An artist has a long-lasting effect when they really connect on stage. A thoughtful gift such as flowers can express your gratitude in a manner that words cannot express. While roses are a c…
Doyle's storytelling skillfully blends didactic commentary with humorous anecdotes, holding the audience's attention throughout and resulting in a thoroughly satisfying evening of entertainm…
Conceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked." The perform…
Kristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison's "The Antiquities" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison's plays like Marjorie Prime and Log …
"Night Sings Its Songs" by Norwegian author Jon Fosse (pronounced FAH-suh), the 2023 Nobel Prize-winning playwright, explores alienation and emotional disconnection by a couple in a dysfunct…
Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo's "Still" at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture's Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo's bittersweet Still …
Bitch turns herself inside out in ways sometimes difficult to bear, particularly with her frank, anatomical language, but she communicates her joy and anguish so honestly and unflinchingly t…
Dakin Matthews' "Henry IV" is a consistently engaging gift to the theater season. Shakespeare scholars may quibble about the extent of the cuts from "Henry IV, Part II," but the reality is t…
In reading the script, I didn't see how the story made any sense or could have been given a reasonable life on stage. I was very wrong on both scores. The four actors of the ensemble breathe…
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
"What an awful name for a musical," spouts Little Sally (a brilliantly talented Pearl Scarlett Gold) as one of the narrators of the New York City Center Encores' witty production of the 2001…
Joy Behar and a rotating cast of female celebrities find humor in divorce in "My First Ex-Husband," a new show at the MMAC Theater. Â Directed by Randal Myler, the evening chronicles tales…
Foreman's dramatic structure feels like an audacious attempt to stage the tumultuous workings of the mind itself. Neurons ignite, voices both internal and external whisper, scream, and echo …
It's always fascinated me, seeing how different actors can interpret the same material. In "Sunset Boulevard," Nicole Scherzinger delivers a bold, bravura star turn I'd never have expected …
Marjan Neshat as Marjan  the teacher in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Sanaz Toossi's "English" at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Language …
The modern verse translation reasonably maintains a semblance of the Elizabethan iambic pentameter form supported by the ensemble's solid delivery of the lines. People familiar with Elizabet…
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin's "Kowalski" at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee William…
Playwright/actor Braulio Basilio may appear prophetic when we sit in horror today watching the news as a returning president maps out how he plans to deprive immigrants of any and all freedo…
Forrest Malloy's "Nina" follows five women in their last year of acting school figuring out their lives while preparing for their final production together: "The Seagull." The on-the-nose Ch…
This may not have been a typical program for the Malpaso Dance Company, but the troupe seems to lean towards the darker parts of life. As moving as each of the works are, they all painte…
Gary Gulman in his one-man show "Grandiloquent" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Michaelah Reynolds) Writer and memoirist Gary Gulman looks comfortable as that raconteur that wil…
"Sheltered" by Cate Wiley is a story about what it is to be a homeless woman in a city in the United States. As directed by Liz Peterson, this play tells the stories of these women trapped b…
Written in 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, "In the Zone" shows how group hysteria can build, as the various crew members decide that one of their own, Smitty, must be a spy…
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackso…