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Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are such consummate stage performers that they could read the phone book and keep us mesmerized. As directed by Joe Mantello in Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Cli…
"Be More Chill," the dazzling and inventive musical based on the cult Young Adult novel by Ned Vizzini, has made a successful transfer to Broadway Lyceum Theater with the same cast and an ex…
Like John Doyle's reconceived musical revivals ("Allegro," "Passion," "Pacific Overtures," "Carmen Jones," "The Cradle Will Rock"), Fish's production is minimalist but with a difference. Whi…
Those who loved The Mad Ones' "Miles for Mary" which had an extended run at Playwrights Horizons last year after its premiere at The Brooklyn Starr in 2016, will be greatly disappointed by t…
Delving into black life and attitudes now, the play is hilarious - but not laugh-out-loud funny. Unfortunately, in Stevie Walker-Webb's fine production at The Public's LuEsther Theater, the …
The show also uses the 3D holographic technology called IceMagic which attempts to bring us the late Oscar Hammerstein II as a hologram enacted and spoken by actor Bob Meenan. Aside from an …
A three and half hour play with only three actors spanning 163 years might not be your idea of entertainment, but the National Theatre's production of "The Lehman Trilogy" is one of the most…
In Mara Nelson-Greenberg's new play, "Do You Feel Anger?," which had its world premiere at the 2018 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she has attempted t…
Not seen in New York since 1965, John Webster's Jacobean revenge play, "The White Devil," has been given a juicy, vigorous modern dress production by Red Bull Theater which specializes in El…
Shakespeare's politically charged Roman tragedy, "Julius Caesar," has always been a touchstone for inflaming emotions. In earlier times, monarchs used to ban the play when uprisings were imm…
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw seems to have taken literally the dictum in theater to "Astonish!" His plays like "Burning," "Intimacy," "Job," and "Fulfillment," to name only a few seen in New Y…
John Guare's career as a playwright has had three stages. His early plays were examples of Theater of the Absurd with an American accent. Later his plays became more realistic, sometimes bas…
If Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag" sounds familiar, it may be because of the cult television show now in its second season adapted from this one-woman play. Having premiered at the Edinburg…
You can hear a pin drop during Michael McKeever's "After," an exciting, riveting play about the aftereffects of bullying. During the final scene in Jo Brancato's production now at 59E59 Thea…
Although there is a great deal of talent behind the new musical Superhero at Second Stage Theater, it unfortunately makes little impact. It doesn't help that the thin book by Tony Award winn…
Huppert, the consummate actress, commands the stage at all times, making all the other performers pale in comparison. As Anne, she travels from familiar to sarcastic to manic to depressed to…
Brunstetter overloads the issue in the play by making Jen have doubts about being in love with a woman against her parents' religious teachings, even though she cannot imagine life without t…
Chisa Hutchinson's "Surely Goodness and Mercy" has its heart in the right place but as produced by Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre it is not a play at all but an after school movie scrip…
Jeremy O. Harris' "Daddy" is the work of a unique voice, a little self-indulgent in its length, and a little underwritten in its characterizations. It attempts to shock with its use of nudit…
Both plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephen…
Being described as a "theatre event," the unwieldy titled "Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex" is a throwback to the happenings and performance art of the 1960's, without h…
Molly Gordon and Colton Ryan in a scene from MCC Theater's new musical "Alice By Heart" (Photo credit: Deen van Meer) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief MCC Theater has opened its second and larg…
However, the play may not be to the taste of regular Mint theatergoers as it seems much more dated that the usual lost masterpieces rediscovered at this esteemed venue. Thomas Scott is so ri…
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning political play, "State of the Union," should be, by all accounts, dated in its depiction of the 1948 presidential political cam…
The York Theatre Company is to be applauded for taking the risk of staging this famously controversial musical in its New York premiere. It is also fulfilling its mission to bring to the sta…
