Dennis, the sullen and unsettling student at the center of Julia Cho's play "Office Hour" is strongly reminiscent of the real-life student Cho Seung-Hui, an English major at Virginia Polytec…
Len Cariou, one of the five performers who recently reminisced about having originated roles in musicals by Stephen Sondheim, recalls getting the script for "Sweeney Todd" and thinking "You'…
"When did money become the thing – the only thing?" a character asks at the beginning of "Junk," a play by Ayad Akhtar, who seems to answer: In the 1980s. Akhtar, the playwright of "Di…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in September and October, some of which was pleasing, much of which was disheartening or worse? Answer these 11 questions and …
The bad news hits relentlessly, from the horrific — on Halloween, New York endures the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 Â — to the ugly — accusations of sexual harassmen…
That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is fated and " 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex " familiar. But Luis Alfaro's modern adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set…
“M Butterfly” has returned to Broadway after 30 years, not so much revived as revised. It was risky for playwright David Henry Hwang to tweak his career-making, Tony-winning play…
In the five Broadway shows opening in November, Amy Schumer and Uma Thurman are making their Broadway debuts; playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Steve Martin are delivering new plays; and two shows…
At one moment in "Stuffed," a scattershot play about our disordered relationship with food, Lisa Lampanelli talks with disdain about a skinny friend of hers who turned down dessert, saying '…
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair; before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
Jason Alexander plays a Mama's boy who recently married a "Puerto Rican firecracker" half his age; Sherie Rene Scott, a twice-widowed Greek bombshell, is shacking up with a dumb, moon-struck…
This is a tennis match? There's no net, no ball, no racquet, and no final score, although the set at Roundabout's Off-Broadway theater does include a scoreboard. There is only the whoosh or …
Diller Island is back! Plans for Pier 55, Barry Diller's arts complex on the pier off 14th Street — with theatrical productions organized by such experienced hands as playwright George…
"Drugs and alcohol have never let me down. They have always loved me," Emma (Denise Gough) tells the doctor at the rehab clinic, not quite halfway through Duncan Macmillan's play. Her commen…
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
"Ferguson," a play by Phelim McAleer, presents verbatim testimony from the Grand Jury that declined to indict white Police Officer Darrell Wilson for the August 9, 2014 shooting death of bla…
In honor of the opening tonight of the revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train, and the launch of the 2017-2018 Signature residency of Stephen Adly Guirgis, below is my April, 2011 review of Gui…
“It's crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specific…
It's crazy, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specifically to his mo…
Fifty years ago, Hair was the very first show to play in the old Astor mansion, which was transformed into Joseph Papp’s first year-round Public Theater. (even though it feels like the…
Café Play is a site-specific work of theater that's being held at four different times of day in the back dining room at the Cornelia Street Café, with different food choices depending on …
In "Burning Doors," Belarus Free Theatre's latest arresting, arousing, athletic and anarchic play about state-sponsored injustice, one of the eight cast members strips naked as he tells the …
The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…