“The Glass Menagerie” gets an affectionately loopy performance piece-style reworking by an engaging cast in an energetic Almodóvarean presentation.
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The Speed of Sound
Two young male and female singer-songwriters meet in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields in this engaging and bittersweet musical; life’s harshness intrudes.
Lone Star
Matt de Rogatis is awesome as a disaffected Texas Vietnam veteran in this expanded adaptation of deceased Southern author James McLure’s one-act play.
Make Me Gorgeous!
Wade McCollum is phenomenal as a now obscure mid-20th century gay male performer and writer in this exhilarating biographical solo show with music.
Scene Partners
Dianne Wiest is magnificent as a 75-year-old Wisconsin widow who moves to LA to make it show business in this zany odyssey that is given an epic production.
Ode To The Wasp Woman
Sean Young is triumphant as a washed-up B-actress in this uproarious yet poignant exploration of old Hollywood’s underside; four sad tales are enacted.
Sabbath’s Theater
John Turturro is titanic in this euphoric stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel about a mentally unraveling 64-year-old licentious puppeteer.
The Constant Wife
W. Somerset Maugham’s scintillating 1926 social comedy is given a fizzy revival by a NYC-based theater company devoted to artists over the age of 50.
The Death of Me Yet
David Dean Bottrell’s self-written solo show is an entertaining personal exploration about death comprised of well-crafted short, intertwined episodes.
King of the Jews
European Jewish collaboration with the Germans during the Holocaust is dramatized in this searing immersive presentation which is set in a bustling café.