1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
A proponent of expansive productions, Moira Buffini snips characters (and profanity) to get "Dying for It" into shape.
The Gowanus Canal became the hottest ticket in town, Neil Patrick Harris rocked as Hedwig and Will Eno explored life, death and love Continue reading...
A Monty Python sensibility permeates "The Messiah" in a comic oratorio based on the film "Life of Brian," at Carnegie Hall.
The Immediate Family stages a whittled-down, sexed-up and feisty version of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt."
Mark O'Rowe's word-drunk and whiskey-soaked 1999 play, "Howie the Rookie," returns, to the Fishman Space at BAM Fisher.
Kristine Haruna Lee's lively "War Lesbian," at Dixon Place, is set in a world where Ellen DeGeneres is a demonic demigod.
Booth theatre, New YorkEschewing makeup, the Hollywood star gives a bravura performance as John Merrick but Bernard Pomerance's play feels brittle and artificialPerhaps you were hoping for a…
A boy and his elderly cousin enact an annual holiday ritual in Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," adapted as a musical presented by the Irish Repertory Theater.
In the comedian Jeff Achtem's "Swamp Juice," a despicable man enjoys torturing snail, snake and bird puppets in the bayou.
Nneka Okafor, starring in Katori Hall's "Our Lady of Kibeho," talks about her star turn, religious experiences and Texas cuisine.
In "Rollo's Wild Oat," a 1920 comedy by Clare Beecher Kummer, a rich man buys his way into playing Hamlet on Broadway and then tries to win Ophelia.
Joseph Silovsky's "Send for the Million Men," based on the 1927 execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, stars his signature creation: a robot called Stanley.
The Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" moves along quickly, despite a plot loaded with details.
The Broadway musical's writer will take the lead role from 9 December to prevent it from sinking at the box office " but its problem is not lack of star power Continue reading...
The Pearl Theater revival of George Bernard Shaw's 1905 "Major Barbara," pitting poverty against wealth, is directed by David Staller.
Glenn Close, John Lithgow and Lindsay Duncan bring out the ominous, lacerating qualities in an Edward Albee play that has barely dated Continue reading...
Seven actors draw on their adolescence to animate "Punk Rock," a drama about the power, vulnerability and confusion of youth, set at a private school in England.
"The Underclassman" is adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's earliest novel, loosely based on his days at Princeton.
St James Theatre, New YorkRevived by the director of the movie version of Chicago, this story about conjoined twins never gets to the heart of what makes the two women tick Continue reading.…
Circle in the Square, New YorkJackman reels in the audience but theres plenty more to savour in Jez Butterworths moody, elegiac and fishy tale Continue reading...
The lingering theatrical convention of casting Caucasians in roles that call for Asians incites exasperation in Han Ong's play "Chairs and a Long Table."
City Center, New YorkThe stage is set for a thriller, but David Auburns play, while accurate in its portrayal of human relationships, never delivers a knockout blow Continue reading...
In Nikkole Salter's "Carnaval," three men travel to Rio de Janeiro, in an exploration of black masculinity and friendship.
Emily Padgett and Erin Davie star as the performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, in the Broadway revival of the musical "Side Show."
Two African-American executives, caught in an elevator during a building crisis, discuss matters of class and sex as well their own threatened physical safety.
