Fiasco Theater’s stripped-down approach can’t rescue Susan Glaspell’s century-old drama about a botanist who rejects everyone in her path. Miriam Silverman is compelling, but The Verge…
Lauren Ambrose may be best known for playing rebellious daughter Claire in the early-aughts HBO drama Six Feet Under, but she’s made a distinguished career for herself on the New York stag…
A fixer-upper, a ticking clock, and a cursed teddy bear. Danny Robins’ puzzle-box horror play looks the part, but the jump scares overshadow the characters
Writer-director Richard Nelson's Apple family returns to the Public Theater, where a veteran ensemble turns a MAGA-era kitchen chat into a warm refuge.
Cameron Monaghan and Corey Fogelmanis play a Leopold-and-Loeb-inspired couple in The New Group’s adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play, but it lacks the suspense of Hitchcock’s film.
Steven Pasquale’s directorial debut adds classic protest songs and a cast of 10 actor-musicians to Clifford Odets’ Depression-era drama, and the outrages still resonate.
David Mendizábal’s Encores! revival of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first hit brings a new generation of golden voices to Washington Heights, but the staging doesn’t always keep pace.
Michael Arden’s cinematic revival of Aaron Sorkin’s courtroom drama stars Tom Blyth and Bradley Whitford, and it remains a crackerjack piece of storytelling.
Christopher Ashley directs a sleek, EDM-lite musical about a heart transplant, with a talented cast including Heidi Blickenstaff, but the show show stints on emotional connections.
Mona Pirnot and composer Jack D. Coen turn a thirtysomething playwright’s contemplation of her future into a 70-minute choral work that’s funny, thoughtful, and deeply moving.
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…