After Soviet Russia, gray visions of the Middle Ages and Hecate dancing a tango with Death.
Mr. Bertolt Brecht, He says that you can Take apart a man And make another man. How could you do that? How could that be? To take another man And turn him into me?…
The Russian language premiere of Tennessee Williams’ play about the suppression of truth. Samara, 550 miles southeast of Moscow, with a population of three million, was chosen by translator Vitaly Vulf because of its great leading…
Anita Dangler was delicious playing Renevskaya as a tottering confection, a hot house orchid from Paris wilting in the Russian countryside. In the photograph Renevskaya listens as her step-daughter, Varya, claims if she had a…
In Gertrude Stein’s version of the Faust legend, Faust invents the light bulb. This production began with the story of Faust as written and performed by two seven year-olds. A full-voiced sampling of arias from…
Guilty pleasures. Below: Dick Zigun’s Burlesque Manifesto at Webster Hall, March 2013. Below: America’s Favorite Burlesque Gameshow, This Or That! The Great Fredini, World Famous Bob center, Julie Atlas Muz with contestants
Based on the cult novel by Charles Finney, scenes in Chinese and English. A Chinese circus on tour in Abalone, Arizona, whose ringmaster, Dr. Lao, claims to have a mermaid, the Sphinx, a sea serpent…
A repertory of extraordinary monologues performed in English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, and gibberish. Patricia Norcia has performed the works of Ruth Draper since 1980. Directed by David Kaplan she has built a repertory of…