An uneasy echo of present-day geopolitics reverberates throughout Cold War Choir Practice, Ro Reddick's new play with music. Taking place during the climactic nuclear standoff of the late Co…
Though it tries hard to shock and amuse, Let's Love! never earns its exclamation point. Ethan Coen's dramatic experiment attempts a triptych on the theme of love but delivers vulgar irritati…
MCC Theater's world premiere of Caroline, written by Preston Max Allen and directed with measured intensity by David Cromer, may at first seem deceptively simple, but it gradually reveals a …
Following her sharp staging of Kimberly Bellflower's John Proctor Is the Villain, Tony-winning director Danya Taymor dives into the relentless crucible of elite prep-school culture with Emma…
Broadway audiences might not immediately sense it from this vibrant new musical, but this year marks the 35th anniversary of Real Women Have Curves. Each iteration of Josefina López's gro…
How do we define identity when science offers to rewrite the foundations of who we are? D.A. Mindell's On the Evolutionary Function of Shame explores this existential question by blending bi…
Shit. Meet. Fan., the latest production at MCC's Newman Mills Theater, presents a promising premise: a satirical dramatization of white privilege, toxic masculinity, and social façades. A…
When you enter the Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, the ushers seem a bit like hosts seating you inside a vibrant, trendy restaurant. Some audience members take pla…
Job is just a two-hander, but it feels populated by a crowd of characters who haunt the mind of the play's desperate protagonist. This makes for 80 minutes of intense, gripping action as a h…
A girl-meets-girl love story takes center stage at the Newman Mills Theater, ready to amp up your summer pride with a vibrant celebration of lesbian love. Presented in the style of a rock co…
Yet another musical has arrived on Broadway that's ready to transport audiences "Back in Time." The Heart of Rock and Roll is still beating after its recent run at San Diego's Old Globe. Now…
Creator-director Daisy Prince and composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown have been collaborating on The Connector for more than a decade"well before "alternative facts" and "fake news" crept i…
Written by Sean Daniels, a self-proclaimed recovering Mormon and alcoholic, The White Chip serves up a compelling autobiographical chronicle of one man's battle against addiction with a refr…
You may be scrambling to book your ticket for what sounds like a hot revival at The Pershing Square Signature Center. After all, it is packed with star power: Emily Mann directs Tennessee Wi…
There is no mention of the title word anywhere in the play currently running at Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), but playwright Brittany K. Allen called it Redwood "after the oldest, most resi…
In scripted prefatory remarks for Mary Gets Hers, playwright Emma Horwitz teases, "The girls are buzzing at the abbey at Bad Gandersheim because tonight, they're putting on a play!" This liv…
If The Gospel According to Heather were billed as theatre for young adults, tween crowds might find it appealing, but it is likely to land as trite and trivial with adult audiences. As TYA, …
On the narrow porch of the same D.C.-area house where they once took their prom photos, a self-proclaimed Multi-Ethnic Reject Group (MERG(E)..."it's a soft G") reconvenes to "pre-game" for t…
Red Bull Theater, in association with Fiasco Theater, is presenting a playful, relevant production of Francis Beaumont's riotously comic, fourth-wall-shattering metaplay The Knight of the Bu…