In the 180 years since it was first published, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo has continued to cast its spell on readers and audiences. The French produced a pricey feature adap…
Musical theater can create stars in virtually no time at all. Consider the remarkable rise of Jasmine Amy Rogers, who scored a Tony nomination last year for her Broadway debut in the flawed …
The indie folk-rock duo known as the Bengsons have been a regular fixture on Off Broadway stages over the last decade (and even made an appearance on Broadway last year performing Stephen Me…
It's the early days of perestroika in St. Petersburg and Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat), the son of a local Communist Party boss turned budding oligarch, is struggling to please his dad with un…
David Ireland's Ulster American, now playing at the Irish Rep, is a well-crafted skewering of straight, white, male creative types of a certain age who are desperate to maintain their releva…
The theater can be like a campfire from childhood, a place where you gather in the darkness to listen to a story about things that go bump in the night. David Cale's The Unknown makes the mo…
It's not every day that Harry Potter calls you old. To be clearer, it was Daniel Radcliffe, now a bearded young dad in his mid-30s, who approached my partner and me minutes before the start …
Sophocles is having a moment. Robert Ickes' Oedipus, recently on Broadway, recast the title character as an Obama-like political upstart facing down birtherism allegations, while Lee Zeldin'…
Director/choreographer Martha Clarke made her name with a danced drama inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's symbolism-heavy 16th century masterpiece "The Garden of Earthly Delights." It's no surpr…
Ro Reddick's absurdist historical drama Cold War Choir Practice was inspired by her experience growing up in Syracuse, New York, as one of the only Black members of a Reagan-era children's c…
Millennial anxiety runs deep in Clare Barron's You Got Older, which is getting an insightful revival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Alia Shawkat stars as Mae, a thirtysomething who decides to n…
When receiving a diagnosis of cancer, it's tempting to retreat into yourself, to shut out all friends and family, and bear the burden of an uncertain future alone. Yasmine (Brooke Ishibashi)…
Wallace Shawn's best known collaboration with director André Gregory is the 1981 Louis Malle film My Dinner With André, in which the two denizens of the downtown arts scenes engage in a ra…
Organized mayhem is the overriding aesthetic of Burnout Paradise, a celebration of multitasking produced and performed by the Pony Cam theater troupe from Melbourne, Australia. Four performe…
There are laughs aplenty in the Fringey new musical Bigfoot! " which is perhaps not surprising since the book and score are by veteran comedy writer Amber Ruffin (with an assist from David S…
Noah Galvin, a former Evan Hansen on Broadway who starred in the TV shows The Real O'Neals and The Good Doctor, delivers a star-making performance in the new dramedy The Reservoir that recal…
Investment banking is not the most welcoming of industries " especially for folks who don't carry the privilege of being white and male. That familiar truth gets a fresh reworking in Alex Li…
A thread of Gen X nostalgia runs strongly through British illusionist Jamie Allan's Amaze, where the walls of the auditorium at New World Stages are lined with posters of '80s films and scre…
Who says Silicon Valley techies don't have a conscience? Matthew Libby's unbelievably timely drama Data centers on computer scientists at a firm called Athena trying to develop a top-secret …
You can see why rising Hollywood stars Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Owen Teague (IT) were drawn to Joe White two-handed drama Blackout Songs, making its New York debut at the MCC Theat…
Elevator Repair Service " the troupe best known for its eight-hour, word-for-word staged reading of The Great Gatsby " has decided to tackle another 20th-century literary classic: James Joyc…
Live theater traipses into the uncanny valley of high-tech performance capture with An Ark, a fascinating new production that outfits audience members with mixed-reality headsets that allow …
Erica Schmidt has packed her new play The Disappear with many promising elements, including some sharp insights into a middle-aged narcissist who's earned a dubious reputation as a creative …
Tracy Letts's Bug, making its Broadway debut three decades after its first performance, is a psychological thriller that has a timely prescience in David Cromer's riveting production. Carrie…
It was a remarkable year for theater in New York, even if some of my favorites didn't linger for very long. In whittling down my list, I decided to exclude some shows that transferred to Bro…