1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
Actors in William Burke's play describe futile searches for authenticity and originality, while dangling in a rope net.
Musical theater had a bumper year in 2015, with breakout hits such as Hamilton drawing in new crowds and renewed excitement. But is this really a new dawn or has the hype clouded the much mo…
Cort Theatre, New YorkDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin's tale of an editor in the American south who takes a young writer under her wing lacks Broadway lustreFinally,…
In this adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel, Mr. Walker is working out and absorbing his character, a smooth banker who sidelines as a killer.
Studio 54, New YorkThis joy of this musical, about two warring shop workers unwittingly conducting an epistolary romance, is how the songs deepen and contradict the conversationHungarian pas…
Atlantic Theatre Company, New YorkKenneth Lonergan once again explores the hypocrisy of likable characters in a play starring Timothy Olypahant that veers between farce, comedy and dramaStri…
This play at the New Victory Theater, set during World War II, shows the heroism of these black Army pilots and the discrimination they faced back home.
Public Theatre, New YorkThough the plot falters, this is an important show in its conviction that transgender people's social and romantic lives are as worthy of interest and empathy than an…
Clurman Theater, New York, NYBased on a real-life case of a boy raised as a girl after a dire surgical mishap, this play is sensitively acted but could go deeper into the issuesIs biology de…
Belasco Theater, New YorkA distressing, nuanced two-hander about the dangerous influence and magnetism of traumatic events, this is the most lacerating play on BroadwayIt is hard to imagine …
The performer's work, which is having an encore run at 3LD Art & Technology Center, is continually being refined.
Nederlander Theatre, New YorkSet on a floating casino hit by an earthquake (among other things), this knowingly awful musical seems more suited to a bar than BroadwayWho among us has not lon…
Westside Theater, New YorkNassim Soleimanpour's play has a different performer every night, each handed the script upon arriving onstage. Lane took up the challenge, and his performance had …
New York Theatre Workshop, New York, New YorkBeginning with the discovery of performance enhancing drugs in a locker-room, this play comes to the boil " and the lead actor deserves a medal f…
Playwrights Horizons, New YorkThe tensions between assimilation and honoring ancestry and tradition provide the subject for Danai Gurira's inconsistent but engaging playDanai Gurira's often …
Untitled Theater Company No. 61 presents an adaptation of the first novel in Paul Auster's enigmatic "New York Trilogy."
The minutiae of the pressures and games among female teachers living in close quarters at a boarding school are revealed in this Irish play from 1938.
Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New YorkTrevor Nunn turns one of Shakespeare's least-loved plays into something sumptuous and spectacular " though the seafaring plot remains ridiculousPericles …
Booth Theater, New YorkThe actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O'Neill workWhat small bliss t…
Dan O'Brien's play examines his friendship with the photojournalist Paul Watson after Mr. Watson won a Pulitzer for images of a dead American soldier.
With "Pericles" at Theater for a New Audience, Mr. Nunn is directing his 35th play out of 37 by Shakespeare.
St Ann's Warehouse, New YorkLike a folksy Waiting for Godot, this play, co-written by Rylance with the poet Louis Jenkins, is intensely charming in its cock-eyed humanityIf Samuel Beckett we…
The stage director Jack O'Brien reflects on his friendship with Mr. Nichols and the interviews for this documentary, which runs Monday on HBO.
Helen Hayes Theater, New YorkThe pressures of family, work and keeping a roof over one's head simmer slowly in this superbly acted play about a beleagered family meeting in a tumbledown apar…
This Russian production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music plants actors amid the audience to heighten a sense of trepidation and exasperation.
