Oratorio for Living Things Written by Heather Christian Directed by Lee Sunday Evans Signature Theatre October 4, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Heather Christian has written truly a divine experience in her Oratorio for Living Things. It truly feels like more of a call to worship than any piece of theatre than I have ever experienced. It is really impossible to define but I will do my best. It is a classical choral masterwork infused with pop, blues and gospel. A dozen stunning vocalists and six incredible instrumentalists make sense and aural spectacle out of Christian’s composition of this rich poetic text. Because the lyrics are dense and can be difficult to parse (some parts are in Latin, sometimes it builds into cacophony) they even hand out hymnals out at the entrance to the theatre to follow along with the language, but I quickly put it back down on my lap as I didn’t want any one of my senses to miss the experience.
(un) conditional Written by Ali Keller Directed by Ivey Lowe SoHo Playhouse October 3, 2025 Production website 💉 out of 5.
I, who have attended literally hundreds of productions in New York from basements to Broadway, have NEVER been more offended or made more uncomfortable (and NOT in a good way) to the totally unnecessary 90 minutes of (un)conditional. There was not one redeeming thing to be found here. Let me tell you just a bit about the plot of the show- – if for no reason than to just get it off my body. There are two couples.
The House of McQueen Written by Darrah Cloud Directed by Sam Helfrich The Mansion at Hudson Yards October 2, 2025 Production website 💉💉 out of 5
The House of McQueen is a new bio-play about Alexander McQueen radical bad boy of fashion. McQueen’s work was admired for its highly original blend of subversion and tradition, evident from the outset in his ‘Bumster’ trousers, sharp frock coats, corroded fabrics, slashed leather and shredded, flesh-revealing lace.
You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
The Weather Girl Written by Brian Watkins Directed by Tyne Rafaeli St. Ann’s Warhorse October 1, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Weather Girl is a brilliant, tight, 70-minute one woman show that centers on Stacey Gross, a weather girl on a Fresno, California TV station. She is a sunny, ever-positive, sparkling weather girl. She has been directed by her news produces to ignore completely the long-term toll of drought and wildfires plaguing the area. Her world and even neighbored is literally on fire. To cope, she is belting down Prosecco on air and step-by-step losing her mind.
