At La MaMa’s The Club, Carmen Lidia Vidu’s Migration Diary: New York City Edition delivers a profoundly raw, visually arresting exploration of the contemporary immigrant experience.  Developed in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute and the National Theatre of Bucharest, this documentary theater piece eschews fictional dialogue entirely, relying instead on theContinue Reading

Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista—staged as a centerpiece of Animus Theatre Company’s striking “Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts” marathon at the Circle in the Square Theatre—remains funny, deeply uncomfortable, and unsparing look at the anxieties of the modern male ego. Centering on Wheeler, a fiercely opinionated yet profoundly un-self-aware 50-year-old divorceeContinue Reading