At 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O'Neill's bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can't resist " the playwright's work, he says, is 'like being…
The play "The Listeners" centers on two drifters, contradictions and shifting identities.
Anton Dudley's "City Of" focuses on four Americans stumbling around Paris, and a gargoyle named Pierre.
"The Human Symphony," Dylan Marron's new play, is performed by six audience members taking instruction from MP3 tracks.
"Shesh Yak," created by Laith Nakli, is set four years ago during the first heady days of protest during the uprising in Syria.
The star of Orange is the New Black proves that she's a real theatre actor, but for all the fine performances, this is a tepid revival of a second-rate play Continue reading...
Jonathan Christenson's "Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe" opens at New World Stages.
"Da," Hugh Leonard's semi-autobiographical work, is a memory play with a spectral turn as a son is visited by his father's ghost.
St Ann's Warehouse, New YorkHaving played in London and Scotland, this stage version of the Swedish book and film has lost none of its eeriness " or its brutality Continue reading...
The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Centre for Theatre, New YorkA lo-fi version of Stephen Sondheim's classic, currently in the cinema, manages to be both lucid and moving " despite the odd bum …
Maggie Bofill's domestic comedy "Winners" stars Grant Shaud and Florencia Lozano as a couple with relationship and peanut butter problems.
"Rasheeda Speaking," by the Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson, is a dark comedy about racism both covert and obvious, and stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest.
Caps Lock Theater's immersive, site-specific "Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion" enlists its audience members as classmates.
Nederlander Theatre, New YorkDrab sets, bad politics and wince-inducing stereotypes sink this threadbare production, in which Tony Danza steals scenes but can't save themThe first rule of ga…
The Under the Radar theater festival at the Public Theater features Reggie Watt's "Audio Abramovic" and Marie-Caroline Hominal's "The Triumph of Fame."
In Andrew Schneider's inventive, astounding and inexplicably shirtless "Youarenowhere," part of the Coil festival, digital marvels synchronize with analog dance and personal revelation.
Samuel J Friedman theatre, New YorkThe play may fixate on physics, but the chemistry between the two leads is potent enough to move an audience to tearsIf the science at the center of Nick P…
Prototype festival, New YorkKansas City Choir Boy, the singer's show with composer Todd Almond, has wayward charisma and shades of The Odyssey and Kurt Weill " but there's no erotic chargeSt…
In "My Voice Has an Echo in It," by the Temporary Distortion multimedia theater company, four band members play for six hours in a room-size box walled by mirrors.
In A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, the late writer's quicksilver words are performed by a cast inundated with tennis balls"Ever try to concentr…
Stratospheric ticket prices means audiences are reluctant to take risks, so New York's hardcore theatre lovers must look enviously to the West EndSting's musical The Last Ship ends its voyag…
Pamela Katz's "The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink" is an account of "The Threepenny Opera" collaborators Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
The work of the playwright and director Tina Satter, whose "Ancient Lives" opens at the Kitchen on Wednesday, blends coziness and estrangement, weirdness and familiarity.
January, once a quiet time for downtown theater, is now busy with stage festivals, among them Coil, Prototype, Under the Radar and American Realness.
Mike Iveson, a longtime presence on the New York stage, makes his playwriting debut.