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…
Charlotte and Doug Walker's son Kai will be home from prison in three months to begin his court remanded probation. Kai is a white university student athlete who was convicted of raping a bl…
Because the playwright chooses to include a compendium of LGBTQ history, the script becomes didactic and cumbersome. Elise Forier Edie would have been better off allowing Trisha to take cent…
What a pleasant surprise to walk into the Studio space at Cherry Lane Theatre and see a fresh, new look developed for the exciting new production "Original Sound" by Adam Seidel. Scenic desi…
Happy talk " the type of verbal communication, replete with counterfeit smiles, that too often serves as a replacement for authentic connection between individuals " cascades across the stag…
Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a "comedic look" at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinette C…
High school junior Jeremy Heere (an awkward and amiable Will Rowland) would like his chill factor to be higher. He does not want to be "special," but he just wants "to survive." From his ope…
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
Daniel Fish's revival fails to deliver authentic characters with believable conflicts. Despite the admirable and important diverse casting choices, the characters are not interesting " they …
MIRACLE IN RWANDA " the play by Leslie Lewis and Edward Vilga " scheduled to premiere Off Broadway following an acclaimed world tour, with preview performances beginning April 4 prior to an …
As "The Mother" plays out, scene after scene " with scene/act changes indicated in projections on the back wall in French " Anne continues to give evidence of her shattered emotional state. …
Thanks to Tori Sampson's crisp writing style, it is evident from the start that the audience is being engaged in a retelling of an important Nigerian folktale. This retelling begins with a s…
The characters " all of them " are underdeveloped, mostly static, with less than interesting conflicts. So how could there possibly be an engaging plot? They seem not to care for themselves …
Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter ("This Is Us," "American Gods," The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director L…
AVENUE Q " winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical " is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at …
After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney's important and engaging "Choir Boy" closes on Sunday March 10, 2019. With o…
Afrikaans protagonist Mies Julie (Elise Kibler) and Xhosa antagonist John (James Udom), though childhood friends, are from vastly different social orders. Now in their twenties, they are sep…