theater

**** / ***** At the peak of Robin Williams’ career as a standup comic most other comics dreaded going on stage after one of the manic funnyman’s sets. He so dominated the audience and raised the level of energy in...

“It’s poignant to come back to the theater because it will point out how well we have weathered the time away from each other” said Kevin McKenzie about the return of live performances. World premiere of Zig Zag by Jessica...

Like many great artists, from Verdi to Mozart, never considered by educational institutions with a capital “i”, Carla Fracci also ran the risk of not being admitted to  La Scala Ballet School. Ballerina Carla Fracci (@padfootbry, twitter) Then, as the...

"The only thing that really stayed constant in my life was my passion for the stage. My mom said that before I was born I used to kick to the beat of the music they were listening to. I don't...

Pina Bausch © Piero Tauro It would be difficult to imagine what the theater of dance, or theater tout court, of the last forty years would have been without the paradigmatic experience and creativity of Pina (Philippine) Bausch. Born in...

Yesterday’s event featured short bits and monologues from a few of the plays that will perform in the following weeks as part of the festival. The performances included excerpts of As White as Fennel in a Salad with Andrea Ramosi,...

Francesca Ravera is starring in Neil LaBute's “The Way We Get By,” adding to her interesting variety of New York theater and film credits over the past several years. Francesca portrays a young woman disappointed  by love and overly susceptible to...

The play opens on August 9th, 1954, the day of Marcantonio’s death. Though a Catholic, Marcantonio was denied a Catholic burial by New York’s extreme right-wing Cardinal Spellman, and thus the action of the play centers around an imagined plea...

What do a dozen inmates at the MacDougall-Walker maximum-security prison in Connecticut; a dozen Yale theology students; 140 children from Kibera, a neighborhood on Nairobi’s periphery and the largest slum in Africa; and 1,000 residents of Ravenna; all have in...