OH, THE HUMANITY! Remember the 80s? Reaganomics here, Thatcherism abroad, apartheid, the tragedy of AIDS that ended up killing more than 700,000 people in the US alone, materialism, consumer…
GIGGLE JUICE If you love big-band jazz and swing music played by masters, or if you are a tourist and you wish to truly feel the beat of New York's roots, you must go to Birdland Jazz Club's…
Two five-star Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows are now at the Players Theatre and you don't want to miss them. Modern Witches is a solo show written and performed by Katie Kopajtic " a …
 YOU'LL SAY UNCLE Anton Chekhov's 1897 Uncle Vanya is a comic tragedy and one of the hardest plays to stage because the main actors have a significant change of identity througho…
A MEAL THAT'S HARD TO DIGEST Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons is a light, surreal play with many points and no resolutions, intentionally unclear, written by Abe Koogler and direc…
REIGNITING TAMARA DE LEMPICKA [Editor's Note: Even with tonal problems, I enjoyed Lempicka, but a crowded season won out, and the new musical officially closes on May 19, 2024. Therefore, we…
SOUND AND FURY INDEED "When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won," says a Witch to introduce my favorite cursed play by the Bard, and I immediately crave medieval witches, …
A PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE Written by Ibsen in 1882, An Enemy of the People is a powerful drama that reminds us, as a discouraging premonition, how people would go against truth and honesty…
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP Lia Romeo's Still at the DR2 Theatre, is a moving, intimate play starring two confident actors, Jayne Atkinson as Helen and Tim Daly as Mark, who inhabit…
A STEREOPHONIC SHOW WITH A MONOPHONIC SCRIPT Stereophonic was so evenly cherished by critics in its Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons that it transferred to Broadway, where it opened …
A FISH OUT OF WATER The use of drama as a didactic tool usually works when we are learning new things or seeing old things through a different lens. Kia Corthron's Fish at Theater Row sta…
PUSSY POWER How can we eradicate misogyny? Meet vagina dentata, a penis-eating vagina, the product of an ancient folk tale that exists in virtually every culture, and it has now landed at Pl…
DOG AND PONY SHOW Looking at the long line that stretched all the way to 7th Avenue to get inside the 1920s Imperial Theatre, I thought I was about to see a masterpiece. I was not familiar w…
ONE FOR THE NOTEBOOKS While specialty branded tissue boxes are sold for $5 at the merch stands, the ushers at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre should insert more in the playbill of The No…
READY FOR A HOT BATH? Staged at The Flea Theater in Manhattan between the FBI building and an apocalyptic AT&T windowless high tower, Bathhouse.pptx " described as a "group project for p…
AN ENGAGING FISHBURNE DOES A SLOW BURN Who doesn't want to see Laurence Fishburne in a solo play he describes as "The stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself"? The …
TAKING STOCK OF THE MURDOCH AFTERSHOCK: HACK. LIE. INTIMIDATE. CORRUPT. BEGIN AGAIN. Welcome to Rupert Murdoch's wicked, treacherous media empire where everybody is under surveillance and ca…
THE IDES HAVE IT It's 44 BCE, March 15, and Julius Caesar walks toward his death, changing the course of Western history. Exactly 2,067 years later, at the West End Theater in New York, a co…
FOR THOSE WHO THINK "RESCUE ME" AT JUKEBOX MUSICALS, "I KNOW A PLACE" WHERE A NEW 60s MUSICAL WILL CHANGE THAT "When you're alone, and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown,"…
GULPING FOR BREATH BETWEEN TWO-HUNDRED LAUGHS What a unique, congenial, brilliantly imaginative show! You will laugh for a very long time and, if you are a European descendant, you will feel…
WARRIOR THEATER It's the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, and one of the best ways to celebrate it is seeing a classic Chinese epic. The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is pre…
THIS TOO TOO SOLID HAMLET RESOLVES ITSELF INTO A HIT It must be the Season of different takes on the Bard in New York; Greg Mullavey is appearing in a shortened King Lear, and Patrick Page's…
A mysterious coming-of-age story that focuses on women's sexuality, written and directed by two talented artists like Rachel Bonds and Danya Taymor, was unquestionably the reason I wan…
ALIVE AND KICKING: MADDOW AND ZIMET AT PAC/NYC New York City, 1947: Julian Beck and Judith Molina found The Living Theatre, the oldest experimental group in the United States, giving life, w…
IRELAND'S GENTRY IS DISINTEGRATING IN FRIEL'S ARISTOCRATS, BUT SO IS THE DRAMA The mid-19th century, with its changing class dynamics, marked the decline of the power of aristocracy in Europ…