Todrick Hall’s sprawling antebellum musical ‘Midnight’ boasts gorgeous harmonies and powerhouse vocals but gets buried under its own ambition
Duncan Sheik has composed a ballad-heavy score for the show, with a clunky book by Leah Nanako Winkler that lumbers between cliché and melodrama and plays like a slightly more NSFW version …
Anne Washburn has crafted a story meant to expose a far-right mindset without digging very deep into its root causes or its effects.
Nothing quite prepared me for the ambition, humor, and overriding beauty of Good Time Charlie, a memory play that nods to classics like Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie but creates…
Like many satires, Slam Frank is too long, its punchlines too scattershot to sustain a nearly two-hour show with no intermission. Your response ultimately comes down to taste. Too often, Sl…
Ciarán O'Reilly's stylish revival benefits from an evocative set and lighting design as well as a star-making turn by Jon Beavers in the title role.
Will Brill's Kramer stalks the stage like a wild cat ready to pounce, or roar, at the least provocation - though there's something calculated in his expletive-laced outbursts, like a theater…
Savannah Commodore, as the protagonist's wise-beyond-her-years younger self, flashes remarkable self-possession while still seeming girlish and winsome. It is not a small role, and she pulls…
Degenerates transforms ripped-from-the-headlines sociology into incisive character study. This is engrossing, essential theater that should not be missed
While 'School Girls' sprays a thin mist of social commentary over its familiar story, it truly shines in the comedic set pieces.
Jacob Ming-Trent details an absorbing, often haunting journey through the darkness of his hardscrabble upbringing in lower-middle-class Pittsburgh
Igor Golyak's adaptation of Ionesco's lesser-known 1962 play is a rib-tickling, thought-provoking dark comedy for the age of doomscrolling.
There's something fresh here, and vital, an attempt to wrestle in 21st-century terms with Chekhov's themes about an economic system on the brink of collapse
Smith's monologue is fascinating, discursive, highly poetic -- and delivered with the barefoot confidence of a veteran sideman from some smoky downtown jazz club
Marin Ireland, who based the play on her own well-publicized experience with domestic violence. has written an actorly play that allows its entire cast to shine
Too often, the participatory approach to this revival turns Shakespeare's poetry into little more than a high school cheer squad's call-and-response routine.
The show, drawn from actual testimony at the Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, is both fascinating and deliberately infuriating, but the format of the show itself ca…
Damien Warren-Smith's show creates an antic sense of mayhem that may leave you gasping. Sometimes with laughter, but just as often with, "Did he just do that?" And more tellingly, "Did he j…
The immersive update of Arthur Schnitzler's 'La Ronde' presents a kind of cobblestone-sidewalk disco ballet with an athletic cast of young dancers and one of the most enchanting backdrops im…
The show re-creates the communal feeling of being in a crowded theater for a horror film, with the added benefit of having both a live audience as well as performers who feed off all that pu…
Sam Underwood, wearing a perma-frown and furrowed brow whose lines are deep enough to sow crops, plays an Ivanov who's out of place in his society as well as in this muddled production.
After a summer marked by depressing news about the state of Broadway and the early closure of acclaimed productions like Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Chess, theater fans can gear up for a fal…
There’s a lot to admire in Daniel Sullivan’s spirited new production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, now playing at the Public Theater’s Delacorte Theater in Central Pa…
The ’90s were a rough time for women in politics. During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton famously sparked a public outcry for defending her choice to pursue le…
For decades, sports culture has embraced a kind of hyper-masculinity that rejects even the appearance of softness or vulnerability. Even in 2026, a half century after the Stonewall revolutio…