By Brian Scott Lipton Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World has clearly amassed quite a following since its 1995 Off-Broadway premiere, or so it seemed given the hooting, hollering and visceral anticipation that preceded many of its numbers at Thursday night’s Encores! Off...

  by Michael Bracken   It’s named Cardinal after the bird, not a Pope wannabe. Or maybe it’s both. It’s the color that’s important, and human cardinals have been known to don vestments as bright and red as what comes to the bird naturally. Red reigns in Cardinal, Greg Pierce’s tepid...

    By Sandi Durell     Michelle Wilson plays the pivotal role of Cynthia in the multi-award nominated Broadway show Sweat written by 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Lynn Nottage. It’s an intense, and timely, ensemble play about working class families and friends, each under...

        by Michael Bracken   Talk about the disaffected working class. Just watch the locals have a drink at Stan’s (James Colby) bar in Reading, Pennsylvania. That’s where factory workers male and female, black and white, like to congregate after work, and that’s...

      By Sandi Durell     Lynn Nottage’s new heart rending drama revitalizes the plight of factory workers as rumors spread of the local steel factory’s possible closing, leaving friendships and families torn apart, exposing inherent racial bias and the violence that...

  by Michael Bracken   Red alert! There’s an energy drain at Playwrights Horizons, where Julia Cho’s Aubergine is currently in residence, and no one seems to know how to stop it. True, the play deals with dying, so a certain amount of lethargy is to be expected. But even death can...