'Milk Like Sugar," Kirsten Greenidge's play about displaced dreams and misplaced values, finds the inspiration for its title in a powdered dairy substitute that's less wholesome and more art…
Eisenberg has made his name acting up as hapless nerds in films like "The Social Network" and "The Squid and the Whale." The 28-year-old star from Queens is in his comfort zone in the role h…
In the boardroom or the bedroom, if you get mixed messages or don't translate everything just right, you're sunk. And when you turn that into a cross-cultural bilingual scenario, you amplify…
In the boardroom or the bedroom, if you get mixed messages or don't translate everything just right, you're sunk. And when you turn that into a cross-cultural bilingual scenario, y…
"Where are we?" In Jesse Eisenberg's sly but slight debut play, "Asuncion," that question looms large " banner-sized, even.
The Big Apple Circus has pitched its tent at Lincoln Center for its 34th season of family-friendly treats. One of the special features of this single-ring spectacle is that the performances …
All pain, no gain. For the ill-fated Lebanese-American family in Stephen Karam's darkly funny and deeply touching play, "Sons of the Prophet," that's the way it is. In this multigenerational…
If laughter is the best medicine, the all-star authors responsible for "Relatively Speaking," three one-act comedies about family foibles, might be sued for malpractice.
Apple iPhones don't grow on trees, despite the fruity name. But where do they come from? Who makes them? And how? You've probably never even wondered about that as you've tapped away and tex…
"Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord." Thursday night, "Godspell" returned to Broadway (at Circle in the Square), so we'll be hearing Stephen Schwartz's exhilarating song heralding the arrival of…
What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s final night on Earth like in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis? Katori Hall offers a dramatic response to that question with her irreverent fantasy …
Don't judge a book by its cover or a play by its scenery. Zoe Kazan's "We Live Here," at Manhattan Theatre Club, is a forceful reminder of that advice. The production's big House Beautiful-w…
Nicky Silver's sharp-tongued and cold-hearted farce "The Lyons" follows an American family doused in dysfunction - a theme covered so thoroughly that just typing the words makes my eyelids h…
The French novella "The Little Prince" has been translated into more than 220 languages. That includes Puppet-speak. Okay, that's not a real language. But life-size puppets are an all-import…
"It's art, it's not nice." That comment, made by someone in "The Threepenny Opera," could also be said of Robert Wilson's vision of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 1928 satiric musical. As a…
Randy Graff is such a good actress she could probably make reciting Mother's Day cards sound fascinating. As it happens, Graff and three other fine actors are required to do something simila…
The rich are different. Deadly, too. They're the sort of people who prey on others, their children and each other. The prolific Adam Rapp ("Red Light Winter," "The Hallway Trilogy") says as …
Drag diva Joey Arias (above) boasts credits spanning from dim downtown clubs to the bright Las Vegas Strip, a voice that scales octaves like a surefooted Sherpa and a bod that can rock a Thi…
Connection and comfort don't come easily in works by Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Talley's Folly," who died in March at age 73.
It takes more than a juicy setup and tangy talking points to make a great play. Obviously. But it's easy to be reminded of that during "The Submission," a dramedy about a struggling New York…
In the new stage musical "Newsies," based on the 1992 big-screen Disney dud, scruffy ragamuffins go from downtrodden to triumphant.
How to put butts in theater seats? That question has been around since the toga-clad days of Aristophanes, who, as it happens, is making a comeback in a larky new musical this fall.
A fall preview of what's to come on Broadway: Season brings reborn classics and a new "Bonnie & Clyde."
Yankees superstar shortstop is all over the lineup in a downtown theater festival leading off on Wednesday. "The Derek Jeter Plays," at the Algonquin Seaport Theater on Pier 17, features six…
Dead bodies, or references to them, pop up regularly in "Perfect Crime," but judging from history, there's just no killing New York's currently longest-running play.