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'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all i…
Billy Recce and Danny Salles' lyrics are the secret engine of "Vape!""clever, campy, and unexpectedly pointed. They skewers performative purity, influencer culture, and the desperate nostal…
At the center of it all stands Apple, whose performance is nothing short of revelatory. As Catherine, she is brittle yet unbowed; as Hannah, she radiates vitality and purpose. Her voice"both…
"Oh Happy Day!" demonstrates an advance of technique over Cooper's eight-scene sketch evening in "Ain't No Mo'." However, the new play is much too talky and seems to cover some of the same m…
A moving, funny meditation on mortality and friendship, Lia Romeo's "The Lucky Ones" opens not with sentimentality but with shock " and ends with a grace note of acceptance that feels wholly…
Mark Leiren-Young's timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around t…
To have emerged from a childhood like Zoë Kim's"with enough self-awareness, critical distance, and sheer emotional stamina to craft a piece of theater with even a hint of uplift"is in its…
While Broadway was once filled with plays like this a generation or two ago, "Art of Leaving" now seems very dated. It would have been more believable set back in an earlier decade. Matt Geh…
The fourth evening of one-act plays by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Ethan Coen is coyly called "Let's Love!," when by rights it should be called "Let's Have Sex!" In three…
In "Heaux Church," writer-performer Brandon Kyle Goodman does not so much deliver a sermon as they detonate one"turning the pious pulpit upside down and shaking loose its centuries of shame,…
Sketches are performed, in this case approximations of the originals, which is understandable (the authors Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A. Sothers didn't have the rights to use the actual S…
Although William Spatz's "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the play…
Steven Reineke and The New York Pops opened their Carnegie Hall season with a luminous concert tracing the path of great songs from Broadway to Hollywood. Hugh Panaro and Elizabeth Stanley …
Under Carsen Joenk's clean, clever direction, Scotti's writing finds a delicate equilibrium " biting, funny, and deeply humane. The quartet of women are precisely dressed by designer Iliana …
Ari'el Stachel in his one-man show "Other" at Greenwich House Theatre (Photo credit: Ogata Photography) In his solo show Other, now unfolding with searing intensity at the intimate Greenwich…
Samuel Adams as Moritz Weissmann and Ella Stevens as Lexa Kluger in a scene from the Mint Theater Company's production of the American premiere of Sally Carson's "Crooked Cross" at Theatre R…
There's no denying that when 'The Pitch" stays in the office, it's alive"taut, funny, and honest. Alper clearly knows this world; he writes its jargon and swagger with precision. But each ti…
Paced by spirited performances by Max Ryon and Jake Ryan Flynn, Rider University's production of Jason Robert Brown's musical "13" is the best college show I've seen in years. And offers pr…
This play (with occasional music by Golden Globe-nominated songwriter and composer Leland) spends most of its first half setting up the two main characters, embellishing on their personaliti…
To describe "Oratorio" is to flirt with the inadequacy of language. It is a musical work"a sung-through piece in the formal lineage of the oratorio, that 17th-century form that eschews stagi…
As part of this year's Open House New York festival, the Episcopal Actors' Guild presented Celebration of Song " Freedom and Hope at the Church of the Transfiguration, affectionately known a…
For Levine, the crowd isn't a backdrop"it's a living collaborator. Her show is intimate, often exposing the kind of stories most people bury: intrusive thoughts, shame, and the messy interse…
The play is about a Jewish family, the Bergers, who live together in a small apartment in the Bronx. The Sea Dog production features color blind casting, so almost every Berger is a differen…
Comedian and actor John Leguizamo's "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to b…
The Limón Dance Company is celebrating the start of its 80th Anniversary season with a triple bill at The Joyce Theater which in words of artistic director Dante Puleio celebrates "where …
