The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of "What the Constitution Means to Me: will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning pe…
Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…
Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play "Blue Ridge" currently running at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater. She drops these six d…
"Network" addresses important themes and raises equally significant enduring questions. "Network" parses the word 'network' in a variety of ways, adding richness and layered depth to the imp…
Josh Cohen's year long (Valentine's Day to Valentine's Day) struggle with the vicissitudes of life is chronicled in eleven musical numbers by an energetic and talented cast that not only sin…
In this revival of "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places " and the writi…
"India Pale Ale" remains a stalwart attempt to "see" and "understand" and to stay woke to the social injustices extant just outside (and most likely within) the doors of the theater. The cas…
The journey to achieving Arnold's commendable goals is a universal one as are the hopes and dreams of the characters in "Torch Song." One wishes for even more relevant themes for the LGBTQ+ …
Rooms full of missed opportunities sprawl across Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre where Steven Levenson's new play "Days of Rage" is running through November 2018. Mr. Levenson, the award-w…
For ninety minutes, Ms. Schreck rehearses those speeches not for prize money but to remind the audience that the Constitution has been less protective of human rights than its drafters inten…
The obvious connection to the current debate concerning the place of truth in politics plays well in "The Lifespan of a Fact." The playwrights develop their argument carefully and with the r…
DeWanda Wise and Khris Davis are electrifying in their roles as Olivia and Charles. Under Saheem Ali's poignant and surgically precise direction, Ms. Wise and Mr. Davis explore every nerve, …
"Hitler's Tasters" is also a gripping extended metaphor for how women who have been victims of sexual violence carry lifelong cultural shame that prevents them from coming forward to tell th…
"Mother Night's" themes are as important in the present as they were when Vonnegut wrote the novel. It is remarkable how relevant the important issues of white supremacism, anti-Semitism, ol…
"On Beckett" is about Bill Irwin's process and the metacognition involved in that creative process as he shares the push-pull relationship he has with existentialism's bard. This is a perfor…
Humor tempered with caring is necessary to pull off something as zany as "Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties." Less humor and more opportunities to care about these Betties seems needed he…
One would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean's "The Nap," currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortunately co…
Ms. Rebeck's compelling new play explores in depth Sarah Bernhardt's struggles with playing "Hamlet" and her compassion for being a "thinking" actor who works her craft with "feeling."
"I Was Most Alive with You" explores the complex ways we communicate with or without speaking and hearing. Whether our language is English or ASL, how we insinuate, describe, perceive, inte…
Tennessee Williams' 1979 play "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" connects deeply with all (individuals, governments, nation-states) suffering the malaise of loss or lack of identity and the q…
Currently playing at Walkerspace, The Pond Theatre Company's "The Naturalists" is a compelling look at how one's "secret" past can suddenly and unexpectedly encroach on the present and delay…
The moral turpitude of those who "consume" is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman's 1936 "Days to Come" currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre.
Under Joshua Bergasse's direction, the cast (five men and four women) fills Beowulf Boritt's towering Café set with solo numbers, duets, trios, quartets, quintets and full company numbers t…
The hype surrounding "Be More Chill," including its extensive marketing campaign, and the musical itself cannot and should not be a substitute for the real work required to discover who one …
During one of many sitcom scenes, crowded on the sofa in matching plaid pajamas provided by Ed, the father-sons quartet share Chinese takeout while trash talking, texting, and drudging up ch…