Lucas Iverson of The Pitt shines in an Off Broadway chiller that pipes a first-person ghost story straight into your ears, and the scares don’t stay on the page.
Bill Irwin and Rachel Bloom lead a cast of zanies in Brandon J. Dirden’s lush Broadway revival of Molière’s ‘The Imaginary Invalid.’
Andrew Durand ages backward in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ from gravel-voiced old man to mature baritone to bouncy youth
With his round face, twinkly eyes, and slight paunch, Crystal looks like his reputation: the most edgeless comic of his generation. His fans love him for just this quality, and 860 delivers …
Under the stop-and-go direction of Joshua Kahan Brody, this revival feels like an early work where Yee hasn't yet sharpened her sense of timing or the flow between comedic set pieces and the…
It’s only been 15 years since Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities premiered on New York stages. Even at that time, the show seemed like a throwback in many ways. Baitz had crafted a we…
With Triumph, Caryl Churchill proves that theater still has the power to speak boldly to the current moment -- even while evoking the wisdom and lessons of civilizations from centuries past.
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
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
Smith's monologue is fascinating, discursive, highly poetic -- and delivered with the barefoot confidence of a veteran sideman from some smoky downtown jazz club
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…