Improvisational theater is comprised of different aspects of live performance genres, like stand-up comedy or fully scripted plays. But what defines improv, is how the actors use comments fr…
If you attend Studio Theatre's current production of the brilliantly acerbic White Pearl and feel in the first ten minutes that you're not sure you know what's happening, don't worry. Playwr…
PICKED, PECKED, AND PACKED Some solo shows can be valued simply for their superb simulations of someone else's story. Others succeed because we pay extra special attention when the chronicle…
It's either a relief, cause for concern, or maybe a little bit of both " but when you get to Freestyle Love Supreme, the unique and delightful show blending hip-hop and improv, you'll have t…
By Eva Phillips The tides of change are cruel in the sleepy town of Mullingar. Anthony and Rosemary neighbors nestled in the bucolic Irish farmlands, have worked tirelessly to keep their far…
Simon Woods' debut play Hansard, about the parliamentary ruling class is timely, and amusingly preceptive, but ultimately unsatisfying.
MAY HOWARDS END NEVER END "Only connect..! Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer." Seldom h…
A former producer of Yiddish Fiddler recalls his quarter-century friendship with the late legend---A Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish -- sounds crazy, no? No crazier than the story of how I, a…
Laced with one-liners and wisecracks, the one-woman show has resonated with audiences in the UK, and Thomas hopes her New York debut will encourage conversations about mental health.
Morgan James and Ellyn Marie Marsh present 'Gettin Peggy Wit It'! Peggy came to Broadway to roast the soon-to-close shows, including Be More Chill, The Prom, Pretty Woman, The Cher Show, and…
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Kathy Burke directs Amy Booth-Steel's feelgood, if cliched, chronicle of cancer and PTSD Five years ago, Amy Booth-Steel was a jobbing actor, when she was diagnosed…
The Dancehouse, ManchesterTrajal Harrell's thrilling take on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stands apart at the Manchester international festival " but more is less elsewhere Sometimes you see a danc…
Tabard hears complaints on almost a daily basis of pesky audience members interrupting performances with their mobile phones. Andrew Scott has previously
Creatures with the kind of quick wicked wit you only wish you had, the kind who rarely let pass the opportunity for a pithy exit line, populate Rich Orloff's Veronica's Position in Island Ci…
King's Head theatre, LondonKnown for her sharp tongue and love affairs, the eccentric Australian actor is celebrated in this entertaining one-woman show If the title is outrageous, so was th…
DÉJÀ VU VS. NEVERMORE A very prolific playwright, Steven Dietz can deliver dense dramatic homage. In his 2013 Mad Beat Hip & Gone, now playing at The Edge Theater Off Broadway…
On the one hand, you might consider Little Death Club as just another late night cabaret show, but on experiencing this extraordinary hour, you see that it really is more than that, somethin…
In adapting Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage, award-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin looked at the iconic characters of the recently named "best-loved" American novel with f…
CAN LOVE ENABLE EVIL? There is no last supper or cross on Golgotha but, yes, Hannah and Martin is a true passion play. What makes this even stranger is that it's as much about clashing…
Is Joshua Harmon's new play a deliberate provocation to progressives or a hypocritical use of his platform? Yes.
Do we all enjoy an exemption from moral, unselfish behavior when it comes to fighting for our own kids? It might seem we've decided otherwise " look at the righteous scorn heaped upon those …
The 20th anniversary of the mass school shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, will be on closing night for columbinus at 1st Stage. The play was written…
AFFIRMATIVE RE-ACTION Don't let the title fool you. Produced last year at Lincoln Center Theater, Admissions arrived too early to address the recent scandal involving illegal offenses in col…
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Anna Washburn's play for the Almeida achieves lift-off in the West End As China and the US arm-wrestle for world-domination in everything from trade to military power, we find ourselves in t…