An earthquake can"either literally or figuratively"rock the foundations of a person's life. In this two act, "song-play," with music by John Adams and libretto by June Jordan, it's 1994…
Doing standup is about sharing the contradictory mess of being human " and exposing the hypocrisy of politics
Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi is a comedian and performer
I've always been enraged by t…
★★★★☆ Chaucer's outspoken, sex-positive "Wife of Bath," as updated by Zadie Smith, has some insights to share, along with a remedial agenda.
The post The Wife o…
  BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE. UGLY WORLD    Unexpectedly enthralled, I spent an hour and a half eavesdropping on six nuclear physicists, and couldn't be more glad to have caught…
By Julia Hune-Brown, Keira Loughran. Julia Hune-Brown and Keira Loughran discuss crafting Then Is Now, a concept album/video playlist they created through conversations with Chinese Canadian…
In 1929, a group of avant-garde artists in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, put on a jazz musical revue called "Hello, This Is Radio 477!" celebrating the city's lone radio stati…
It is more than 15 years since Enda Walsh's play The Walworth Farce arrived in London and, like many big hits, the scale of its popularity then has been matched by the speed with which it ha…
By SHARON EBERSON NEW YORK, N.Y. — My return to New York after more than three long years away was a three-day, four-show whirlwind (reviews to come) that had to include time for the newes…
Existentialism, absurdism, clowning, vaudeville, country music and a gentle queer romance all collide in this strange but rather lovely show. And Then The Rodeo Burned Down is sometimes remi…
King's Head theatre, LondonChloe Rice and Natasha Roland deliver a playful two-hander about the wild west, power structures and the costs of theatre
Like Dolly Parton sang in 9 to 5: it's en…
Vernon Vanriel was a talented athlete who fought crack addiction, was sectioned twice and beaten up by police officers. Finally he ended up stateless in Jamaica. A new play tells his extraor…
"Measure" is one of those bizarre Shakespearean plays that resides in the space between comedy and tragedy"something that few of the Bard's works do. Yet you will find yourself mesmerized wi…
