'SeaWife' - A Rocking Nautical Tale
A scene from in SeaWife (©Caitlin McNaney) A rousing new musical has docked at South Street Seaport this summer. Featuring a book by Seth Moore and music by The Lobbyists (actor-musi…
A scene from in SeaWife (©Caitlin McNaney) A rousing new musical has docked at South Street Seaport this summer. Featuring a book by Seth Moore and music by The Lobbyists (actor-musi…
Gideon Glick in Significant Other (Photo courtesy of the company) Jordan, the quirky and looking for love hero of Joshua Harrison’s new play Significant Other, can’t suppress a…
Arliss Howard, Mary McCann, and Jason Ritter in Ghost Stories: The Shawl & Prairie du Chien (©Ahron Foster) Think of the two short David Mamet plays that opened last night at Atla…
Omar Metwally and Arian Moayed in Guards at the Taj (©Doug Hamilton) Rajiv Joseph’s new play Guards at the Taj, which opened last night at the Atlantic Theater Company, unfolds l…
Josh Walden, Robert Creighton, and Jeremy Benton in Cagney (©Carol Rosegg) The new musical Cagney, playing at the York Theatre, aptly resembles the screen legend whose life story has …
Jim Parsons in An Act of God (©Jeremy Daniel) If you’ve ever had suspicions that “God has a screwed-up sense of humor,” a trip Studio 54 for David Javerbaum’s …
Denis Arndt and Mary-Louise Parker in Heisenberg (©Joan Marcus) A compelling---and surprisingly touching---fusion of scientific theory and theater takes place in Simon Stephens’…
The executive producers of the Tony Awards share the secrets that keep the award-winning "machine" of a broadcast running.
This intimate, uneven staging of Shakespeare's late romance uses only six performers, two of whom deliver sterling turns.
The precision of writer-director Patrick Harrison's "Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!" rarely fails to impress, but the slight story never seems to merit the care th...
Both the strengths and weaknesses of director John Gould Rubin's production of "Hedda Gabler" come into sharp relief in this ultra-intimate environmental staging that unfolds in the parlor o…
Shakespeare's play about abuse of power, miscarried justice, and sexual intrigue has surprisingly little heat in this production that's been touring to community groups throughout the city.
Though beautifully designed and dynamically directed and performed, Bryony Lavery's portrait of life among a group of amateur boxers has surprisingly little dramatic punch.
The Annihilation Point's Philly Sci-Fi
Though compellingly acted and handsomely staged, this rarely produced surrealistic play by Federico García Lorca remains frustratingly elusive in its meaning.
Despite a quintet of spirited performances, this rambling 1993 comedy from the Five Lesbian Brothers is a decidedly wan excursion into camp.
Kevin R. Free's post-racial comedy features some fine performances, but uneven writing and glacial pacing make it a wearisome endeavor.
Enda Walsh's latest play, which riffs on the final section of Homer's "Odyssey," combines comedy with existential drama to excellent effect.
Kim Rosenstock's dramedy is the latest from Roundabout Underground
Performer Todd Robbins serves up some chills, a few laughs, a little macabre history, and several incredible illusions in this contemporary riff on midnight spook shows.
In "White People," playwright Neil Cuthbert turns the clock back to 1975 to take a peek at a comfortably middle-class New Jersey family as its façade of respectability crumbles.
Despite a book filled with crackling zingers and some grand Cole Porter tunes, "Panama Hattie" proves to be a wearisome experience in this colorless script-in-hand staging.
The Civilians' newest documentary musical theater piece artfully serves up the issues surrounding and emotions inspired by the proposed development of the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, amusing…
Noah Galvin and Kristine Nielsen in What I Did Last Summer (©Joan Marcus) Amusing and affecting, A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer turns the clock back some 70 years to tell …
Leon Addison Brown and Caleb McLaughlin in The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (©Joan Marcus) The question of what constitutes the sum total of a man’s life lies at the center o…