For anyone who hasn't heard of WEST SIDE STORY with its Jets and Sharks rival New York gangs or the Damon Runyon characters in GUYS AND DOLLS or the near to closing JERSEY BOYS you now have …
I should start by advising you to hasten down to The Pershing Square Signature Center to see SWEET CHARITY running through January 8th 2017.  However I am a bit late. It's …
The big question is – who of the five dead teenage choir members plus one "Baby Jane" doll-like mysterious girl who lost her head in a tragic accident on the Cyclone roller coaster in …
This new play by Nicky Silver could be subtitled REGRETS. Â In the absurd first act we find Irene (Holley Fain) and newlywed husband Martin (Michael Crane) having a face off in a room at t…
Against a backdrop of the skyline of Manhattan circa 1979 an enormous gray cube sits center stage ready to come apart and miraculously be put back together again " much like the extended fam…
Oh those idle rich. Oh how they are so easily bored. Oh how they can just as easily bore us. In this newest listless revival of Christopher Hampton's infamous adaptation of Chode…
Last time round, playwright Mike Bartlett skewered the Royal Family in King Charles III and now has tackled a royal-pain-in-the-ass-family in LOVE, LOVE, LOVE off-Broadway at the Laura Pels …
Frozen in time. And that's how Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's THE FRONT PAGE begins under the precise and rapid fire direction of Jack O'Brien who keeps this old war horse alive and k…
In Anton Chekov's tragic-comedy THE CHERRY ORCHARD aristocratic spendthrift Madame Ranevskaya (a carefree albeit uncomfortable Diane Lane) returns from Paris jilted by her lover only to face…
With all due respect my funny bone failed mightily to be tickled by this 18th century classic comedy of manners from the plumed quill of Oliver Goldsmith " adapted and directed by Scott Alan…
Two chairs. Two tables. Two actors. 80 minutes. No intermission. Additional tiered bleacher onstage seating added. Long narrow acting area. Is this a table…
Just when you think HOLIDAY INN, the new Irving Berlin Musical can't possibly get any better " it does. With an affectionate and respectful wink to the original 1942 film starring Bing C…
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney met in college. They bonded – obviously having something in common. Something that some people might consider a bizarre sense of humor. Soon after t…
Well, it sure is different. And eerie. And fascinating. And much too long. Perhaps as long as the mighty Amazon River where Mr. McBurney " who has co-conceived this oddity wi…
Take a trip back to the past with Primary Stages production of Horton Foote's pleasant and homey play at the Cherry Lane Theatre featuring six excellent actors bringing an honesty and real l…
At the Lortel. A new monologue by Neil LaBute. Lasting about one hour. About the same time a psychiatrist would allot a patient to spill ones heart out. In this case Mrs. Joh…
Tucked away in Chelsea in the 150 seat Linda Gross Theater that arose from a converted church two extremely talented performers Rebecca Naomi Jones as Marie Knight and Kecia Lewis as Sister …
WARNING: Using your cell phone may be hazardous to your "privacy" and well-being.  Seeing PRIVACY will open your eyes wide as to the numerous pitfalls and so called advantages of …
You. Are. There. Oslo, Norway.  April 1992 - September 1993. Behind closed doors. The characters are real. The situation fraught with intrigue and champagne and egos i…
Israel Horovitz is at it again. After some seventy plus plays - a new sit-com cum sex farce of sorts " a throwback to the days of avant-garde off Broadway when a slight play could be mou…
If you are going to reimagine the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice " a poor poet guitar strumming musician with a voice to die for and his ravishing but hungry counterpart as a sung-through fo…
The "buzz" (social media) way back when in the 20's was that composer Eubie Blake (Brandon Victor Dixon) and lyricist Noble Sissle (Joshua Henry) would not be remembered. They were black…
There is no escaping Donald Trump. He is everywhere. Including being referenced many times over in the mesmerizing psychological bloody musical adaptation of the 1991 novel by Bret E…
Meet the Tucks. A family that once drank water from a secret stream in Treegap, New Hampshire circa 1800 that made them immortal. To sip or not to sip? That is the question facing a …
Starring Jessie Mueller whose talents far exceed the predictable material by Jessie Nelson whose book cannot decide if it is an old fashioned musical comedy or a serious discourse dealing wi…