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Destination Undefined
Destination Undefined, the ambitious and engrossing new world-premiere science fiction play from Cellunova enters the AI conversation with style, intellectual rigor, and a surprisingly tender heart. Read our review written by Tony Marinelli.
The Royal Pyrate
This rollicking world premiere of The Royal Pyrate—brimming with brine, ballast, and a bootlegger's spirit—is a spirited creation from the talents of composer-lyricist Jason Landon Marcus and book writer Chas Libretto, who have taken the rough-cut legend of “Black Sam” Bellamy and burnished it into something bright, brassy, and wonderfully briny.
The Day I Accidentally Went to War
In this blisteringly funny and profoundly affecting solo performance, comedian and storyteller Bill Posley invites us not merely to witness his life’s extraordinary detour into war, but to walk beside him, combat boots on the ground, through terrain where absurdity and anguish march hand in hand. The Day I Accidentally Went to War is a truth bomb.
Sulfur Bottom
The phrase eco-gothic drama immediately caught Malini’s (our reviewer) attention when she read the description of Sulfur Bottom. Read Malini’s review here!
Can I Be Frank?
To find oneself, not merely witnessing, but experiencing the rememberance of Frank Maya in Can I Be Frank? is to enter a realm where memory, performance, and raw neurosis collide in a dazzling, kaleidoscopic fugue. Here’s our review written by Tony Marinelli.
Kafka for Beginners
Julian Henry Lowenfeld’s Kafka for Beginners is no mere play, but a fevered cry from the belly of an empire rotten with its own myth-making. Here, power has calcified into ritual, and truth is a currency long outlawed.
Saloon Girls
The true interest of Saloon Girls by the writing team of August Kiss Fegley, Alison Newton and Katie Kunkel, lies not in story, but in tone, texture, and tableau. Read our review by Toni Marinelli here!
Transgression
Transgression, written by Terry Curtis Fox, is spectacular. Smart, funny, shocking, disturbing – intermission chatter was speculating about relationships and how much each character truly knew. Check out our review!
Sacco & Vanzetti Are Dead!
Joey DeFilippis and Matthew Ferrara not only wrote this sharp comedic allegory about the treatment of immigrants and the “othering” of minority Americans, but they also embody Sacco and Vanzetti with captivating energy. Check out our review of Sacco & Vanzetti Are Dead!
A LETTER TO LYNDON B. JOHNSON OR GOD: WHOEVER READS THIS FIRST
A Letter to Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First is a piece so brimming with theatrical mischief and nostalgic Americana that one feels less an audience member and more a willing time-traveler. Check out our review!
MANIFEST DESTINY
In Manifest Destiny, playwright Manuel Ortiz exhumes a phantom—one cloaked not in the garb of Shakespearean melancholy, but in the bloody regalia of imperial arrogance masquerading as righteous deliverance. Here’s our review by Tony Marinelli.
Prosperous fools
Prosperous Fools is a glorious mess: bloated, brilliant, self-indulgent, and searingly funny. It’s also vital. Here’s our review written by Tony Marinelli.
At the barricades
At the Barricades doesn’t ask you to sit back and watch. It asks you, like the characters: You’re here now—what are you going to do? Check out our review by Malini Singh McDonald.
Leni’s Last Lament
Leni Riefenstahl is holding a mirror up to us so we can see how easy it is to appear comfortable with the world in its current form? How will we be judged by the generations that follow? Will we be remembered for the art or for the artist? And which is more important? Leni's Last Lament leaves us with those questions to find answers to.
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND QUEERS
The past may be a distant country, but here it speaks directly to the fractured, ongoing present. As Blood, Sweat, and Queers unfolds, the life of Zdeněk Koubek resists the neat labels history—and theater—so often crave. Check out Tony Marinelli’s review!
axes, herbs & satchels: open the archives
The mission of the Anthropologists is to create “investigative theater that inspires action”, and with this interactive production, Axes, Herbs, & Satchels: Open the Archives, they do just that. Here’s our review by Alexandra de Suze.
Fat Cat Killers
The creative team of Fat Cat Killers has created a 90-minute piece that flies by in an instant. Here’s our review!
Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger
Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger is a one-hour satire musical that opens up the Under St. Marks Theatre to freedom. From the moment our reviewer, Amanda Montoni, sat in the back row, she felt a part of the Texas Annie cast. The show, one of the many included in the NYC Fringe Festival, includes audience participation, so be prepared.
Humpty Dumpty
Eric Bogosian and Ella Jane New's play, Humpty Dumpty, predates Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Perhaps the only thing Humpty Dumpty didn’t foresee is the price of eggs. Check out our review by Nicole Jesson.
Meet the Review Team
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A proud SAG-AFTRA & AEA member, Nicole has worked for The Huntington Theatre, Delvena Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company and Wellesley Summer Theatre as well as producing and directing with Catbox Cabaret and le black Kat theatre. A graduate of the Actor Studio Drama School and Emerson College, she is the author of the children's book Iggy the Snake. Her new short play The Other Woman debuts in Boston Autumn 2025.
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Tony Marinelli is an actor, playwright, director, arts administrator, and now critic. He received his B.A. and almost finished an MFA from Brooklyn College in the golden era when Benito Ortolani, Howard Becknell, Rebecca Cunningham, Gordon Rogoff, Marge Linney, Bill Prosser, Sam Leiter, Elinor Renfield, and Glenn Loney numbered amongst his esteemed professors. His plays I find myself here, Be That Guy (A Cat and Two Men), and …and then I meowed have been produced by Ryan Repertory Company, one of Brooklyn’s few resident theatre companies.
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Amanda Montoni is a professional hat-wearer. One of those hats is, yes, you guessed it, Writer. She has had her short stories, poetry, and children's books published by multiple companies. Her plays have premiered both on stage and in podcast form. Her poetry collection, Thoughts While Singing, was the creative spark for her podcast, The Sweet Madness Podcast, where she interviews fellow theater lovers, poets, and writers as well as any other guests that bring sweetness to the world. Theatre has always been her lifeline, so when she jumped from Actor/Choreogrpaher/Director to Reviewer, she could not have been more thrilled to see her worlds come together.
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Niranjani Reddi (she/they) is a playwright, actor, and producer based in NYC . Previous credits include: Shiv's Project (Priyanka), Seeking Fair and Lovely : Rishtas and Rasas at The Tank (Playwright and Producer), Alley Between the Houses (Zera), While We Wait (Grace), Whippoorwill Calls (Director). She’s extremely passionate about all things related to Indian and Indian-American representation within the Western performing arts space. She works to center these stories in her own work, whether it’s in plays she’s written, or projects she’s acted in. She’s incredibly excited to continue building a community of artists based in and around NYC, who are interested in engaging with the same kind of work she is.
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Marcina Zaccaria has written and edited profiles for Howl Round, based at Emerson College, and has held temporary positions at Conde Nast and Rodale Publishing. Marcina is the Theatre and Opera Editor at The Theatre Times, and her clips can be found online. She has covered theatrical productions for The Brooklyn Rail and TheaterPizzazz.com. She currently enjoys handling editing and layout for Bio Books for professionals at a NY based non-profit organization, and previously worked at EdLab at Columbia University, editing articles for Teachers College Record and the New Learning Times.
As a Dramatist, Marcina Zaccaria has written Village, My Home, performed at the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City. Marcina's One Act play, All About Image, was performed at the Broadway Bound Festival on Theatre Row. She has read applications and coordinated rehearsal space for the LIT Space Grant Residency Program and participated at the Catwalk Artist Residency where she wrote The Incalculable Present. A member of the League Of Professional Theatre Women, she was the Co-Chair of Julia's Reading Room where she enjoyed a virtual reading of her play, Love, the TV, and Me.
Marcina Zaccaria received her undergraduate degree from Tisch School of the Arts, and holds an MFA from Columbia University.
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Award-winning multidisciplinary theatre professional with a distinguished reputation for crafting groundbreaking performances. Renowned for her work on stage, innovative movement direction, and international experience, she is dedicated to creating transformative art that captivates audiences and fosters cultural enrichment.