If you want to experience the real power of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, listen to him recite it on Youtube.

Director Satoshi Miyagi contorts elements of bunraku and kabuki theater to present a passé feminist interpretation of Euripides’ Medea.

A favorite childhood fantasy and a familiar elementary school dilemma join neatly together in Uncle Pirate at Vital Theatre Company.

As an election year looms on the horizon, we are sure to hear plenty of perspectives on the hotly debated issue of illegal immigration. While the politicians trade statistics, theater artists are responding with powerful dispatches from inside America’s grey zone of citizenship.

It is imperative to go to this play without any expectations. It doesn’t make any sense, yet makes perfect sense. Felix & the Diligence berates and deceives its audiences, but entertains them in a very unique and interesting way.

Artist and performer Iyaba Ibo Mandingo is undeniably talented. Though he describes himself “as a painter and a poet,” in unFRAMED, Mandingo also demonstrates his abilities as a singer, dancer, performance artist, standup comedian and storyteller.

Richard Nelson’s Sweet and Sad is exquisitely subtle on all levels. The play takes place on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, yet it leaves the subject unmentioned for much of its hour-and-fifty minutes. Nelson’s play evokes in its audience not catharsis but unease, regret, and nostalgia that are, indeed, sweet and sad.

. . . Williams referred to Suddenly Last Summer as an allegory about “how people devour each other.” More than 50 years later, this morality play is still as poetic, consuming and unconventional as he hoped it would be.

In Hell’s Belles, an undoubtedly talented cast of four sings about the misdeeds of more than 20 female figures who have ended up in hell.

The infamous phrase “Don’t ask, don’t tell” didn’t exist in 1953 as we know it today, but the homophobic subtext contained within it certainly did, and that subtext is felt throughout the new jazz musical Play It Cool, which has just opened on Theater Row.