Imagine buying a gun… Imagine that, right? I mean it is a pretty standard thought. Also imagine you have a job that is crushing your soul, and your boss is also the father of the girl you currently live with. Then the girlfriend does not approve of said gun, and in your desperation to get rid of it you end up […]

Halloween keeps rolling with its takeover of this city. And with it, the minds of the most twisted individuals brings to us the most terrifying experiences to life. And in a basement, under a St. Marks building, in this old and fruitful city, one of those mad scientists you think about exercises his work for an audience which loves the […]

Do you feel that in the air? The dreadful joy of October is here. The air gets crisp, the ghouls take over, and Halloween is there serving as the light at the end of the tunnel… or month. Yes people! We have entered the spookiest season, where you are bombarded with plenty of bloody options to have some macabre good […]

Right now, at this very moment, the Origin’s 1st Irish Festival has taken over the lovely spaces of 59E59. This is a pretty important piece of trivia to know, since it is the only theatre festival in the world dedicated to Irish playwrights, which is crazy to think about when you count the number of great works that have come […]

There’s so many things that can make a production successful. It can have an incredible technical presence in which the audience can find themselves lost. This can mask poor storytelling easily, just as the ability to tell a good story can hide the limited technical aspects. Some will create philosophies that will change your life. Some make you think about […]

On August 22 in the early ’70s, a man named John Wojtowicz held a Chase Bank hostage to be able to pay for his partner’s sex-change operation. The bizarre story caught the public’s attention, and the men became media darling. At the end… well, I won’t tell you. There’s already a little adaptation of this story floating around if you […]

As a critic, I go to the theater a lot. Most times it’s not even to review a show. I love theater. I love the intimacy it provides. I love the imagination that is triggered and the innovative way in which it keeps evolving. To make a stage into another place, transport us into another world, and make us care […]

Brace yourself, New York. It’s the middle of August which means Fringe NYC has taken over our precious city. A great time to be a theater lover, this annual producer’s extravaganza is ripe with the up-and-coming talent that will dominate the scene for years to come in our city and beyond. Some productions come ready. Impressing everyone. Making sure the […]

A soldier walks out of the train that just brought him safely home from war. In the station, a man and his wife pass by while girls wait for a soldier with bouquets of local flowers. One of them eager to kiss him, to love him, but the soldier is not the man she expected. And he hasn’t come from […]

In the 1960’s the world was in turmoil. Things were changing fast and fully. It was a brave new world fighting the old traditions that had created the chaos. In Cuba, a new government was taking over. Caught in the middle of a senseless cold war that stripped them of many rights and with a leader with questionable motivations who […]