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Origin Theatre Company's stark production of Kees Roorda's A Kid Like Rishi is a totally involving Rashomon-like take on a real-life tragedy:Â In November of 2012, 17-year-old Rishi Chand…
In four scenes spanning a few months, Ra renders his gay family trio's life events, medical situations, numerous clashes and resolutions with pungent topicality. The pandemic is referenced, …
"Romeo & Bernadette" is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman's spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score w…
James Ijames' "Fat Ham" (all puns intended) is the latest and most successful modern riff on the Bard turning Hamlet into an expression of the Black experience while at the same time having …
Written by Renee Philippi, this witty mockery of authoritarianism is derived from Friedrich Schiller's play "The Robbers" and the Korean novel "The Story of Hong Gildong." Compos…
Takiff is a skilled performer who never loses the audience no matter how angry or sardonic he gets. He is helped by the mood setting lighting of Elizabeth M. Stewart and the sound and vi…
Although playwright Anchuli Felicia King's plays have been performed in London, Washington, D.C., Staunton (Virginia), Melbourne, and Sydney, her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-nominated "Golde…
While this is not an in-depth interpretation and at times seems a bit superficial, Will Pomerantz's production of "Three Sisters" is a true ensemble making it appear that these people have l…
This premiere five-performance Off-Off-Broadway showcase run of "The Oracle" is best viewed as a tryout, and the production's presentational flaws are cited with that belief. Co-author El…
Alison Leiby's "Oh God, A Show About Abortion" is probably the most level-headed work about that much debated subject, perhaps too level-headed. While the United States is going through …
Adam Kraar's new drama, "The Karpovsky Variations," is a memory play about a dysfunctional family of driven people and the music that inspired them. Unfortunately, in its current form it is …
This charming show comes from the acclaimed Spanish troupe, Kulunka Teatro. The ensemble of Jose Dault, Garbiñe Insausti and Edu Cárcamo all offer awesome physically commanding silent …
Tony Valdovinos who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, was 18 before he found out that he was an undocumented immigrant. The new musical "¡Americano!" is based on the true story of his life and…
Based on historical facts, the new and exciting musical "Paradise Square" tells a story of fictional characters caught up in real events which lead up to the Draft Riots that occurred in Man…
Though there's two well-delineated characters and a compelling plot, "A Case for the Existence of God" plays out like a 90-minute cerebral exercise, reaching an unsatisfying pseudo-fantastic…
Alice Childress' "Wedding Band," which is a difficult play to stage due to its shifts in tone, is a major rediscovery. However, it straddles a thin line between realism and romance and its p…
The 1975 play "American Buffalo," now onstage at the Circle in the Square Theatre in a crackling revival, remains the quintessential Mamet experience, the one that should be seen to fully ap…
In "POTUS," Selina Fillinger's first Broadway comedy, all is revealed by its unwieldy subtitle ("Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive") which leaves little roo…
Liz Larsen, Dan Sharkey, Midori Nakamura and Allen McCullough in a scene from Charles Gluck's "Our Brother's Son" at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Christo…
Anyone else may find this decent show to be a tired affair which just about sustains its two-and-half-hour running time. The memory-piece book by Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel is b…
Deliriously and explicitly profane, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize winning musical, "A Strange Loop" has"unbelievably"made it to Broadway, produced by Playwrights Horizons, Page 73 and …
You would think that at the tail end of a pandemic Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" would be the perfect play for our moment. This experimental play whic…
In the 13 years that span this earnest, thought-provoking play, three weddings, fear, war, and death all serve to test the strength and sanctity of these women's bonds. Toossi's script is in…
This 2022 "Macbeth" appears to be entirely a director's project, but Sam Gold has done his actors no service with the busy activity he has added to the play. Fine actors like Daniel Craig an…
This Broadway production, a godchild of a recent 2019 production at The Public Theater (directed by Leah C. Gardiner), is directed and choreographed by modern dance luminary Camille A. Brown…
