In "Entangled:12 Scenes in a Circle K off the I-40 in New Mexico," the beguiling and philosophically mischievous collaboration between Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba, the American desert becom…
What begins as a satirical clash between corporate swagger and academic idealism gradually deepens into a more unsettling inquiry. The play's true subject, it turns out, is not merely the ar…
If the show's point of view occasionally feels one-sided, that imbalance ultimately serves its chief purpose: entertainment. 'Body Count' may not function as a comprehensive treatise on cont…
Slater's performance is a revelation of synthesis. Known for his buoyant athleticism in Broadway's "SpongeBob SquarePants" and his chilling portrayal of the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald i…
Actors Kerry Ipema and Natalie Rich, joined by the live Foley artist Kelly Robinson, proceed to conjure Spielberg's dinosaur epic. They marshal an arsenal of materials so defiantly homespun …
In Lauren Yee's exuberant and stealthily devastating new comedy, "Mother Russia," history arrives not with a bang but with an order of fast food. Two young men, perched at the lip of a new w…
The premise"a radio broadcast"might seem theatrically inert, yet Rau ingeniously implicates the audience by issuing each spectator a set of headphones. We are not merely watching propaganda;…
To enter the performance space of Paul Pinto's "MANO A MANO" is to find oneself seated not before a proscenium, but around a giant Arthurian round table, a scenic choice that immediately dis…
Chang is an agile performer, and his quick shifts among characters recall the early solo work of urban shapeshifters who built entire neighborhoods out of voice and posture. Yet here the gal…
The opening gesture of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno""that immortal confession of midlife disorientation in which a wanderer finds himself astray from the "straight road" and deposited in a "da…
The afterlife has always enjoyed a sturdy tenancy on the musical stage, but "High Spirits""Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray's tuneful graft onto Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit""has, until now, …
For Heartbeat Opera's presentation of Massenet's exquisite "Manon," the co-adaptors Rory Pelsue, who also directs, and Jacob Ashworth, the company's artistic director, take a scalpel to Mass…
By loosening the moorings that usually tether one actor to one role, director and adaptor Karin Coonrod peers, with unusual intimacy, into Lear's psychic weather. The choice to distribute hi…
Anne Gridley begins "Watch Me Walk" by taking its title at punishingly literal face value. She introduces herself, grips her walking stick"never a cane, a semantic correction that quickly re…
The choreography by Toran X. Moore is exquisitely attuned to both context and cast. Moore's steps and motifs create a full canvas of movement that breathes with the beat and bends to the dem…
Sarah Kirkland Snider's first opera arrives with a confidence that feels almost paradoxical: it is at once tightly focused and lavishly expansive, a work that fixes its gaze on a single hing…
What "If We Kiss" captures, with rare delicacy, is the way young people experience such convergences as both comic and catastrophic. The play treats adolescent feeling with respect, refusing…
Greenberg's greatest achievement is his refusal to inflate or apologize for the material. He treats "The Baker's Wife" as what it is: a musical of sensibility rather than momentum, concerned…
In "BUM BUM (or, this farce has Autism)," EPIC Players"New York's indefatigable standard-bearer for neuroinclusive performance"unfurls a world premiere that feels less like a conventional ne…
In the cavernous expanse of the Park Avenue Armory, where spectacle often arrives inflated to mythic proportions, "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" materializes as a freque…
Iraisa Ann Reilly in her one-woman show "A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998" at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Photo credit: Valerie Terranova) If you venture into the …
In its final form, the piece stands as both elegy and proclamation: a testament to a heritage reclaimed, and to the fierce, necessary act of making contact"full, unguarded, and profoundly hu…
By the time the play reaches its understated yet piercing climax, the question is no longer whether ChiChi and Theodore are "right" for one another"though that question lingers"but rather wh…
If the Muppets are deployed as window dressing, the illusions themselves are a museum of inherited gestures. Lake presents the familiar canon of contemporary stage magic: the bifurcated assi…
Beneath the camp and chaos, 'Bat Boy" remains what it always was: a parable with a pulse. O'Keefe's rock-opera score jabs with wit but bleeds sincerity; his lyrics cut deep with irony and co…