically by such plays as The Weir and …