The Surgeon and Her Daughters
According to the author's note, he wrote the play to acquaint theatergoers with the "forgotten war" in Sudan. Unfortunately, as there is no backstory for the leading character the Sudanese M…
According to the author's note, he wrote the play to acquaint theatergoers with the "forgotten war" in Sudan. Unfortunately, as there is no backstory for the leading character the Sudanese M…
This World of Tomorrow resembles the films "Back to the Future" (Bert cannot risk changing anything), "Groundhog Day" for its repetition of the same events, and "You've Got Mail" in which tw…
Talene Yeghisabet Monahon's new play "Meet the Cartozians," being presented by The Second Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is simply the best new American play in New York this…
With a three-hour running time (the first act runs two hours straight without an intermission) the play is too long for its repetitiousness having the actors go over the same theater games a…
The film version starring Burt Lancaster as sleazy yet powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (similar to the notorious Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis as hungry press agent protégé Sid…
Unlike J.T. Rogers' Tony Award-winning "Oslo" which handled similar material about the secret Oslo Peace Accord conference, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson makes little concession to…
Michael Lepore as the Telegram Boy, Micaela Diamond as Sabina, Ruthie Ann Miles as Mrs. Antrobus, Geena Quintos as the Mammoth and David Ryan Smith as the Dinosaur in a scene from Ethan Lipt…
If you know the play, you many have trouble following it as several actors double: Ron Canada plays both John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (Richard's uncle and Henry Bolingbroke's father) and…
Patrick Page (back row) and Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet and Jake Berne (front row) in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Rajiv Joseph's "Archduke" at the Laura Pels …
Tom Pecinka and Marianne Rendón in a scene from Anne Washburn's "The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire" at The Vineyard Theatre (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Playwright Anne Washburn who does…
"Saturday Night Live" has made political satire look easy and has a lot to answer for. "44 " The Musical" written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, who worked on the Obama campaign in La…
Schiff's book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extreme…
In their latest, Shaw's ever-popular "Pygmalion," Staller has staged Shaw's never-used prologue created for the 1938 film version which has the gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympus recount to t…
"Reunions" is a charming new Edwardian musical made up of two classic one- act plays: James M. Barrie's 1910 "The Twelve-Pound Look" and the Quintero Brothers' 1901 "A Sunny Morning." Using …
Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Bess Wohl's "Liberation" at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Photo cre…
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Martyna Majok, who has specialized in plays about the immigrant experience like Ironbound and Sanctuary City, has revised her play Queens first seen at the …
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza's "Art" at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza's Art which is turning 31 this…
"Oh Happy Day!" demonstrates an advance of technique over Cooper's eight-scene sketch evening in "Ain't No Mo'." However, the new play is much too talky and seems to cover some of the same m…
Mark Leiren-Young's timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around t…
While Broadway was once filled with plays like this a generation or two ago, "Art of Leaving" now seems very dated. It would have been more believable set back in an earlier decade. Matt Geh…
The fourth evening of one-act plays by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Ethan Coen is coyly called "Let's Love!," when by rights it should be called "Let's Have Sex!" In three…
Although William Spatz's "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the play…
Samuel Adams as Moritz Weissmann and Ella Stevens as Lexa Kluger in a scene from the Mint Theater Company's production of the American premiere of Sally Carson's "Crooked Cross" at Theatre R…
Comedian and actor John Leguizamo's "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to b…
The Limón Dance Company is celebrating the start of its 80th Anniversary season with a triple bill at The Joyce Theater which in words of artistic director Dante Puleio celebrates "where …