Review: The Gently Funny 'Newton's Cradle' at New York Musical Festival
Reviews of "Newton's Cradle," "Dust Can't Kill Me," "Camp Rolling Hills" and "Ludo's Broken Bride," all part of this annual gathering.
Reviews of "Newton's Cradle," "Dust Can't Kill Me," "Camp Rolling Hills" and "Ludo's Broken Bride," all part of this annual gathering.
Uneasy relationships feature in the three one-act plays in Series B of this 59E59 Theaters festival.
Owen McCafferty's rage-filled, mournful play, an Abbey Theater in Dublin production, is about terrorism, civil war and the damage that remains after the hatred cools.
In this musical about the complex relationship between four singers, the actors raise most of the characters above the level of the script.
A critic revisiting Cape Cod in the high season muses about "The Kritik," a satire about theater, criticism and the nature of community in a small town.
"A Scythe of Time," "Icon" and "Eh Dah? Questions for My Father" investigate themes of death, love and cultural identity in funny and moving ways.
Lisa Wolpe's one-woman show, "Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender," weaves together memoir and passages from the playwright's work.
Natalie Margolin's play centers on three female college roommates whose bonds are tested by the strict rules they use for dating in the digital age.
These revivals, presented by the Potomac Theater Project, speak to contemporary politics and cultural debate.
This play wants to be many things, most of all a commentary on the American Dream, but it is dreamlike in the wrong way.
In just four years, Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols's New York-based company has become a critical darling. It's also keeping them busier than ever.
The director and designer prepares his new show, "Paradiso: Chapter 1," a suspense thriller that is also a game.
In this outdoor production of a Shakespeare classic, audience members follow the actors around through the park.
By performing it multiple times in rapid succession, flexCO turns a 17th-century farce inside out.
The Radio City show's aim seems to be selling tickets to people who would rather sit back and watch a sanitized simulation of the city.
In "The Iceman Lab, " a four-act rethinking of "The Iceman Cometh" at Here, the mood at that depressing saloon has really livened up.
"The Taming of the Shrew," now at the Delacorte Theater, reminds women of their duty to their husbands. Here's a take from a critic " and how some female directors view it.
This play, directed by Kristin Marting, emphasizes love and mourning through a collage of real online posts.
Deploying visceral images and sounds, this production at Montclair State University is a radical transfiguration of the Moses story.
Arguments among intellectuals take precedence in Mac Rogers's play, set in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War I and overstuffed with ideas.
This Jonathan Brielle musical retells the story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle as a couple and as early-20th-century iconoclasts.
Sigrid Gilmer blends time travel with runaway slaves in this comedy at the Robert Moss Theater, which features a heroic yet human Harriet Tubman.
Mr. Albo's new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.
The Irondale Ensemble explores four plays that he was writing in 1599.
This sung-through show at Axis Theater, from Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara, looks and sounds good, but the story is a murk of confusion.