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…
Since its original presentation by the New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar in 2012, Marcus Gardley's important play has been performed across the country and…
Under Lila Neugebauer's exquisite direction, the actors playing Mary Page each give intriguing performances that focus on the pastiche of one "ordinary" American facing the dangers inherent …
Under Daniel Aukin's carefully executed direction, the characters explore their individual pasts and their histories with family and friends with honesty. Their portraits are authentic.
Director Marissa Wolf and the three-member cast grapple successfully with Rinne Groff's demanding script which results in a sometimes mind-spinning tumble into the playwright's wonderland of…
Although Bertolt Brecht understood the importance and power of the comedic, his writings are overwhelmingly dark and, like a sharp scalpel, cut deeply beneath the facia into the "guts" of th…
Playwright David Ireland has pushed the plot driven by this character's maniacal temperament to the limit of moral turpitude and beyond.
Mike Lew has assembled characters whose conflicts are engaging and believable and the plot these "problems" drive is complex, layered, and relevant to the conversations about the dynamics of…
Melissa Errico gives her "split personalities" depth and authenticity and Stephen Bogardus serves as a formidable chauvinistic foil to both women.
Under Pam MacKinnon's direction, the superb cast enlivens Jordan Harrison's script as he meanders through perhaps too many issues for one play. The strength of his play lies not in the bicke…