"We're Here. Right Now: THE RESERVOIR's Hard-Won Grace" Jake Brasch's "The Reservoir," now playing at Atlantic Theater Company, operates through counterpoint: addiction and dementia, comedy …
Many plays are based on factual events that had a great impact on society during the time they took place and usually make the protagonist the person who was responsible for the course of ac…
Life can be compared to a fighting match, where once you step into the ring you are alone. You become a monster defending themselves and fighting for their life, suffering from cuts and brui…
"Parsing Joyce: ERS's ULYSSES Demonstrates Without Embodying" Good readers create images as they navigate dense text, constructing a personal vision of the world on the page. Elevator Repair…
Don't Look at Me: "The Other Place" and the Tragedy Critics Missed When Alexander Zeldin's "The Other Place" premiered at London's National Theatre in 2024, critics hailed it as "the outstan…
Calling all playwrights! We are excited to announce an open call for submissions for the 2026 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival . Showcase your new play in the heart of NYC Get support from…
Twenty-nine years after its London premiere, Tracy Letts' "Bug" has finally crawled onto Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and the question that matters most i…
The recent revival of "Chess "on Broadway comes nearly forty years after its first opening on London's West End in 1986, with a subsequent move to Broadway after major revisions, in 1988. Th…
Where do our memories go when we die? Jordan Harrison's "Marjorie Prime," now receiving its Broadway premiere at the Helen Hayes Theatre, asks this question with stunning simplicity and deva…
In late 2025, as wealth inequality reaches historic levels and millions struggle with housing costs, "The Queen of Versailles" arrives on Broadway at the St. James Theatre to ask: wouldn't i…
The recently opened new Broadway musical "Two Strangers Carry A Cake Across New York" leans towards the formula of a savvy rom com that is unassuming and charming, thanks to Christiani Pitts…
Most coming-of-age plays invite us to relate to individual characters as they navigate adolescent turmoil. We watch from outside, recognizing ourselves in their struggles. Else Went's "Initi…
Thornton Wilder wrote "The Skin of Our Teeth" in 1942 as the world burned. Ethan Lipton's musical adaptation "The Seat of Our Pants," now at the Public Theater, arrives as history repeats it…
In Samuel D. Hunter's "Little Bear Ridge Road," currently playing at the Booth Theatre, James, an astrophysics graduate student, explains to his boyfriend Ethan that the three stars forming …
After garnering mostly rave reviews in London's West End and Stratford-upon-Avon, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson is currently running Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi …
It is very rare that a revival of a musical is imagined better than the original production and exceptional that its message is more relevant now than when it first opened on Broadway nearly…
With HBO's "The Gilded Age" drawing record-breaking viewership, it's clear America remains fascinated by the elegance, extravagance and traditions of that dazzling era. Now, food writer and …
Jen Tullock's "Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God" has been hailed as a searing examination of how evangelical Christianity wounds its queer children. Critics have called it "the best…
A new solo show has opened at the Greenwich House Theater, written and performed by Ari'el Stachel, who won the Tony award for best supporting actor in the musical, "The Band's Visit." It is…
Jordan E. Cooper's "Oh Happy Day!" at The Public Theater promises to explore whether a queer man rejected and abused by the church can choose his own happiness on his own terms. It's a radic…
The latest production to open at Atlantic Theater Company is "Let's Love," a trio of one-acts penned by Ethan Coen. No surprise the subject matter addressed is love, what love is, how to exp…
The question asked in the title of the new play being presented by Bedlam Theater is "Are the Bennett Girls OK?" Well, the simple answer is, "Yes!" They are doing just fine in a new adaptati…
"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?" Vladimir asks this question in Act II of "Waiting for Godot," and it hangs in the air of the Hudson Theatre like an accusation. It is the questio…
Actor and comedian John Leguizamo makes his playwrighting debut at The Public Theater with "The Other Americans", which may certainly be billed as a new American Tragedy. Although it may dra…
"You always step in," Jacob Dunne (Will Harrison) tells us from the stage of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, explaining the code of the Meadows housing estate where loyalty means throwing fi…