Ballet Review: The Guangzhou Ballet Show Dance Is A Universal Language

Dance is the bodies’ physicalization of the human spirit. Suddenly, love comes in a pirouette or depression lands in a plie. Journeying from China to the…

Theatre Review: Native Son Observes The Internalization of Systemic Racism

  The key to “Us Vs Them” is not solely the opposing of two sides against each other, but one side against itself. Think about…

Filomena Marturano: Un Matrimonio A La Caribeña Is An Absolute Hit!

Premiering at El Repertorio Español, and playing until August 24, this play is outlandishly funny and thrives off of its ability to plot twists in…

Film Review: Luce Shines A New Light On Racism In America

Luce is one of the best thrillers I have ever seen, in part, because its thrills are based on humanity. People move this world according…

Theatre Review: Tender Napalm Storms Through Love

Falling in love is in magnitude comparable to falling out of it. A relationship’s end can leave us reeling with the anxious half-poems we write…

Theatre Review: I Spy A Spy Tackles The Heart of Immigration

Synopsis: In a “melting pot” neighborhood in Hell’s Kitchen, José Rodriguez, an undocumented Mexican delivery guy, has an American Dream – to become “a someone.”…

Theatre Review: Leaving Eden Gets Biblical On Feminism

Synopsis: In the beginning God created man and woman; Adam and Lilith. Lilith has some questions, Adam has some rules, and in a modern metropolis,…

Theatre Review: The Way She Spoke Leaves Me In Absolute Tears

In the same way love is boundless, so is evil. Hence, when you fall into an oppressed category, like womanhood, these two battling forces threaten…

Theater Review: The Shed’s Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

Music by Sia! King Fu Fighting! Aerial Acrobatics! Playing at The Shed, Dragon Spiring Phoenix Rise has it all, but yet it felt like something…

Theater Review: #DateMe: An OkCupid Experiment Is Funny And Educational

I had no idea OF ANY statistics to online dating. I did not know that by 2024 70% of the population will find “their one”…

Theater Review: Smiley Wins Hearts At Repertorio Español

There are a few words in the above synopsis that stand out, “bound,” “destined,” “love,” “differences,” and  “strange.” While the illustrious Repertorio Español has ended…

Theatre Review: A Strange Loop Shows The Pain of Identity Politics

Watching A Strange Loop was an emotional experience because, in this world, it is not just that diverse representation is lacking in presence, it is…

Theater Review: Dying City Is An Intense Look At Trauma

We are our stories, and, for those that have suffered a trauma, such a tragic story can feel like the only one ever told about…

Theater Review: Square Go Wrestles With Adolescence

Do our bullies really care about us? I wonder that. I, like many, have experienced bullying, and was told, “It’s not personal” by others trying…

Theatre Review: Nomad Motel Hosts Abandoned Children

Although we all know the stories of kids abandoned by their parents or a parent, we still believe that a “parent-child” relationship is automatic. We…