Ames Adamson and Company Credits: Joe Guerin It is a treat to see Neil Bartlett's inventive but purposefully faithful stage adaptation of "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" in …
(L-R) Angel Lin (Charlotte), Dee Hoty (Madame), Ashley Blanchet (Ella), and Rose Hemingway (Gabrielle)- photo by Jerry Dalia It won't matter very much to most audience members attending th…
Review of Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre/Upstairs
Tammy Blanchard and Jonathan Graff  Photo: Emilio Madrid-Kuser Everyone's favorite mutating carnivorous plant is in bloom again. This time back Off Broadway where it belongs and where it…
Ben Jacoby & S K Harris To give its writer William Shakespeare his due: The title of Shakespeare's comedy takes a lot for granted. With the ageless displays of invention and hig…
Amie Bermowitz and Steve Brady star in "Memoirs of a Forgotten Man" at New Jersey Repertory Company now through Sept. 15. Photo courtesy Andrea Phox I have only once ever before written a fe…
Playwright Rohina Malik has deployed elements of nearly every dramatic genre for her impassioned play "Yasmina's Necklace." From sitcom to agitprop, from farce to soap opera and from romanti…
Stunning Broadway Revival of 1980 Pinter play
(L"R) Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston (Photo: Marc Brenner) Three terrific leading actors making their Broadway debuts and a fine director's new perspective on an old play DOES…
 Real honest-to-goodness thunder, lightning and rain created premature authenticity outside the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey on the evening I attended and where N. Richard Nash's …
T L. to R. Kathy McCafferty, Kelley Rae O'Donnell, James Gushue, Wayne MaugansPhoto credit: Mike PeterOnce again blood proves to be thicker than water and certainly true in the wake of …
Jennifer Ellis and Bryant Martin"The Bridges of Madison County" may be the most purely romantic musical of our times. As re-envisioned by book writer Marsha Norman ('night, Mother") with a s…
Signature Theatre revival of Sam Shepard's ground-breaking 1978 play
(left to right) David Warshofsky and Gilles GearyPhoto Credit: Joan Marcus It is doubtful whether there will be a more spectacularly stunning opening minute for any play this season....and t…
Donnell E. Smith as Bowzie. Although I previously saw this award-winning (2017 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award) play a year ago in New York, it made a lasting impression on me, one that ma…
Maryann Plunkett, Sarah Street and Ed Malone  Photo credit: Carol RoseggIt would be very easy to be under the delusion that I was not, in fact, at the Irish Repertory Theater in NYC but …
A review of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at the Roundabout Theater
Tracy Letts and Annette Bening  (photo credit: Joan Marcus) What irony there is having productions of Arthur Miller's excellent emotions-extracting drama "All My Sons" emerge with app…
Ruth Wilson and Glenda Jackson (photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe) It is to be expected that a seasoned critic would have seen William Shakespeare's "King Lear" more than once, perhaps in …
Maryann Plunkett and Ciaran O'Reilly (photo credit: Carol Rosegg) What Sean O'Casey's political tragicomedy "Juno and the Paycock" lacks in plot, it makes up for in characterization. Und…
         Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase (photo credit: Joan Marcus)Another opening, another revival of "Kiss Me, Kate" or perhaps re- titled "Kick Me, Kate," as …
Courtesy of Joan Marcus From left: Manu Narayan, Jessie Austrian and Ben Steinfeld in 'Merrily We Roll Along' Theat It has become a pleasure for me to look forward to performances by The Fi…
Ethan Hawke and Paul DanoPhoto credit: Joan Marcus What is it about Sam Shepard's "True West" that packs a wallop each and every time I see it -- and that is four times if memory serves? Tha…
Jeremy Pope and members of the cast Photo credit: Matthew MurphyTarell Alvin McCraney's "Choir Boy" premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II in 2013. It is now in revival with exte…
Members of the supporting castphoto credit: Caitlin McNaneyOkay, so you missed this terrific show during its brief Off-Broadway run in 2012 and then perhaps missed it again when it showed up…