The Gideon and Hubcap Show for Kids, Adults and Everyone Else A Living Room Near You Snapshot Review: Undiluted Joy Jacquelyn Claire, Reviewer I took my inner child to see Gideon and Hubcap’s soul tickling show. These two wonder wielders perform together in homes across the US and the world. This year they turned their attention to divining a children’s show and expertly broke the genre mold in the process. It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day but I knew that was going to change because I was off to see these two marvelous music-making fun stokers. You get

Gender Bender Film Premiere Snapshot Review: Cutting Comedic, Sexual Tension D.B. Frick, Reviewer There is currently a great deal of tension among the sexes in these days. The #Metoo movement is an important effort and should not be taken lightly. Though male-female tensions have always existed, the efforts these days to change what is expected of both men, women and the 39 other genders now accepted by Facebook and Tinder isn’t easy. We live in a time of change. Though sexism is still alive and thriving. Movies like Genderbender have the opportunity to bring the sexes together for laughs, even though it only

The Fountainhead Brooklyn Academy of Music Snapshot Review: Could not be Timelier Patricia Contino, Reviewer There is no in-between with Ayn Rand. Her brutal individualism is the closest thing to political theory that the current White House and their followers embrace. The long-term effects of such thinking are frightening, as is the acceptance of reading Rand as a literary rite of passage. In this time of “alternative facts” Rand would have relished, there is one way of dealing with her legacy, Ivo van Hove’s visceral, slow-burning stage adaptation of ‘The Fountainhead’ now at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. Following his own aesthetic, van Hove

Le Nozze di Figaro Metropolitan Opera Snapshot Review: Frustrating Patricia Contino, Reviewer Like their Lincoln Center neighbors, The Metropolitan Opera took full advantage of the holiday season with lighter programming. Along with Hansel, Gretel, a Merry Widow and the puppet-populated cast of “The Magic Flute” was the household of “Le Nozze di Figaro” (“The Marriage of Figaro”) performed before a sold-out audience on December 29. Mozart’s celebration of love needs no holiday to revel in Ildar Abdrazakov’s Figaro, Nadine Sierra as his bride Susanna, or Isabel Leonard as love-struck teen Cherubino, but deserves a better production. Sir Richard Eyre’s displaces the opera from the

Even Olympians Have Asthma United Solo Festival Snapshot Review: Instantaneously Likeable Jacquelyn Claire, Reviewer Rosemary Cipriano is a gifted storyteller. In “Even Olympians Have Asthma” she presents a stand up comedy set that is so fresh and engaging you feel like you’ve had a positivity exfoliation. It is no surprise that she was the winner of the 2017 United Solo “Best Stand Up” award. Cipriano is instantaneously likeable. You feel like you are hanging out with your new best friend as she shares stories of boys, bars and boozy bad behavior with you. Her material is millennial magnificent. She puts you right at the

Daughters of the Mock Theatre 80 St. Marks Snapshot Review: Must See Patricia Contino, Reviewer Amanita (Kristin Dodson) announces she\'s engaged. Her fiance never appears, which might be a good thing: Grandmother Maumau (Edythe Jason) is unresponsive; though she always is. Mom Oralia (Brenda Crawley) and older sister Maneda (Claudia McCoy) are equally unenthusiastic. The reason for their displeasure isn\'t Amanita\'s youth: marriage means initiation into the family\'s vodou heritage in Judi Ann Mason\'s "Daughters of the Mock." The powerful drama directed with great care by Denise Yvonne Dowse and performed by a perfect cast was presented in May and June as part of

“What I love about this is that it takes a lot of ordinary people and gives them an extraordinary experience,” expresses Phil Barfoot, described in the program notes as “an internationally known composer, author, and music ministry professional who has written and created more than 40 major choral collections and musicals that collectively include more than 300 songs.” A little over an hour before the Seventh Annual Christmas in New York, Barfoot and his wife Sheri gathered in their dressing room at Carnegie Hall to disclose details of the evening’s premiere: “The Worship of Christmas”. Every year, Celebration Concert Tours

Cardinal Second Stage Snapshot Review: Never Makes Any Real Impression Jena Tesse Fox, Reviewer Cardinal, which opened last week at Second Stage, never seems quite sure of what it is supposed to be: If it’s a black comedy, there aren’t a lot of laughs. If it’s a drama, it’s not a particularly emotional one. The story could be compelling, and it raises some interesting issues, but Greg Pierce’s script is so thin that it never makes any real impression. The story, such as it is, follows a young woman’s return to her upstate New York hometown, where she pitches an idea to the mayor

Bright Colors and Bold Patterns Soho Playhouse Snapshot Review: Never Laughed So Hard Jane Dentinger, Reviewer Be you straight, gay or somewhere in between, you know someone like Gerry, the one man motor who drives Bright Colors and Bold Patterns. He’s the guy who shows up at the party over-wound, over-medicated and over the top. The guy who will suck every cubic inch of air out of the room, even as he asks you how you’re doing. The guy you’d happily strangle except for the fact that he’s too damn funny to kill. Drew Droege, who wrote and stars in this one-man show directed