Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, creative talent of the award-winning SPRING AWAKENING, are at it together again, this time in the brand new, splendid Robert W. Wilson Theatre Space at the new MCC Theatre on 52nd Street just west of 10th Avenue, with a version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland that might as well be called "Sexual Deadening”. Alice goes down the rabbit hole from a WWII bomb shelter in the London Underground during the Blitz with her heart set on her dear f

THE CAKE is like a centrist candidate for President: It accommodates everybody’s point of view so nobody gets offended. Tidily composed by Bekah Brunstetter and straightforwardly directed by Lynne Meadow, THE CAKE’s premise is ripped from today’s headlines. North Carolina born-and-bred, middle-age baker Della, who believes in the Lord, gets all conflicted about baking a wedding cake for her deceased best friend’s daughter Jen, visiting from hipster Brooklyn, when she disco

Thursday matinees, almost uniquely scheduled in Manhattan by The York Theatre Company, are always interesting at York but yesterday's program of a musical reading performance of LOLITA, MY LOVE, based on Vladimir Nabokov’s sensational 1955 novel, and talkback that followed was especially entertaining. York presented the 1971 failed musical, with book and lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner (of Lerner & Lowe MY FAIR LADY renown) and music by film composer John Barry (11 James Bond m