105 stories by "Catherine Rampell"
Anna Grace Carter's new musical, "Rent a White Guy," follows a recent college graduate who finds that being a Caucasian in China can be a good thing.
In "Bird in the Hand" the playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas chronicles the teenage years of a lonely, gay, precocious Cuban-American boy in Miami, with flamingos helping tell the tale.
Suzanna Geraghty stars in the one-woman comedy "Auditions, Zoe's Auditions Part 2," part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival.
In "The Particulars" Brian Silliman plays a persnickety young crank frustrated by the limits of household pest control.
This piece by Erin Leddy is a meditation on the dignity of aging, the fragility of memory, and the inescapability of our own mortality.
"Coriolanus" is this summer's second offering by the Drilling Company in its Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot series.
"The Last Smoker in America" has the spark of a smokin'-hot new musical, but a soggy book keeps it from ever fully igniting.
Why are reviews of plays embargoed until after opening night?
"Swing State" is a musical drama about tolerating the intolerant.
A musical adaptation of the 1985 cult horror movie doesn't stint on blood, or on laughs.
A review of a new musical about an aspiring maitre d' who journeys from Idaho to New York to make it big.
In Megan Hart's "This Is Fiction," a daughter writes a roman à clef about her dead, alcoholic mother, alarming her family, including her father.
Ethan Lipton's wine-dark satire, "Luther," looks at a society in which Americans adopt military veterans.
Susan Mosakowski's "Escape" follows three pairs of people in an apartment building, with everyone looking for a measure of liberation.
Ethan Lipton's "Luther" looks at a society in which Americans adopt military veterans.
"Take What Is Yours" is a psychological thriller about Alice Paul and the women's suffrage movement.
A 1906 adaptation of Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth," presented at Metropolitan Playhouse, displays the theatrical conventions of the melodramas of its time.
A decade after taking Broadway by storm in "Urinetown," Spencer Kayden is back in New York with a Tony nomination.
In "Eavesdropping on Dreams," presented by the Barefoot Theater Company, three generations of women alternately deny and confront a past tied to the Holocaust.
"Color Between the Lines" strives to document many of the forgotten abolitionist heroes of Brooklyn, with an emphasis on "many."
Mining the Web for material, "Blogologues: Younger Than Springtime," at the Players Theater, acts out the best bits.
In pacing, tone and general absurdities, "Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary," a sharp new comedy by Larry Kunofsky, has the feel of a David Sedaris story.
The autobiographical play "From the Same Cloth" finds Megan Auster-Rosen setting out a journey, as her father did in the 1970s.
"My Occasion of Sin," a play about race and riots in the 1960s, is laced with the tumult of that era.
"Lifeline," at the Abingdon Theater, focuses on a friendly landlord and his creepy new tenant.
