Smith's monologue is fascinating, discursive, highly poetic -- and delivered with the barefoot confidence of a veteran sideman from some smoky downtown jazz club
Marin Ireland, who based the play on her own well-publicized experience with domestic violence. has written an actorly play that allows its entire cast to shine
Too often, the participatory approach to this revival turns Shakespeare's poetry into little more than a high school cheer squad's call-and-response routine.
The show, drawn from actual testimony at the Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, is both fascinating and deliberately infuriating, but the format of the show itself ca…
Damien Warren-Smith's show creates an antic sense of mayhem that may leave you gasping. Sometimes with laughter, but just as often with, "Did he just do that?" And more tellingly, "Did he j…
The immersive update of Arthur Schnitzler's 'La Ronde' presents a kind of cobblestone-sidewalk disco ballet with an athletic cast of young dancers and one of the most enchanting backdrops im…
The show re-creates the communal feeling of being in a crowded theater for a horror film, with the added benefit of having both a live audience as well as performers who feed off all that pu…
Sam Underwood, wearing a perma-frown and furrowed brow whose lines are deep enough to sow crops, plays an Ivanov who's out of place in his society as well as in this muddled production.
After a summer marked by depressing news about the state of Broadway and the early closure of acclaimed productions like Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Chess, theater fans can gear up for a fal…
There’s a lot to admire in Daniel Sullivan’s spirited new production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, now playing at the Public Theater’s Delacorte Theater in Central Pa…
The ’90s were a rough time for women in politics. During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton famously sparked a public outcry for defending her choice to pursue le…
For decades, sports culture has embraced a kind of hyper-masculinity that rejects even the appearance of softness or vulnerability. Even in 2026, a half century after the Stonewall revolutio…
Search “hiking boots” once and darned if you’re not bombarded with ads for REI, LL Bean, and Dick’s for the next month everywhere you go online. That phenomenon is at the heart of An…
Ivan Howe and Julius Rinzel are magnificent as two young altar servers whose faith is put to the test in Bubba Weiler's compelling follow-up to "Well, I'll Let You Go."
One year after breaking into the mainstream with a 2022 Netflix special, the comedian/cabaret singer Catherine Cohen suffered a stroke. She was 31, days away from a European tour, and sudden…
With ticket prices for hit Broadway shows like Oh, Mary! and Just in Time consistently topping $500 apiece, you might think that New York theater is the exclusive domain of the one percent. …
It’s rare to see a Broadway show that improves over time. Just in Time, the year-old biomusical about mid-20th-century crooner Bobby Darin, has emerged as a sprightly and delightful vehicl…
When they first meet in Mr. Harris’s year-12 philosophy class, the two characters in Benedict Lombe’s sweet but derivative two-hander Shifters feel an immediate spark. Sure, they seem to…
Revivals are a tricky thing. There are particular challenges when mounting solo pieces long associated with a single performer (who frequently is the author). In recent years, we’ve gotten…
Can we declare a moratorium on meta musicals about the act of writing a musical? I’ve admired shows like Tick, Tick… Boom!, A Strange Loop, and [title of show] but at some point one grow…
Jennifer Nettles, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter best known for her work with the alt-country duo Sugarland, is a one-woman force of nature. She not only wrote the score and book for t…
It’s a paradox of theater that the most universal emotions often arise out of situations rooted in the particulars of one culture or subculture. Jonathan Spector’s epic new dramedy Birth…
Not all movies are crying out for musical adaptation. Add to that growing list A Walk on the Moon, a middling 1999 indie drama directed by Tony Goldwyn that featured a seriously miscast Dian…
What’s remarkable about director Robert O’Hara’s new production of La Cage aux Folles is not that it features an all-Black cast, with cultural references to everyone from Beyoncé to D…
Maryann Plunkett has delivered so many extraordinary performances over the years. In her latest, Erica Murray’s intimate drama The Loved Ones, she plays a sixtysomething woman living in a …