Who says Silicon Valley techies don't have a conscience? Matthew Libby's unbelievably timely drama Data centers on computer scientists at a firm called Athena trying to develop a top-secret …
You can see why rising Hollywood stars Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Owen Teague (IT) were drawn to Joe White two-handed drama Blackout Songs, making its New York debut at the MCC Theat…
Elevator Repair Service " the troupe best known for its eight-hour, word-for-word staged reading of The Great Gatsby " has decided to tackle another 20th-century literary classic: James Joyc…
Live theater traipses into the uncanny valley of high-tech performance capture with An Ark, a fascinating new production that outfits audience members with mixed-reality headsets that allow …
Erica Schmidt has packed her new play The Disappear with many promising elements, including some sharp insights into a middle-aged narcissist who's earned a dubious reputation as a creative …
Tracy Letts's Bug, making its Broadway debut three decades after its first performance, is a psychological thriller that has a timely prescience in David Cromer's riveting production. Carrie…
It was a remarkable year for theater in New York, even if some of my favorites didn't linger for very long. In whittling down my list, I decided to exclude some shows that transferred to Bro…
Australian author Joan Lindsay has credited a dream as the inspiration for her beloved 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock " a story centered around the disappearance of a teacher and three st…
Molière's 1664 satire Tartuffe is having a moment in New York this fall. First, André de Shields led a campy revival in the Gilded Age library at House of the Redeemer. Now Matthew Broderi…
The world has changed a lot since I first saw Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons a decade ago. The premise had once seemed like science fiction: A family…
Anna Christie has become a kind of oddball stepchild in the Eugene O'Neill canon, seldom seen in New York City since the memorable 1993 Broadway revival with Natasha Richardson and Liam Nees…
God bless us every one. Ebenezer Scrooge is back in town, in a highly modified adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol that first played on Broadway in 2019 (and scooped …
Directors have always had a reputation for their god complex, but Asa Leon " the manipulative theater-maker at the center of Nazareth Hassan's dark satire Practice " takes matters to a whole…
It's apt that Else Went's epic theater piece Initiative is opening at the Public Theater just as Netflix prepares to roll out the final season of Stranger Things. Both projects are bingewort…
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun make an engaging odd couple as emotionally (and physically) damaged young people in a decades-long situationship in Gruesome Playground Injuries, which opened S…
Every now and then, an enchanting new musical classic comes along out of nowhere. Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York, which opened Thursday at Broadway's Longacre Theatre, is a moder…
Chess, which began its life as an early 1980s concept album, has always been an unwieldy stage project " a blend of some of ABBA's best music with an overly convoluted story (by frequent And…
Over a career that has spanned nearly half a century, Tom Hanks has established himself as a successor to James Stewart, an avatar of aw-shucks regular-guyness that is distinctly American in…
Kim Kardashian may be the most famous Armenian American to ever live " and a character very much modeled on the ubiquitous reality TV star and entrepreneur makes a noteworthy cameo toward th…
William Morris Barfée and his "magic feet" are back, and that spells a whole lot of fun for fans of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which arrives at Off Broadway's New World Sta…
There's more than a bit of sleight of hand behind the awkwardly titled new show Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets. Lake, an America's Got Talent finalist, has made the appearanc…
The most contemporary, trenchant new play on Broadway is Robert Ickes' searing new adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus, which opened Thursday in a mesmerizing production that stands as one of t…
It takes a truly oddball sensibility to try to make a musical out of Thornton Wilder's Finnegan's Wake-inspired three-act dramedy The Skin of Our Teeth. Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard B…
Rajiv Joseph's Archduke, a comedic retelling of the recruitment of the anarchist whose 1913 assassination of Austro-Hungarian ruler Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I, is like a contempor…
After nearly half a century, Stephen Schwartz's 1976 musical The Baker's Wife can finally claim a proud place in the American musical pantheon. Best known for the cabaret-standard ballad "Me…