Sick of It All"and Loving Every Minute: Molière's Hypochondriac Gets a Hilarious Check-Up Molière's final theatrical work, The Imaginary Invalid, is a scalpel-sharp satire of medicine and …
BUZZARDS, BOOTY, AND BECOMING NSangou Njikam's A Freeky Introduction soars with swagger, satire, and sacred disruption. "An eagle was born in a nest of buzzards," proclaimed playwright and p…
CHEKHOV WITH TEETH For those who've never bought the notion that Chekhov's The Seagull is simply about broken hearts, director Alexander Molochnikov's take on the play offers a thrilling, su…
GODDESS ISN'T JUST A SHOW, IT'S A CALLING. ANSWER IT. Goddess, which opened at The Public Theater tonight, doesn't just arrive onstage like any musical"but like a warm and joyful jazz riff. …
THIS ROLLING STONE JUST OPENED, AND ALREADY IT'S GATHERING MOSS If Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified were a device, it would be the BlackBerry of rock retrospectives. It is an earnest, well-…
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." ~ Oscar Wilde The Louvre, Uffizi, and Hermitage may dazzle you with their emphasis on fine arts, the British Museum …
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Walking into the New York Irish Center in Long Island City for the first time to see a show feels a bit like stumbling into a well-kept secret; it's an intimate gathering…
CHERRIES WITH A FEW PITS Anton Chekhov's final play, The Cherry Orchard, is a masterwork of dramatic irony. It was written in 1903 as a dark comedy but it was always more akin to a tragedy, …
FIERCE CRAIC A really enjoyable, light-hearted, raucous comedy just opened at The Irish Repertory Theatre: the world premiere of Irishtown by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy…
The Martha Graham Dance Company is back at The Joyce for its 99th season with a new dance concert titled Dances of the Mind, featuring 11 works across three programs through April 13, 2025. …
Brecht once said, "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times." This must have been the inspiration for A Mother, a truly amusing collect…
LIFE IS LIKE A CARTON OF EGGS; YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET UNTIL YOU CRACK ONE OPEN How do we cope with the loss of control in a crisis? Imagine two couples (one from Manhattan, …
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME SO, MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES It's the perfect time for a Urinetown revival. Twenty-four years after its successful Broadway debut, City Center's Encores! returns with …
THE BONES OF GREAT THEATER Wakka Wakka, the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning theater company, returns with Dead as a Dodo, a surreal and darkly humorous production at the Baruch Performing …
RUNNING FOR ONE'S LIFE St. Ann's Warehouse " one of the most eclectic and vibrant venues in New York " is now presenting another cutting-edge production, the North American premiere of Irani…
A SPARKLING, SPIRITED PIRATES The Pirates of Penzance is a spirited lampoon of Victorian morality, skewering its pretensions and hypocrisies while also poking fun at the lackluster operas an…
A MAGIQUE CARPET RIDE Do you need an escape from suffocating daily life? In Bushwick, across the street from Théâtre XIV, home to the best burlesque shows in the city, artistic director …
THERE'S A NEW GYPSY IN TOWN AND SHE'S STUNNING In the 1920s, Rose Thompson Hovick steamrolled her way through vaudeville and lived vicariously through her reluctant young daughters, Louise a…
PUT YOUR LIFE AND TRUST INTO THE HANDS OF LIFE AND TRUST There is a daunting immersive theater experience in Manhattan's Financial District that is also somehow prophetic. The location, 69 B…
A QUILT BLANKETED BY PREDICTABLE STITCHING Quilts always intrigued me; for millennia, women took scraps of fabric from discarded items and made quilts to be used for warmth or decorative pur…
GET READY TO CRACK SOME NUTS WIDE OPEN Christmas can be very sexy if you step into the sumptuous world of Théâtre XIV in trendy Bushwick, and catch Company XIV's neo-Baroque classic Nutc…
PREPARE TO BE SWEPT AWAY What happens when we are faced with extreme necessity? The 1884 tragic wreck of the yacht Mignonette was a cause célèbre in late 19th-century Britain, but not beca…
A GENERATIONAL GAP AND A PLAYWRITING GAP As a result of the #MeToo movement, there has been much brought to light about women working in America. But here's a note to the younger generations…
JUST AS PROMISED, IT'S BIG! IT'S GAY! IT'S JAMBOREEING! Yes, there is a way to escape the post-election blues for 90 minutes: The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Theatre is the sublimely …
A NEOLITHIC AND LEAN LEAR Shakespeare's works can be read in many ways and I have witnessed so many diverse stage interpretations that I never know what I am about to see when I venture towa…