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JC Lee's play about an emerging sports star, adopted from an African warzone into a white American family will keep you puzzled
- a tempting work for reexamination, but given the uneven performances, a not-so-friendly performance space and a script that feels talky and dated, the experience is anything but urgent. .
Jeff Daniels and Michell Williams still make the aptly named David Harrower's psychodrama harrowing
Martyna Majok's flair for finding humor in the hubris of her characters
A dark, different and deeply moving musical gets a fine production at the Public theater
Barry Malawer portrays the fallout from a confrontation between a white police officer and an African-American youth, 13 years of age, in a seedy park in Washington Heights
Samuel D. Hunter has crafted a deeply layered loser and Matthew Elkins, Rogue Machine's producing artistic director, embodies this Willy Loman of the Northwest with heart-rending honesty
Bobby Steggert gives a powerhouse performance in Anna Ziegler's fact-based new play
- a feverishly daffy musical parody of the disaster movie genre
a very well-written, acted, directed quintessentially New York show. It's also very, very good. . .
Lauded film star Forest Whitaker is making his Broadway debut
Finally, a smooth landing for this troubled Sondheim/Weidman musical, thanks largely to director Gary Griffin and Josh Lamon and Noah Racey as the Mizner brothers
Colman Domingo's third play in its impressive Vineyard premiere . .
Mosaic Theater Company never shies away from tough questions. Its current offering by Shachar Pinkhas and Shay Pitovsky takes a hard look at the subject of refugees.
essential and unforgettably haunting fragments
Ed Harris heads Sam Shepard's creepy American gothic family in the New Group's riveting revival.
The newest EST Sloan Project production dramatizes the Milgram obedience experiments to explore the relationship between power, responsibility, and human nature
Matthew Perry's first play about the Friends generation ten years on .
Len Cariou interweaves Shakespeare's verse with the Great American Songbook, and seasons it with tidbits of theater lore culled from his own personal history on Broadway, and beyond
Janet Schlapkohn's play is an intelligent and compelling examination of a sibling relationship which is tested not only by one sister's physical limitations, but by untenable socio-political…
the most striking aspect of Lauren Gunderson's play is the the ex machina device with which she ties things up, though audience members are bound to differ as to the effectiveness of this na…
Linda Lavin is at the top of her game, playwright Richard Greenberg not quite so muc
Brendan Gall's play is like a sensual ego-centric chess game in which the personal romances and infidelities of four friends blur into a maze of familiar film quotes, photo shots and daily r…
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The musical celebration of gangland and gambling
