Playwrights Roy and Webb never lose site of the significance of the young Richard's crime. The "Guide" is not about claiming innocence. It is about Richard's sense of entitlement. His consta…
Writing a play about two iconic figures like Paul McCartney and John Lennon is risky business. Detailed information about their lives, their work, and their relationships is abundant and rea…
Jonathan Spector's "Eureka Day," currently running at Walkerspace through Saturday September 21, is a complex and thoughtful trope for the upside and downside of such moral ambiguity and cha…
Keith Hamilton Cobb has been on an urgent mission, crisscrossing the United States since 2013 performing his "American Moor." Mr. Cobb's almost-one-man-show is a trope, here an extended meta…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's groundbreaking "On Death and Dying" was first published in 1969. The Grief Cycle outlined in this book remains the standard for understanding the "stages" of bereave…
Chatillion Stage Company's "Tech Support," currently running at 59E59 Theaters, begins with the play's protagonist Pamela Stark (Margot White) frantically pacing around in her West Village w…
After a successful run at the Public's Newman Theater earlier this year, "Sea Wall / A Life" by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne opened at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on August 8th, 2019. Both ar…
Currently running at Theatre Row, Ma-Yi Theater Company's "Felix Starro" launches the Company's 30th Anniversary Season. The musical is based on Filipino-American writer Lysley Tenorio's sho…
In the first forty minutes of "Make Believe," under Michael Greif's careful direction, the young cast of four successfully provides the needed exposition for the success of the final 40 minu…
In her somewhat autobiographical play "Rinse, Repeat" which will end its extended successful run at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center on Saturday A…
The producers of the Off-Broadway return of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's landmark musical "Little Shop of Horrors" have announced that Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick ("To Kill A Mockingb…
David: Lenore, your new off-Broadway show "The Exes" officially opens on Thursday August 15th at Theatre Row. That's getting close! What are your thoughts and feelings as the opening approac…
Necromancy does not fare well in Esteban R. Alvarez III's "Just Outside the Door" which just ended its three-performance run at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The play's protagonist is…
In "Florida Man" by Michael Presley Bobbitt, a young man racked with guilt digs up his dead father William Crud (the crud of a memory John Higgins) to give him the proper Viking funeral he a…
Over the period of a year, three generations of Irish women share their stories ad seriatim while in a medical office waiting room. Amber (a spitfire Lauren O'Leary) rehearses her life from …
In a celebratory move uptown to the theater district, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, celebrating its third year in Manhattan, has announced its 2019 season lineup at Theatre Row, 410 W…
To celebrate its third year of presenting an LGBTQ+ opera in the month of June " and the 50th Anniversary of the Riots at Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn " the New York City Opera commissi…
Charlotte Moore directs the cast of "The Plough and the Stars" with a passionate commitment to excellence. Her staging brings out the best in each actor and assures that each actor's charact…
Last season, two off-Broadway plays " "Daddy" and "Slave Play" (both by Jeremy O. Harris) " highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer men and raised…
After a successful run in 2008 of the musical "Enter Laughing" a revised version of the original "So Long 174th Street" which was a Broadway flop in 1976, The York Theatre Company has revive…
There is nothing new in "Nomad Motel" and the important themes the play shrouds are ineffectively and weakly developed. The young actors give the play their very best and cannot be held acco…
Although Christopher Shinn's characters are well developed and their conflicts believable enough, the plot developed by those "problems" is not as believable and suffers from a lack of patho…
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts in Dave Malloy's a cappela musical "Octet" currently playing in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center. A…
"I can't abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role." " Jo to Meg in "Little Women" Kate Hamill's retelling of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" plays at Primary Stages at an auspiciou…
"Pretend that we're the only two people in the entire world, that's what I'm doing, and it all falls into place." " Johnny to Frankie Moonlight " the kind of light that shines into Frankie's…