Mayank Keshaviah

For those more familiar with World of Warcraft than Waiting for Godot, Michael Golamco's newest play may appeal as it casts its LCD glow on a pair of video game developers and college buddies who have diverged as they've become successful. Will (Peter Katona), the "sellout," is nattily attired in......

"It's not easy to say what this play is about. It's not that kind of play," says writer-director Matt Chaffee in the program notes, and he's quite a...

History is most powerful when we see the "all" through the small — the panorama of the textbook through the peephole of the personal. Acclaimed pianist Mona Golabek give us just that in sharing the story of her mother, Lisa Jura, a budding piano virtuoso in late 1930s Vienna. At......

"The art of the illusion is the art of love," explains cave-dwelling magician Alcandre (Deborah Strang) after she unveils to Pridamant (Nick Ullett) visions of his long-lost son (Graham Hamilton). Love and illusion naturally take center stage in Tony Kushner's lyrical adaptation of Pierre Corneille's 17th-century comedy. What makes those......

J. Michael Feldman defines a whole new type of "triple threat" by writing, puppeteering and acting in Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over, this 90-minute barrel of monkey-filled laughs. But it's not just monkeys who populate this world; it's polar bears, squirrels, spiders, bees and other such mainstays of fairy-tale......

In Shakespeare's time, verse and music were commonly employed in plays, lighting and set pieces were largely absent, and the charisma of the players and skill of the director were paramount. The same attributes characterize this production of Lonnie Carter's play about a love-struck Filipino migrant worker named Magno Rubio,......

It's interesting that composer-lyricist William Finn called Act 1 of his show "March of the Falsettos" when it was first produced in 1981. At the time it was a stand-alone piece, before being combined with what's now Act 2, "Falsettoland," in 1992 to create this Tony Award-winning show. It's interesting......

Incongruity is both striking and informative. Three thousand people are killed by planes crashing into buildings, and a global "War on Terror" ensues, creating ...

Why is it that we keep going back to that hole-in-the-wall restaurant around the corner, despite its hackneyed decor, lack of ambience and slow service? It'...

Einstein once said, "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." But perhaps computer science and microbiology can be. At least accordin...