335 stories by "Nicole Serratore"
Photo credit: Ben Arons"I must admit to you now. I have no plan."There's something about a heavy rain that makes you think maybe it will wash away all the pain. But the poetry of rain …
I started writing this months ago...but never got around to finishing it. But it keeps coming up in conversations I have so I'm posting it now for posterity. It's a bit of messy…
I popped into the Tate Modern to kill some time while a friend had a meeting and blindly wandered into the Conflict, Time, Photography exhibit. And I'm glad I did. It's a moving,…
When the young Revolutionary War upstarts in a tavern shout "Showtime" and burst into rap, it's a massive collapsing of history and culture and says those rowdy upstarts who dance through …
The musical Brooklynite breaks the superhero mold — Composer Peter Lerman was working on a movie with director Michael Mayer when Mayer offered him an unexpected opportunity. Would Ler…
The last thing I thought I would feel at Pretty Filthy, the Civilians's new musical about the porn industry, was kinship. As a newbie to the world of internet content, I wanted to ra…
With the exactitude and agony of flaying skin off of another human, Winners and Losers goes to work on the layers of humanity, painfully peeling back privilege, class, education, experienc…
I once met a man who just kept saying the word "wackadoo." This thought popped into my mind as I was watching Kate Benson's colorful, kooky, and truly wackadoo play A Beautiful Day in …
"Your family's the only place where time is dense...where age is compressed." Photo by Hunter CanningA family keeping secrets is not new territory in the theater but Brian Watkins's Wyoming…
Andrew Schneider's show YOUARENOWHERE has closed but we hope it gets a second life in New York. I've also maybe promised most of the United Kingdom that it would probably tour there ev…
The rest of the critics are going to talk about Honeymoon in Vegas as a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-tries-to-get-girl-back story. They'll rightly celebrate the efferves…
"Time really does just go away."Early on in YOUARENOWHERE I was mad that it was going to end. It had hardly begun and already I was lamenting that at some point I would have to leave this d…
"Two remarkable eyes. We stared into each other's eyes without moving."There's something incredibly liberating about durational installation work. Rather than the tight focus required…
The APAP conference has put together some dynamic and diverse panels showcasing artists who are breaking down barriers, working across genres, and using art to bring the world together.&nb…
You may be wondering why suddenly in January you start hearing about all sorts of small theater festivals around New York City. The reason these festivals exist is because of the Ass…
The black lake is so inviting. Filling the entirety of the Park Avenue Armory's drill hall with a slick black pool of water, with two pianos in the middle, Douglas Gordan's insta…
Limited edition Churlish Meg originalSomewhere between Bedford-Nostrand and Flushing Avenue I'm crying. It's the G train so literally no one cares. A girl cries on the G train every twenty…
I enjoyed another year of UK theater-going. I saw almost 50 shows out of the country. From what I saw, these were my favorites: 1. A View From the Bridge (Young Vic):…
Year-end self-reflection is a bitch. Looking over my theatrical year I saw a lot of high-profile works that did not quite live up to their potential and discovered some new artists I had not…
"I'm really terrible at being a person."Samuel Hunter again manages to find that painful spot in your heart where longing, grief, love, and disappointment lie and reveals it ever so gently t…
"What's sacred to you?" Ayad Akhtar's new play is a sly devil. From its opening moments in a windowless cement block cell, you may think this is a play about torture or jihadists or …
When the Forest Fringe microfestival descended on New York in October something was missing. It was not just the amazing cheese soup I ate at the Drill Hall cafe at this year's Forest …
With breathing tableaux and an emotionally wrought story, this John Adams-Alice Goodman opera delivers a punch to the gut. I'm not sure I've experienced a more chilling theatrical experien…
"We're not a family that talks."Samuel D. Hunter has become the poet laureate playwright of the washed-up and emotionally crippled. His past Idaho plays (A Brand New Boise, The Whale, The F…
Sure everyone is all focused on Jeremy Jordan being cast in the Parade concert today or still recovering from yesterday's Encores' Off-Broadway series....But I'm pretty excited about this ca…
