Theater Review | 'Kleynkunst!': At a Yiddish Cabaret, Hope, Despair and Song
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This illuminating, ultimately touching show revisits the little-known but vibrant Yiddish cabaret that flourished in Warsaw from the early 1920s until it disappeared by Nazi design.
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Pain, alienation and the thousand varieties of loneliness that flesh is heir to: these are the topics that Abi Morganâs âTender,â a British play being given its New York premiere by Thirteenth Night Theater, means to address.
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Between January and June there will be 12 plays opening on Broadway. For those who like their words unsung, itâs a beautiful thing.
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The lives of lonely New Yorkers come together and fall apart in âUnconditional,â a bluesy, moody, ultimately draggy new drama by Brett C. Leonard that opened Monday night at the Public Theater.
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The stunningly staged, bizarrely ambivalent new musical is a sentimental yet sinister show steeped in Jungian shadows as seen at the Prince Edward Theater in London.
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There were times when I despaired. The screaming point came at the Edinburgh Festival, where successive performances of Plleas et Mlisande , Il trovatore (both emanating from Hanover State Opera) and Orfeo ed ...
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Werner Schwab would never be appointed cultural ambassador of Austria. As Trap Door Theatre's fiercely mad, no-holds-barred production of "People Annihilation or My Liver Is Senseless" makes exceptionally ...
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&quot;The history of the Broadway musical is the history of surprises,&quot; Michael Kantor says. &quot;Every single great, long-running show was not anticipated: Cats, a show about people pretending to be
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The surface of a production by the French-Austrian performance group Superamas is so shiny and so deeply comical that its pretty wrapping almost â but not quite â masks the seriousness of its core.
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The Wooster Group, the acclaimed experimental theater group, will be the resident company in a new theater in Mikhail Baryshnikovâs arts center in Manhattan.
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Cabaret acts are superimposing a risquÃ© German style onto the performance art and theater scene below 14th Street.
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Adam Bockâs new play provides a nifty hour and change of light comedy that bleeds into dark finger-wagging.
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Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese &#151; Yiddish, actually &#151; for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating &#151; "The New York City Museum of Complaint" &#151; that were written over centuries to the mayor of a city famed for denizens who whine in public.
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Words are powerless in the predetermined universe of "4:48 Psychosis," Sarah Kane's breathtakingly beautiful and ugly suicide note of a play.
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A silent cinema revival glories in black-and-white imagery and rich live music for postmodern tales. It makes an "unfilmable" Lovecraft classic a piece of cake. By John Brownlee.
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Mr. Allen's unrelentingly glum drama at the Atlantic Theater Company about defeated dreamers in 1950's Brooklyn is filled with gloomy clichÃ©s.
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Sex, death and religion, artâs old stand-bys, its holy trinity, are alive, weird and living, at  âKeith Edmier 1991-2007â at Hessel Museum in Bard College.