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…
Last season, New York's Mint Theater Company hit pay dirt with Garside's Career, a lesser-known work by Harold Brighouse, whose 1915 classic play Hobson's Choice is frequently staged and ada…
"Hey. Not in a weird way or... Well, not weird like... I just mean not like... Not like that, but... I love you, okay?" Hopefully, things have improved since then, but when I was a high sch…
With a title like Chinese Republicans, you're bound to wonder what the heck you're in for. But Alex Lin's new play at the Roundabout's Laura Pels is, in fact, about Chinese Republicans, a ve…
There is a priceless comic scene in Lauren Yee's Mother Russia, which opened last night at New York's Signature Theatre. It's 1992, just one year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a…
In 1999, Marcel Marceau said in an interview, "Of course, I have had many imitators. And I am aware of the jokes about mime. But if you love your art, you just do it. Time will judge me." In…
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. For my fellow non-literary types, this is what playwright Kirk Lynn…
First of all: Jacob Perkins can really write for women. The women in The Dinosaurs, his new drama at Playwrights Horizons, argue, confront, and support one another with great believability a…
I've attended a lot of immersive theatre in my close to fifty years of playgoing, but none of it has come close to the participatory nature of Sour Milk's theatrical game Dirt, which casts a…
Early on in Elevator Repair Service's Ulysses, which opened tonight at the Public Theater in a co-production with the Under the Radar Festival, we are reminded by co-director and dramaturg S…
"I love writing music in the way of being a storyteller about my personal life. Just like my influences... ya know, the greats, the classics. Like Sabrina Carpenter," explains singer/songwri…
The first thing audiences will notice upon entering the Minetta Lane Theatre, where Erica Schmidt's The Disappear is running, is the rustic and exquisitely well-appointed living-room set. Sc…
Attention, baby boomers: Get out your miniskirts and bell bottoms! Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon, a musical retrospective of Burt Bacharach and (mostly) Hal David, summons up the mid…
Lewin's nautical epiphany has now resulted in a show called Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon. It opens tonight (following a handful of preview performances) at The Marjorie S. Deane Lit…
The "meaning" of Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist masterwork Waiting for Godot will be parsed forever and will never be fully discerned. Some theatregoers will be enthralled by the experience…
The press rep at Irish Repertory Theatre, always helpful and cheery, seemed even more effusive than usual, as if she were about to hand out tickets to a winner. She wasn't wrong. The Honey T…
Full disclosure: It's a Wonderful Life is probably my favorite movie. As a movie-addled teenager I wrote Frank Capra a fan letter about it, and he responded, in part: "In thanking me so sinc…
Many prize the state of Idaho as a go-to destination for outdoor recreational opportunities, white water rapids, hot springs, and majestic mountains. But playwright Samuel D. Hunter has a wa…
Reviews of tribute albums for Sondheim, Finke, the Gershwins, McHugh, Berlin.
Leaving/speaking. People/evil. Moment/torment. It's evident from the outset that with Tartuffe, his adaptation of Molière's 1664 classic, Lucas Hnath is attempting rhymed verse, as Richard …
"Today there won't be any singing or dancing, no green flying witches on brooms, no giant projection screens magnifying my every micro-expression," says Julie Ridge to open Bipolar & the Eng…
What does it mean to be human? And will our current and relatively unfettered deep dive into artificial intelligence help to clarify things, or will it further muddy the waters? These are th…
A recent survey from Wolters Kluwer, a leading provider of healthcare data, reported that drug diversion is "the elephant in the hospital room." Individuals who have watched the first season…
A noble institution, the American Dance Machine. Founded in 1978 by Lee Theodore, an ex-Broadway hoofer (West Side Story, Tenderloin, on and on) turned choreographer (Baker Street, Flora, th…
Here are five cast albums; the first three have the spectre of death hanging over them, but the last two are cheerier.