105 stories by "Catherine Rampell"
In a little under an hour, "That Beautiful Laugh," at the Club at La MaMa, presents some astounding feats of physical comedy.
"Make Mine Manhattan," a sweet little revue first produced in 1948, is being revived at the Connelly Theater in a scaled-down version by UnsungMusicalsCo.
A slavetrader is at the mercy of a recent sale in the Abingdon Theater Company's production of "Lost on the Natchez Trace."
Andres Chulisi Rodriguez portrays two brothers in the one-man show "Growing Up Gonzales" at the Jan Hus Playhouse.
"These Seven Sicknesses," a condensed adaptation of Sophocles' seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.
"Leakey's Ladies," at Dixon Place, is a drama about the primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas and their relationship with Louis Leakey.
There is nothing escapist about "Bridesburg," in which a family suffering poverty, unemployment and hopelessness is pulled into a vortex of desperation.
Baba Brinkman has unlocked another intimidating masterpiece from the ivory tower " "The Canterbury Tales."
Seventy-some years ago, the nonstop machine-gun fire of one-liners in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" was fresh and topical. Today " in a revival at the Theater at St. Clement's " not so much.
In style and content "The Jazz Singer" is undeniably a period piece, schmaltzy and partly calcified by some dated dialogue. But its core themes endure.
Steven Boyer maintains the illusion of two simultaneous performances in "Hand to God," as a teenager and his violent and vulgar puppet alter id.
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater's stage adaptation of "Golem," uses dance, klezmer music and marionettes to tell the legend of a clay giant created to protect the Jews of Prague.
A play by Carla Ching traces two Chinese-born adopted children adrift in New York City.
"Pangs of the Messiah," at the 14th Street Y, follows a family of Zionist settlers being removed from the West Bank in 2014 as part of a fictional peace treaty.
"The Dumb Waiter," Harold Pinter's one-act play, follows two hit men killing time before targeting something more sentient.
The monologist Mike Daisey speaks about what defines a real "tech geek" and how his exposure to Chinese factories has changed his relationship with his beloved iPhone.
"Dublin by Lamplight," part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival at 59E59 Theaters, tries to juxtapose the serious with the silly.
Jen Silverman's "Crane Story" follows a woman who goes to the afterlife to speak with her brother, who committed suicide.
"Play It Cool," a new musical about a gay jazz club in 1950s Hollywood, promises mystery, scandal, provocation, eroticism and moral outrage, but it fails to deliver on any of them.
"The Lapsburgh Layover," a screwball comedy by the Berserker Residents, turns the Ars Nova Theater into a very friendly airport in a forgotten nation.
A pack of Fordham University undergraduates used their real-life technology to create their new play, "Technodoulia Dot Com."
"Sammy Gets Mugged!" has a promising concept, but the execution is a little sloppy and slow.
Somewhere within the rambling recesses of "Cow Play" there lurks a great drama.
"Gleeam" is a lively but uneven musical parody mash-up of "Glee" and the 1996 horror flick "Scream."
The Irish playwright Dermot Bolger's "Parting Glass," at the Barrow Street Theater, is about perpetual underdogs in love, sports and the economy.
