‘Office Hours’: The Bats take on A.R. Gurney
One of the largely unsung pleasures of downtown theatergoing in Manhattan is watching the work of the resident troupe — The Bats — at Jim Simpson’s The Flea Theatre on White St. Artistic director...
View Article‘Future Anxiety’: The Bats dig into dystopia
There are a few rough edges in “Future Anxiety,” the new Laurel Haines play at The Flea theater in lower Manhattan, but that is to be expected in a piece set in the future that juggles satire, drama...
View Article‘She Kills Monsters’: ‘geek theater’ explores D & D
The artistic director and signature writer of the Vampire Cowboys troupe have gone off the reservation to The Flea Theater for their latest collaboration, “She Kills Monsters.” Robert Ross Parker and...
View ArticleRaunchy fun in a basement on White Street
The Flea Theater in lower Manhattan is in the middle of a new play festival that gives audiences a chance to hear fresh voices in the theatre as interpreted by the fantastic resident acting company,...
View Article‘Looking at Christmas’ gets second life via Channel 13
You would have to be a major league Grinch not to be charmed by the holiday show produced by The Flea Theater, “Looking at Christmas,” which is being telecast by Channel 13 tonight at 10 p.m. Directed...
View Article‘Job’ returns: better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven?
Comedy doesn’t get much blacker than “Job,” the play by Thomas Bradshaw that re-tells the biblical story of God’s harsh test of one devout man. The play was a big hit at The Flea Theater last fall and...
View Article‘The Vandal’: good play, great showcase for Deirdre O’Connell
Two strangers meet at a bus stop on a very cold winter’s night in Kingston, New York, and slowly start to open up to each other, in the funny and creepy play “The Vandal” that just opened at The Flea...
View Article‘My Mother’: storytelling magic in a Tribeca basement
Two terrific actresses — Katherine Folk-Sullivan and Layla Khoshnoudi — spin a mesmerizing tale of boredom and bloodshed on the plains of Middle America in “My Mother Keeps Our Hammer” by Brian...
View ArticleFinding good New York theater on the cheap
Whenever I hear people complaining about the high cost of theater in New York City I know that they aren’t very adventurous folk. Yes, a good seat this weekend for “The Book of Mormon” or “It’s Only a...
View Article‘I See You’: terrific extra-marital romantic comedy
The romantic comedy genre is more or less dead in movies — the victim of shifting demographics favoring teen boys and undemanding Chinese audiences — but I saw a good example of the form at The Flea...
View Article‘Class Acts’: last call on White Street
The Flea Theater is leaving its Tribeca home of two decades with a celebration of one of its house playwrights, A.R. Gurney. “Two Class Acts” consists of a pair of one-act plays — set on college...
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