107 stories by "Naveen Kumar"
Two ambitious scientists are concerned with honey bees in this heady and data-heavy new play, a production of the National Asian American Theater Company.
The intergenerational comedy is a poignant reflection on sexuality, mortality and Black masculinity by the playwright Mansa Ra.
For affluent and educated 30-something New Yorkers, a favored set of the playwright Matthew López, a chain-hotel reception is as tacky as it gets.
Teenagers bond after school in a sort of classroom purgatory. And, where is the teacher?
Set around protests in Istanbul that began in 2013, this play follows a couple as they circle, approach and retreat from each other over the years.
Lust for power can defy logic. Why does anyone succumb to greed or ambition? Where Shakespeare probes primal urges through poetry and dirty deeds, director Sam Gold seems to question the ver…
Billy Crystal is roving the stage, leading an "oy vey!" call-and-response. There is no exclamation more apt for "Mr. Saturday Night," the moth-eaten cardigan of a new musical now in residenc…
Playing the part of a marquee idol is daunting on its own. Playing one made famous by Barbra Streisand may seem like a fool's errand, doubtless one reason "Funny Girl" hasn't been on Broadwa…
It's been 25 years since Paula Vogel's landmark drama about sexual assault and its reverberations first debuted Off-Broadway. Since then, private transgressions, like those that Li'l Bit exp…
It may be that "American Buffalo" belongs in the junk shop where it's set " a token of bicentennial Americana with questionable lasting value. Like the novelty coin at its center, David Mame…
There are some things in life you can count on. Birthdays will tick by like clockwork, a good cake recipe won't fail and the young will chase their future while elders reminisce. But combini…
A star athlete comes out as gay, and the narrator asks, "Why now?" Greeting that question with a shrug, the revival of "Take Me Out" from Second Stage is a down-the-middle throwback that nei…
People have long ponied up for the promise of elegance, familiarity and a bit of gracious pandering, on Broadway as on Central Park South. Throw in the allure of celebrity, and a revival of …
Claudia Rankine's heady new play dares white audiences to deny the realities of their social advantages.
In Sam Chanse's affecting play, a daughter tries to understand her mother, who resists any reminder of her escape from the Khmer Rouge.
The actor is directing an Encores! revival of the 1997 musical, updating it to confront hard truths about racism, poverty and carceral injustice.
Peter Gil-Sheridan's comedy for Keen Company raises a range of topical issues but fails to cover new ground.
Hansol Jung's new play looks at the broken adoption of a little boy who is plucked from South Korea and moved to one American home, then shunted to another.
In her one-woman Off Broadway show, the "Sex and the City" author invites audiences behind the scenes of her life with a wink and a cocktail.
The radio and television journalist Faith Salie stars in a one-woman show about the perils of striving for achievement and affirmation.
Erika Dickerson-Despenza's play follows one family of women affected by the water crisis in Flint, Mich.
This show brings together two convention-inverting artists: the cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond and the opera singer Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Namir Smallwood and Jon Michael Hill talk about returning to the roles of two men trapped by existential dread and what it means to land on Broadway.
There are sonic pleasures aplenty for fans of pop's new wave in Sing Street, a stage adaptation of John Carney's 2016 film
How Adrienne Warren learned to stop fighting herself and interpret the musical role of a lifetime.
