134 stories by "Paola Bellu"
Whore's Eye View is a unique event, more of a lecture on the history of women's sexuality than the personal monologue one would expect from a sex-worker. Now at HERE Arts Center as part of a…
OUR SHOCKING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Rawshock, a new drama by Rita Lewis which opened last night for a limited run by Manhattan Rep at the Chain Theatre, is set in a psychiatric hospital. As is o…
EVERYTHING ABOUT KAFKAESQUE!, INCLUDING THE COCKROACH, PROVES THAT JAMES HARVEY HAS A HISS, I MEAN, HIT, ON HIS HANDS Full-time lawyer by day, prolific author Franz Kafka wrote at night and …
LET'S BE FRANKLIN Were our Founding Fathers good fathers to their children? Lloyd Suh's play Franklinland, directed by Chika Ike, now having its world premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre…
AN ASTOUNDING CAST CAN'T HELP TO SHAKE THE FEELING THAT WE'VE WITNESSED THIS BEFORE Pedro Antonio Garcia, a criminal defense attorney and a playwright, must have written The Witness Room as …
SOMETIMES THINGS HAVE TO GET VERSE TO GET BETTER Medea: Re-Versed, a Hip Hopera by Luis Quintero, has landed at the Frank Shiner Theatre and it is, without doubt, a memorable exp…
I'D LOVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SEE It is extremely hard to translate the work of writers as ingenious and imaginative as RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa, the father of Japanese s…
RESPLENDENT ISLAND Sri Lanka is the epitome of a tropical paradise with golden sand beaches and luxurious palm trees, regal elephants and sexy leopards, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean once kn…
A FASCINATING SUBJECT BOTH MOLD AND NEW In 2019, antibiotic resistance contributed to almost 5 million deaths globally affecting everyone, no matter what age, race or financial status. Here …
A DOWNSIZED HURRICANE Hurricane Season at Theatre Row is an experimental play where it's difficult to understand what is happening, and why, from the beginning to the very end. Produced by A…
MATTRESS HOLDS THE BREW THAT IS TRUE After 25 years, Once Upon a Mattress is back on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre, with a new adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino (creator of Th…
IF ONLY THIS MUSICAL WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH THE SAME EFFICIENCY AS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING Empire, at New World Stages, is unquestionably a musical created with an adult public in mind, p…
A MEETING THAT'S TOUGH TO INTERPRET Four months before the November 2016 presidential elections, a crucial meeting took place at Trump Tower between Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.; T…
PILOBOLUS IS re:INVIGORATING In 1971, at Dartmouth College, three non-dance students were asked by their composition teacher to create a dance piece. The students were Jonathan Wolken, Steve…
Humor leads to the release of endorphins in the brain, which help to control pain.  " RA Haig The Anatomy of Humor A play based on a grief group therapy session and life after an importan…
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GREAT JOB, HEAD TO THE HAYES THEATRE Two plays on therapy sessions presented at the same time a few blocks apart certainly show a phycological trend among young New Y…
IN A DELICIOUSLY CLAUSTROPHOBIC BOX AT OUT OF THE BOX Out of the Box Theatrics is presenting an intimate, hilarious, original play called Inspired by True Events " writtenÅ
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you m…
WE'VE GOT TO GET OURSELVES BACK TO THE GARDEN When The Sheen Center announced Ed. Weinberger's new play The Journals of Adam and Eve starring Hal Linden and Marilu Henner, I thou…
MUCH NOTHING ABOUT ADO Presenters Kelsey Grammer and Faith American Brewing Company offer a production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Gene Frankel Theatre that is a daring…
A SUMMER NIGHT THAT SMILES THREE HUNDRED TIMES Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's delightful musical A Little Night Music is is an adaptation of the Bergman's 1955 film Smiles of a Summer N…
EXTREME VALUE Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the Joyce Theater with Extreme Taylor, bringing back some of the Maestro's classic works. The program I saw included Private Domai…
TWAS BRILLIG! YOU'LL GET A HEART-ON IN THIS SEXY HOLE "All in the golden afternoon. / Full leisurely we glide" is part of the opening poem of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland…
A NEW SPECIES OF ACTRESS Maia Novi's Invasive Species is a topsy-turvy meta play that reflects its plot: a moment in the life of a confused young woman infected with the acting bug. Or…
JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY Julia Masli's show Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha has finally arrived at the SoHo Playhouse after a successful run last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe an…
