As the shortest kid in his seventh grade class in a Long Island school in the 1970s, Robert Montano yearned for a way to make himself bigger, perhaps even using his diminutive stature to his…
There’s a too-muchness to Eisa Davis’s new play with music that goes beyond the overstuffed typography of the title. ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| is an evocation of female adoles…
Jean Genet’s 1947 dramatic provocation The Maids gets a new-millennium update in Kip Williams’ slick but surface-heavy new revival, now playing at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse foll…
It’s 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis, and a group of white suburban dads has signed up to connect with their young daughters, ages 9 to 12, in the YMCA program known as Indian …
Heather Christian made a name for herself with Oratorio for Living Things, a singular concert-cum-theater piece that won numerous awards after its 2022 premiere. Now Signature Theatre is mou…
Thornton Wilder has been having something of a resurgence in recent years, with acclaimed productions of his two most famous plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as a lovely mus…
Bubba Weiler’s transcendent one-act drama Well, I’ll Let You Go, which debuted last summer at Brooklyn’s The Space at Irondale, was my pick as the best New York theater production of l…
Hugh Jackman seems to be a one-man dynamo working for accessibility in live theater. Last year, he teamed with producer Sonia Freeman on a project called Together that mounts shows in Audibl…
The Receptionist, Adam Bock’s dark satire about the dark Arendtian currents in American corporate culture, returns to Off Broadway nearly a decade after its premiere in a solid, suitably c…
It’s Tony time, all you Broadway babies! The season that just wrapped was notably thin — just 30 new productions, compared to 43 last year — but there was still plenty of drama. And ha…
Director Robert Hastie’s fresh update of Hamlet arrives at BAM’s Harvey Theater with visual flair, a first-rate cast at home with the Bard’s poetry, and a decidedly modern and upbeat a…
Off Broadway’s Bedlam troupe returns to its bare-bones theatermaking roots with a production of Othello that requires its four-person cast to double (and triple and quadruple) up to play 1…
Two men break into an abandoned house and soon wind up in a standoff with guns drawn. That’s the intriguing premise at the top of Ben Andron’s misguided and muddled three-hander Broken S…
A remarkable, and in some ways remarkably strange Broadway season is winding down. The number of musicals — new musicals in particular — has been remarkably light. I’ll bet that the pr…
The British actor Jack Holden is a good-looking guy with a profound ordinariness about him: a kind and expressive face, the barest hint of a paunch, and light brown hair combed up to suggest…
The creators of The Lost Boys, the new stage musical based on the cheesy 1987 teenage-vampire flick of the same name, know what you’re thinking. Early on, the owner of the local video stor…
August Wilson is arguably the greatest American playwright of the last century. In a remarkable career, particularly the 10-play saga set in each decade of the 20th century, he chronicled th…
Is there any experience quite as unsettling as a first date? Tom Noonan’s absorbing What Happened Was… captures the hopefulness, awkwardness, and gamesmanship of an evening spent by two …
There’s something almost quaint about The Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical tribute to classic B-movies that had seemed like an outrageous one-finger salute to traditional mores when it …
More than a decade after its premiere at Virginia’s Signature Theatre, the stage adaptation of the 1988 big-screen melodrama Beaches has washed up on Broadway. Time and many years of devel…
Hell may be other people, but the most nefarious circle of Hades belongs to the neighbors who organize themselves into HOAs. David Lindsay-Abaire’s well-polished comedy The Balusters boast…
Schmigadoon!, a celebration and send-up of classic Broadway musicals that streamed for two seasons on Apple TV, has now made the inevitable if unnecessary transfer to the stage. Unlike last …
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
Even after a century on the shelf, champagne doesn't always lose its fizz. Noël Coward's bubble-light 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, back on Broadway for the first time in 70 years, is a bit …
Ayo Edibiri and Don Cheadle are two of our finest screen performers, radiating an intelligence and likability that should serve them well in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Puli…