• Monday, November 16, 2009 - 1:17pm By Lauren Wissot
    Once upon a time, there was an entity called community. It evolved out of the retro notion that people needed one another both to survive and thrive. It began with blood ties, since in the old days most of the support network around an individual...
  • Monday, November 2, 2009 - 1:48pm By Lauren Wissot
    My most delectable Halloween treat last week was attending The New Guignol, an evening of short, ripped from the perverse-but-true headlines plays presented by The Blood Brothers and Nosedive Productions at my new haunt, The Brick Theater in...
  • Monday, October 19, 2009 - 12:27pm By Lauren Wissot
    Titus Andronicus is the first show in the "Grudge Match: DMT Vs. Shakespeare" series ("in which nearly all of the Bard's great works will be ruthlessly mutilated, bent, battered, cut to ribbons and otherwise manhandled," so...
  • Monday, September 7, 2009 - 1:28pm By Lauren Wissot
    Summer in NYC is always the sexiest time of year, so to me it made hot and sweaty sense that following on the high heels of Shakespeare in the Park's Anne Hathaway Bard vehicle Twelfth Night, arrived The Bacchae, the Euripides tragedy directed by...
  • Friday, August 7, 2009 - 1:27pm By Chris Hall
    Jesus is Lord; he can never ever be a Lady. In a nutshell, that's the message of Christians who are outraged at Jesus, Queen of Heaven, a play that will be performed as part of Glasgay, a gay and lesbian arts festival in Glasgow, this year. The play...