172 stories by "Tony Marinelli"
'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all i…
At the center of it all stands Apple, whose performance is nothing short of revelatory. As Catherine, she is brittle yet unbowed; as Hannah, she radiates vitality and purpose. Her voice"both…
To have emerged from a childhood like Zoë Kim's"with enough self-awareness, critical distance, and sheer emotional stamina to craft a piece of theater with even a hint of uplift"is in its…
In "Heaux Church," writer-performer Brandon Kyle Goodman does not so much deliver a sermon as they detonate one"turning the pious pulpit upside down and shaking loose its centuries of shame,…
Under Carsen Joenk's clean, clever direction, Scotti's writing finds a delicate equilibrium " biting, funny, and deeply humane. The quartet of women are precisely dressed by designer Iliana …
Ari'el Stachel in his one-man show "Other" at Greenwich House Theatre (Photo credit: Ogata Photography) In his solo show Other, now unfolding with searing intensity at the intimate Greenwich…
To describe "Oratorio" is to flirt with the inadequacy of language. It is a musical work"a sung-through piece in the formal lineage of the oratorio, that 17th-century form that eschews stagi…
Jen Tullock in the one-woman play "Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Maria Baranova) In Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God, the mesmeri…
"Italian American Reconciliation" may not be peak Shanley, but in the capable hands of this cast and creative team, it becomes something rare: a flawed but full-hearted theatrical reverie, e…
Under the weight of the show's ambition, Dylan Mulvaney is a star. Not in the manufactured influencer sense, but in the time-honored theatrical tradition of the charismatic truth-teller who …
It has taken nearly three decades, but Naomi Wallace's feverish proletarian dreamscape "Slaughter City" has finally carved its way onto a New York stage"and in doing so, has made a queasily …
Though it ends on a note of ambiguity"as any good speculative work should"'The Glitch" is resoundingly clear in its testament to the power of theater to interrogate our technological anxieti…
Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the …
The conceit is clever: each performance takes place in a real home, the precise address dispatched only the day before, like a speakeasy or secret society. A password grants entry. There's a…
Jennifer Kidwell's "we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism" is not so much a theatrical production as it is a revelation"an offering, a conjuring, a glittering séance of self-exa…
And by the time we arrive at "Fantasmas""his 2024 HBO series that feels less like television and more like a guided tour through the psyche of a queer mystic armed with a glitter pen and a p…
Crafted with sensitivity and spectacle by playwright Darrah Cloud and brought to life with unflinching precision by director Sam Helfrich, "House of McQueen" dares to unravel the mythos of t…
Still, for a piece that purports to tackle the complexity of addiction, "Sober Songs" often fails to excavate its deepest layers. Relapses, romantic entanglements, suicidal ideation, and ear…
There's a lot going on in this new musical about Alan Turing"and perhaps too much. In attempting to encompass the breadth of Turing's extraordinary life, the production ends up overwhelmed b…
"well, i'll let you go," Bubba Weiler's exquisitely devastating new work, staged with unpretentious yet profound grace by director Jack Serio leading a magnificent cast at the Space at Irond…
Austin Phillips's puppet design deserves special mention. His owlet creation is imbued with uncanny charm"Wesley is clearly an owl, yes, but one whose subtle articulation suggests personalit…
Ambition, that perilous double-edged sword, can elevate a work of art to soaring heights"or leave it flailing in the rafters, reaching desperately for resonance it cannot quite grasp. Such i…
In a sharply observed and emotionally layered turn, "Prince Faggot" brings a fresh perspective to the classic "meet the parents" trope"with a royal twist. John McCrea's George, the openly ga…
In great theater, history is not merely recounted but resurrected with breath and pulse, defiance and hope. In 'At the Barricades," the indomitable company What Will The Neighbors Say? breat…
This is not merely a delightful evening of theatre"it is a defiant, sequined middle finger to theatrical complacency. The cast, many of whom trained under the maverick George Ferencz at La M…
