Modeled on an 18th century picaresque novel, Bruce Norris's "The Low Road" on stage at the Public Theater presents the improbable adventures of a scoundrel, one Jim Trewitt, to whom an adver…
At the beginning of Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," stout, bow-tied executioner Harry Wade is about to hang an unhappy man " unhappy not just because he's innocent, but because he'll be killed …
Amy, a movie lover with Down syndrome, is able to quote the most well-worn lines from the most familiar movies " "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody" " and own them as her own…
In queens, the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but she sees it as…
In “queens,” the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but …
The lesson of #Oscars90 — Viva Mexico! " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) March 5, 2018 “The Shape of Water,” written and directed by Mexican Guillermo Del Toro, won four…
Theater lovers tend to look for members of our tribe in whatever’s happening in the world. That means in Hollywood, of course, but it also means in Parkland, Florida. The theater veter…
How much theater did you see in the first two months of 2018? How well were you paying attention to the theater news? Test your theater IQ with these 11 questions, two of them about performe…
Six shows are opening on Broadway this month, including the much anticipated  “Frozen,” and starry revivals of both “Angels in America” and “Three Tall Women…
"The Zoo Story" was Edward Albee's first play, and in a way mine too. He wrote it when he was 29, and the short one-act play launched his much-honored career as the American playwright most …
The Black Plague has just claimed another victim among the 14th century acting troupe rehearsing "Noah's Flood," when the playwright comes on stage to explain what he's trying to do with "Th…
Azeem is angry. The title character of "An Ordinary Muslim,"a British-born son of Pakistani immigrants, is angry at his wife Saima for her wanting to wear a hajib at her office, fearing that…
It's hard to know what to call "Black Light." It’s an entertainment for certain. It’s also an act of healing and an act of warning in these turbulent times. It begins: What if I …
It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as "public in…
It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as "public in…
In "Is God Is," when twin sisters Racine and Anaia hear from their mother for the first time in 18 years, it is to urge them to find and kill their father " as revenge for the fire he set th…
David Mamet has revealed in an interview in the Chicago Tribune that he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. "I was talking with my Broadway producer and he said, 'Why don't you write …
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining " at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aime…
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining " at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aime…
The announcement of forthcoming Broadway productions of Torch Song, a pioneering play about a gay character, and a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a drama about a ca…
Eller (Deirdre O’Connell) is losing her mind, and thus lives in two worlds on stage in "Terminus," a lyrical, Southern Gothic stew of a play by Gabriel Jason Dean running through March…
"There is one thing about which we all agree, left, right, center: Money has corrupted our politics," says Rep. Sydney Millsap (Eisa Davis), summing up the point and the plot of "Kings," a n…
Below is my annual Presidents Day photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. Nearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or a…
The mass shooting on Valentine's Day at a Florida high school is the latest in a long line of school shootings, some of which are instantly identifiable: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook…