335 stories by "Nicole Serratore"
Anne Washburn loves her meta-narratives and with 10 Out of 12 we watch a play about tech-ing a play. Although this is for all intents and purposes a "backstage" drama that is at times wicked…
Photo by Sanne PeperAs mother and son wrap their hands around each other's hands, there is kindness, understanding, frustration, control, and acquiescence. Sam Gold's minimalist produc…
Cynthia Erivo is a hurricane of hurt on Broadway.
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In a massive room full of people seated in hammock chairs wearing noise-canceling headphones, you could still hear coughing. I gave up counting the coughs after 40 but a healthy remind…
I reviewed only a handful of the 70 shows I saw at EdFringe. So here are my links to those reviews and just a few notes on works I didn't get to write about otherwise (and I have a separate …
Somehow this review got left in my drafts...so I'm reviving it now...with some spoilers. Annie Baker peels back the layers of a relationship in crisis in her new play, John. With an eerie …
Scottish poet, storyteller, and artist Ross Sutherland arrives in New York this week with a show called Stand By for Tape Back-Up. It's a meditation on grief, nostalgia, and the odd bi…
Some thoughts on Forest Fringe 2015. Another year of exciting work by artists who were largely new to me. Week OneThis Is Not A Magic Show: Vincent Gambini's sleight of hand show like his c…
Walking out of I Heart Catherine Pistachio, my first thought was "What the ever-loving fuck was that?" My second thought was, "Damn, I really didn't want that to end." Lee Mattinson's unusu…
Signature Theatre hosted a short pre-show talk with Annie Baker and Sam Gold to discuss their artistic collaboration. This coincides with the fifth show they are working on together, J…
There is toe-tapping and foot-stomping in Daniel Fish's production of Oklahoma! but with the first crash of electric guitar reverb in the show, it quickly becomes apparent this iteration is …
Download file It may feel like the only show actually happening in July is a little scrappy musical called Hamilton but we found a lot of other shows worth your time. Â We’ve got som…
With perhaps a nod too far into camp at times the Red Bull Theater production of John Ford's famous, bloody, incest tragedy still managed to show the hypocrisy and vanity of men, the power o…
Self portrait, 1985Ink on boardCollection of Harvard University© The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.orgAl Hirschfeld's career as the dynamic, visual chronicler of the…
Perhaps a week after visiting Berlin was the wrong time to see a "new" American musical set in post-war Europe. I had just been served a healthy dose of post-war European history from …
Where do addicts, hookers, strippers, and fuck ups end up? In New Orleans, apparently the answer is the Hummingbird Motel on Airline Highway. A crumbling rundown motel that like all its de…
As furniture disappeared into dark chasms and gaping holes remained on stage, I felt a deep sense of anguish. This re-staging of Fun Home on Broadway had cracked the story open for me …
The voice in the headphones, Heather, tells us to have a dance party and shake our booty. In the midst of Nolita I'm disco dancing to a terrible disco track. Public dancing is no…
Photo by Carol RoseggAs the room shakes and the light fixture swings like a pendulum, experiencing an earthquake in Fukushima makes the anxiety of living in the nuclear age quite acute. …
Sufjan Stevens wiped tears from his eyes as he moved his way through song after song about his mother and her death. His show at the Beacon Theatre this week corresponded with his recent&n…
Max Baker's play Live from the Surface of the Moon fumbles its way through feminism and sexism on the cusp of 1970. What could have been an interesting window into the relationships be…
"Double suicide and reanimation creates a bond that is tough to break."--JulietMelody Bates's play R&J&Z (Romeo & Juliet & Zombies) starts from where Shakespeare left off. As…
As I watched David Greenspan's dreamy memory play about gay identity through the years, a film actress from days of yore, and the challenges of ever really knowing anything from the past, I …
Laura Eason (Sex with Strangers) writes lively and vibrant characters and I always want to spend more time with them. She has assembled an array of characters with quirks and passions in T…
Giving a stage this large over to flex dancers at the Park Avenue Armory feels like a radical act. The scale and context of the production of FLEXN can't be ignored. We're in a storied build…
