NEW YORK THEATER GOES MOBILE

Theater Ink by John Rowell

No, I’m not talking about being able to stream a Broadway show performance on your iphone (though that day may be coming) but a new way to purchase tickets for a show using a mobile app. It’s called TodayTix, and it’s an app crated by a team of theater producers and ticketing veterans, making it Broadway’s first mobile-only ticketing platform...

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“Open House” by Will Eno, directed by Oliver Butler

Expect the unexpected. That rule works on two levels in this odd and poignant new comedy.

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“Bikeman: A 9/11 Play”
by Thomas F. Flynn

Writer Thomas Flynn, at the time a reporter for CBS news, was close to the action on September 11, 2001.

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RECENT STAGE REVIEWS

“Dinner With Friends” by Donald Margulies

Marriage—and its dissolution—not only changes the relationship between the spouses involved, but also affects their friendships with the people closest to them.

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“My Mother Has 4 Noses” by Jonatha Brooke

The mother-daughter dynamic is a device often used to maximum drama, so it is refreshing to see a personal take on it that is heartfelt yet lighthearted.

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“Transport” by Thomas Keneally
music and lyrics by Larry Kirwan

In the mid-nineteenth century, several thousand poor women were transported by ship from Ireland to procreate with the men in the British penal colonies of Australia.

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MORE RECENT STAGE REVIEWS

“The Eyes of Orbach” created by No.11 Productions

Have you seen those creepy ads in the subway about donating your eyes when you die?

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“Branched: A Comedy of Consequences” by Erin Mallon

What would it be like if you could give birth one night and get back to your everyday life the next day, looking and feeling as good as new?

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“Outside Mullingar” by John Patrick Shanley

A promotional flyer for “Outside Mullingar” says: Love plays the long game.

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MORE THEATER ARTS NEWS

PEARL REVIVES EXISTENTIAL CLASSIC

Most theater people at some point have come into contact with Jean-Paul Sartre’s legendary French existential classic No Exit, but when was the last time you saw it onstage? It’s been over 15 years since the play was done Off-Broadway, but...

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PENDLETON SET FOR PROVOCATIVE PLAY
AT 59E59

Renaissance theater man—actor, teacher, director—Austin Pendleton takes the helm of playwright Johnna Adams’ hot-button new drama about bullying, Gidion’s Knot, set to begin February 20 at 59E59 Theaters.

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ATLANTIC CITY REVUE HITS UPPER WEST SIDE

It’s hard to imagine, but once upon a time, Atlantic City was not ruled by casinos alone. Nightclubbing was the pastime du jour, or du noir, and Atlantic City’s legendary Kentucky Avenue was hot with leggy showgirls, hysterical comedians and great singers and dancers.

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