All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year.…
3 Comic-Book-Inspired Dramatists Name Their Favorite Comics and Plays
Just in time for the opening night of the Comic Book Theater Festival tonight at The Brick in Williamsburg, we asked three writers to tell…
Forget Thor and Pick Over Some Highbrow Comics This Weekend
While theater-goers watch a comic book-based movie about a Norse god who smashes things with a hammer this weekend, a different kind of comic book…
‘Bowery Boys’ Reimagines the Really Bad, Really Old Days of the Lower East Side
Crooked political machines, race-tinged violence, rampant disease, and a gross disparity of wealth: just another day in Five Points in 1853. “Bowery Boys,” a new…