Occasionally Nothing Review by Alexa Elmy The stakes are high in the play Occasionally Nothing, written by Natalie Menna and featured in Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Occurring in a post apocalyptic world, the play questions human nature in grim circumstances. The set is simple, but conveys lapses in time tastefully, as the scenes change and…

EMMA’S BLISS BY CLAUDIA SCHREIBERLYRICS BY YARINA GURTNER DIRECTED BY YARINA GURTNER AND CHRISTIAN SCHARRER MUSICAL DIRECTION BY YARINA GURTNER AND LUKAS THÖNI STARRING YARINA GURTNER. LIVE MUSIC BY BRANDON G. REILLY. WHEN FACING DEATH… WHAT BECOMES ESSENTIAL IN LIFE? PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: WED 8/02, 7:15PM; FRI 8/04, 6:00PM; SUN 8/06, 1:00PM MITF: SUMMER 2017 AT…

INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT, SUE BEVAN, BRINGS HER INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ONE-PERSON SHOW TO NEW YORK AFTER SUCCESSFUL RUNS IN BOSTON, CAPE TOWN, STOCKHOLM, PRAGUE, LONDON, EDINBURGH… AN AUDIENCE WITH SHURL MITF: SUMMER 2017 AT THE WORKSHOP, 312 W.36TH STREET, NYC WWW.MIDTOWNFESTIVAL.ORG Performance Schedule: Tues 7/25, 6:00pm; Fri 7/28, 7:pm; Sun 7/30, 2:45pm Y’know, I feel really small.…

“Ronna is the bomb. I had her from English 92 and she is a very helpful and kind person and she really cares about her students. I wish I could have her again. I recommend her to everyone.” Rate My Professors.com Ronna is more than the bomb… she’s a superhero. The instructor/actress will not shed…

Performance Review: Fifteen Minutes with Ellen by Andrew Selig  Written by: Danielle Boss Fifteen Minutes with Ellen is an emotionally charged spectacle written by Andrew Selig and directed by Michael Thomas Cain. Presented by Forgotten Artist Productions, Fifteen Minutes with Ellen makes its premiere at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The world of the play…

Review by Stephanie Schwartz P.O.W. is Irving A. Greenfield’s telling of the long-term effects of  a Vietnam war experience. Director Laurie Rae Waugh continues to have a deft hand guiding her actors through Greenfield’s complex script. Ken Coughlin plays Sidney Pollack with credibility and sincerity causing increasing sympathy for his character. While under attack in Vietnam, Pollack,…

Playwright Monica Bauer took the Wizard of Oz, the new tensions in America and the old tensions in the Middle East and put them all in the head of a school drama teacher. Then she added a whole bunch of international actors and voila! We grabbed this former professor from the American University in Cairo on…

Camilla Crawford has assembled an international company (a director from England, an actor and assistant director from South Africa, to name a few) for her play that dares to boycott Him! A Philosophical Protest starts when a woman’s faith is tested due to an emotion crisis… faith loses the test. Now, amid a public protest…

Jazmyn Arroyo and Janelle Zapata have taken a great step… Step1 Theatre Project. These two courageous women have built a powerful brand in just a short time. Step 1’s mission is endorse and encourage artistic freedom. Money doesn’t stop them from bringing bold, meaningful productions to interested audiences. Female-centric in terms of authors – ethnic…

A theatre season CANNOT go by without the prolific LAURIE RAE WAUGH delivering a dynamic piece of intimate stage art! She tackles delicate subjects with a hard edge: crime, depression, relationships, now even war. The secrets of a war from long ago are brought to light in P.O.W., a new play by Irving A. Greenfield,…

EXPERIMENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND ABSURDIST THEATERS MEET THIS SUMMER IN THE (LAST) STATION AT THE 2017 PLANET CONNECTION THEATRE FESTIVITY, RUNNING JUNE 12 – JULY 9 AT THE CLEMENTE, 107 SUFFOLK STREET, NYC. The (Last) Station is written in the avant-garde style of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, complete with the unlying yearning for a different reality. The distracted…

After achieving great acclaim with this one-woman show at Florida’s Sarasolo Festival in Sarasota, Jan Wallace reprises her role in Shirley and Me at this summer’s Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. SHIRLEY AND ME is about Jan Wallace‘s relationship with the character “Shirley Valentine” (a not so young working class Liverpool lady who just takes off on holiday to…

Silver screen siren Hedy Lamarr was proclaimed by Hollywood as the most beautiful woman in the world, but did you know she invented frequency hopping and spread spectrum technology? Her invention is used today in cell phones, WiFi, CDMA, GPS, Bluetooth, military satellites, and a myriad of other wireless systems! Her adventures from Austria to…

Interview with Jake Lipman, producing artistic director of Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (info@tictheater.com and www.tictheater.com) Buffalo Heights presented by Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions Deported from France, expatriate Fran, a lesbian, attempts to start a new life in the land of opportunity, Buffalo, NY. Her new career as a high school French teacher, gets…

Rising Sun Performance Company is pure power. Founder Akia Squitieri and her team provide New York with some of the most envelope-pushing and daring pieces of live theatre seen. Like this one: The Glory of Living tells the story of Lisa, a 15-year-old girl, and her marriage to Clint, an ex-con twice her age. Lisa…