Two siblings, one bedroom, and a private world of games, obsession, and jealousy. Crawl Space brings Jean Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles startlingly close to its audience in an intimate new adaptation.

Gorgeously written and almost unnervingly immersive, John of John drops you onto a remote Scottish island where family, religion, and the place that raised you are nearly impossible to escape. I admired the novel more than I loved its plot, but its people and landscape stayed with me.

Hot platforms, screeching trains, and a 1974 New York classic: a love letter to the NYC subway, inspired by Film Forum’s NYC In Transit series and the New York Transit Museum’s 50th anniversary.

Literary translator, medical student, and now novelist Lizzie Buehler stopped by Books Are Magic to talk about The Obsessed, her anxious, funny debut about academia, relationships, and the strange places our obsessions can take us.

Chekhov gets a modern psychological makeover in The Real Ivanov. But when a character explains everything he’s feeling, is there anything left for the audience to discover?

Four women try to hex the moon into cheese, the moon quits anyway, and somehow it all becomes one of the most compelling novels about female friendship I've read this year. Mollyhall Seeley's We Hexed the Moon is weird, funny, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender.

ISLA proves you don’t need a massive budget or flashy tech to make theatrical magic. With puppetry, shadows, live music, and a deeply personal story of family and Cuba, this is the kind of show that reminds you why you love theater in the first place.

A sharp political satire set inside a snowed-in Williamsburg apartment, Chapter Meeting delivers big laughs and strong performances, even if its ambitious script could use a tighter edit.