Situational ethics and moral ambiguity take center stage in “KENREX,” the true crime thriller currently running at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. On July 10, 1981, in Skidmore, Missouri (po…
Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins joins the cast of La Cage Aux Folles (running June 17 – 28, 2026) as Jacqueline, along with Peter Francis James as Edouard, and Rachel Webb as Anne. They jo…
The prologue to “The Lost Boys,” the new musical adaptation of the 1987 Warner Bros. film now at the Palace Theatre, immediately signals Michael Arden’s dark ambitions for this materia…
“The Rocky Horror Show” featuring a book, music and lyrics by Richard O’Brien, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1973 and had its American debut in Los Angeles in 1974 where it r…
Joe Turner was real. Brother of the Tennessee Governor, he would swoop down on Black men in the early 1900s – gambling, preaching, just walking down the road – and keep them enslaved on …
You don’t need an extensive knowledge about Golden Age Broadway musicals to thoroughly enjoy “Schmigadoon” which recently opened on Broadway, but it can enhance your enjoyment. Those w…
Balusters are the decorative posts that support a porch railing – without them, the whole structure collapses. In David Lindsay-Abaire’s wickedly sharp “The Balusters,” now at Manhat…
The play "Fallen Angels" written by Noel Coward, originally premiered on Broadway nearly one hundred years ago in December of 1927. The second Broadway revival that is currently on stage at …
"Time can be a blisteringly fast thing, where in the blink of an eye " ten years are gone from your life, but the next week is agony." Nick Yarris (Adrien Brody) opens Lindsey Ferrentino's "…
The musical "Titanique," a parody of the well-known movie "Titanic," has managed to dock at the Broadway stage of the St. James Theatre after it set sail from Los Angeles in 2017. It made a …
When we saw "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" at PAC NYC last summer, the production didn't work. The audience overpowered the performers " whooping, hollering, stomping on wooden risers until the v…
Some may say that Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" may be the greatest play of the 20th century and there is evidence that supports that claim. It premiered on Broadway in 1949,…
For six scenes, "Becky Shaw" unfolds in shadows " David Zinn's dark grays, Stacey Derosier's moody shafts of light illuminating secrets and lies. Then, in scene seven, everything floods with…
"Giant," the new play penned by Mark Rosenblatt that opened on Broadway refers to the well-known author of children's books Roald Dahl. The word 'Giant' may pertain to Dahl standing six foot…
Eleven shows. Eleven days. Welcome to April's theatrical marathon. What follows are compressed reviews " 300 words each, five shows per roundup " covering everything we've seen for Outer Cri…
The latest offering at the Vineyard Theatre is "Bughouse," conceived and directed by Martha Clarke, with a script adapted from the writings of Henry Darger, by Beth Henley. For those who are…
At the center of Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga's "Public Charge," now at the Public Theater, are two marginalized women who understood something the State Department establishment d…
The most devastating moment in Ro Reddick's "Cold War Choir Practice" is not a Soviet missile strike. It is an American bomb, planted by an American cult, detonating on South Salina Street i…
In her program notes for "You Got Older," playwright Clare Barron shares her "optimistic belief that there is profound comfort in just living privately together. Life and desire can persist …
Anna Ziegler's "Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)," currently at the Public Theater's Barbaralee Theater, is not the Sophocles tragedy I taught in high school"but then again, neithe…
It has taken a very long time, actually 27 years, but Richard Maltby and David Shire have decided that it was "About Time," their new musical revue, that completes the trilogy which began wi…
Abigail and Shaun Bengson welcome the audience to New York Theatre Workshop for "My Joy is Heavy." They introduce themselves, the band, the crew. They explain this is a relaxed house perform…
"Did You Write This Scene or Did I?" THE UNKNOWN at Studio Seaview When critics dismissed David Cale's "The Unknown" as a solo thriller with a "tired twist," they revealed more about their o…
It has been eleven years since the play "Every Brilliant Thing" penned by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, opened Off Broadway at the intimate 199 seat Barrow Street Theatre in New York.…
A Theatrical Rorschach Test: CHINESE REPUBLICANS at Roundabout Alex Lin's "Chinese Republicans" arrives at Roundabout Theatre Company with considerable ambition: a world premiere examining A…