Currently running at the Hayes Theatre, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's "Purpose" joins the important pantheon of plays about families, dysfunctional families in particular. These plays, including …
The new musical "Smash," opening on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, creates more than one bombshell, strategically detonating a multitude of explosive twists, turns, and powerful productio…
Act One of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" currently running at the Palace Theatre takes place at a well-apportioned Chinese restaurant. Skillfully navigating Mamet's iconic wordy text w…
"The Last Five Years" featuring a book, music and lyrics, by Jason Robert Brown, has had a long journey since first opening in Chicago in 2001. It has had two off Broadway runs, two London r…
One of the latest offerings to open on Broadway comes in the form of a tribute musical revue, dedicated to the incredible work of the iconic composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. It is de…
The themes explored in Alice Childress's "Wine in the Wilderness" currently running at Classic Stage Company include classism and economic struggles; the resilience and strength of communiti…
Yet another new production enters the current Broadway season boasting a well-known film and television star, a large movie screen, and several television screens that surround the prosceniu…
There are skeletons in Helena Alving's (a tortured yet stalwart Lily Rabe) closet whose secrets she would rather not be revealed. More devastating to Helena than these skeletons is the bevy …
The creative team for the musical "Buena Vista Social Club" have been hard at work making a few changes in preparation for its Broadway debut after a successful run at the Atlantic Theater. …
A star-studded production has found its way to Broadway from Sydney Australia, with an adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. This transformation of the classic is writte…
In Simon Stephens's brilliant "Vanya," the adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya, Andrew Scott portrays the eight main characters from the 1897 play. He depicts these familiar character…
The latest import from London is a perfect example of the broad slapstick comedy that British audiences are fond of across the pond, and it joins the ranks of several similar shows that have…
Two half-brothers half a world apart face the decline of their mother in Samuel D. Hunter's "Grangeville" currently on at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theat…
The first preview of the norm-disrupting production of "Julius Caesar" kicked off a promising start to this year's Oregon Shakespeare Festival, now in its 90th season. During the preshow ann…
The new play by Matthew Lombardo titled "Conversations with Mother" now playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 555, is a lighthearted and comical evening of entertainment, mostly due to the extreme…
There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl's "Liberation" currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Thea…
Sam Shephard's iconic 1977 "Curse of the Starving Class" is enjoying its second revival production at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The 2019 Terry Kinney revival (also at Pershing Sq…
The new musical "Redwood," which recently opened at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, certainly lives up to the title, featuring the magnificent giant redwood tree that seamlessly moves o…
The full title of "The Antiquities" currently running at Playwrights Horizons is "A Tour of the Permanent Collection in the Museum of the Late Human Antiquities." The title contains two impo…
The widely anticipated revival of "Gypsy "on Broadway has finally arrived, along with the reopening of the Majestic Theatre after a healthy renovation, requiring the theatre to be closed for…
It is important to pay attention to the title of a play, especially in the case of Leslye Headland's well-crafted "Cult of Love" currently running at the Helen Hayes. The Dahl nuclear family…
What could go wrong at a private school whose five-member board of directors makes all decisions based on consensus and has what benefitted the community at heart as their guiding principle.…
Abby (Marisa Tomei) has co-produced records with Gus (Arliss Howard) for thirty-two years. She had been his right hand, but her name never appears on the album as co-producer. She finds tale…
Families of any number, age, or culture often meet for special occasions, some more special than others. Depending on the mix of those above descriptors, these get-togethers result in quite …
The charming new musical, "Maybe Happy Ending," now playing at the Belasco Theatre, with music composed by Will Aronson and the book and lyrics penned by Mr. Aronson and Hue Park, will certa…