The play is treated like a rehearsal (a conceit also used by Bedlam in their incomprehensible and lame "Henry IV" workshop in Brooklyn in 2023) with the director (Andrew Rothenberg who also …
Itamar Moses' 'The Ally" is a play of ideas not only torn from today's headlines but tomorrow's as well. Ostensibly dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian question on college campuses today, i…
John Patrick Shanley has become our poet of lonely, desperate working class people trying to make a connection despite their inadequacies and hang-ups in such plays as "Danny and the Deep Bl…
Playwright Joyce Griffen's idea of farce in her new play "The Script in the Closet" is a series of 48, mostly very short scenes in which to keep the plot going she continually introduces new…
While "The Seven Year Disappear" may challenge and confuse many theatergoers, people used to performance art may get the in-jokes. Jordan Seavey whose play "Homos, or Everyone in America" wa…
While we could use a good murder mystery stage play, "Deadly Stages" is too derivative to suit the bill. The cast work hard mostly playing multiple roles, but the play seems to have attempte…
When she arrives dressed in a white pant suit, Labeija steals the stage with Hillary's number "Miss Me Now" which trumps them all with a series of Broadway parodies paying tribute to Clinton…
At the performance under review, part of the audience found the show hilariously funny, while others proverbially sat on their hands. The show makes use of history, parody, satire, burlesque…
Inspired by 20th century film and video games based on the classic Chinese novel of the 15th century, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Damon Chua's delightful and engrossing "Warrior Sisters…
Unfortunately, at 70 minutes the play seems skimpy. Structured in a great many short scenes, only one thing happens in each, so that there is a sameness to it all. Basically a two character …
Like its unwieldy title, Corinne Jaber's "Munich Medea: Happy Family" takes its time getting where it is going but is ultimately powerful and revealing in its almost unspeakable tale. It dea…
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy" is seemingly torn from the headlines - if this were the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election which pitted Hillary Clinton a…
Although written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, "The Following Evening" is a tribute and a summing up of the 50 year career and marriage of experim…
The play is best at its mysteries which are only slowly revealed. However, audience members may be confused part of the time as to the sequence of events and the relationships. A great deal …
The title of Michael Aguirre's "The Greatest Hits Down Route 66," the story of the Franco family's road trip during the summer of 1999, refers to Carl Sandburg's 1927 "The American Songbag,'…
Tadeusz Slobodzianek's "Our Class" is epic in its storytelling and shocking in its specifics. At three hours, the play is never long or boring as every line of dialogue offers new details to…
While "Pride" has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen's novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse "Prejud…
Not only is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Appropriate" a classic American family drama with a new wrinkle, it is also a trenchant and scorching look at American racism which is just under the sur…
Aside from the title not being explained, the Jean Graham-Jones translation seems to end very abruptly. Nothing is settled at the end of its short running time and it certainly feels like mo…
Joy filled Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops' annual two-night Christmas concert entitled "The Best Christmas of All" led by genial host, music director and conductor Steven Reineke. This…
The latest Tennessee Williams revival is the first major New York staging of "The Night of the Iguana" since Roundabout Theatre's 1996 production. Emily Mann's version with a great many well…
While the exciting new stage musical Buena Vista Social Club shares the same name with the acclaimed 1999 documentary by Wim Wenders, playwright Marco Ramirez's book for the new show takes a…
Mary Kathryn Nagle's "Manahatta" now at The Public Theater, just blocks from where most of the story takes place, is a fascinating combination of American history and recent events. Nagle wh…
Until now it has been believed that the 1937 Joris Ivens-Ernest Hemingway documentary "The Spanish Earth" was paid for by a corporation called Contemporary Historians sponsored by some of th…
Playing women of a certain age, four women stars of stage and screen who became famous a while ago play friends of a certain age who meet for a birthday brunch in Sandra Tsing Loh's "Madwome…